From 10 March to 25 June 2012
Fortuny Palace
A wonderful exhibition dedicated to Diana Vreeland, fashion icon, famous fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, editor in chief of Vogue and special consultant for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will be opened on the 10th March 2012 at Palazzo Fortuny in Venice .
The first individual exhibition dedicated to the extraordinary and complex figure of Diana Vreeland (Paris, 1903- New York, 1989) will
From 12 to 20 May 2012
The stars of the world’s longest running sporting tournament, the America’s Cup World Series will be sailing the waters of the Venice Lagoon from 12 to 20 May 2012. The general program for the event was presented this morning at the Borsa Italiana del Turismo (BIT tourism trade fair) in Milan.
February 2nd to 26th, 2012
Palazzetto Tito
A collection of creative reworkings of legendary Moleskine notebooks by artists, architects, designers, illustrators and writers active on the international scene can be seen at Palazzetto Tito of Venice until February 26, 2012.
The Show MyDetour – Travel Notebooks is part of an international Moleskin project dedicated to young artists, students, the creative community and everyone who loves to paint, illustrate, write and create freely in their notebooks.
Until 21th, February 2012
The 2012 Venice Carnival was inaugurated by the opening in Saint Mark’s Square of the “Wine Fountain” stage machinery designed by the chief designer of La Scala of Milan, Angelo Lodi. The fountain, which will remain open until February 21, 2012, was created in honour of an old custom: taverners used to sell their products in Saint Mark’s Square right in the shadow of the Bell Tower of Saint Mark to keep the valuable wine cool, which is the origin of the Venetian expression “ombra de vin” to indicate the
From August 29 to November 25, 2012
Giardini and Arsenale
Several days ago, during a meeting with representatives of the 41 countries participating in the 13th edition of the International Architecture Exhibition, David Chipperfield, the new Director of the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale, personally announced the theme for this year’s Biennale, which runs from August 29 to November 25, 2012 at the Giardini and the Arsenale (opening
Until 21th, February 2012
Since February 4th, a massive 9-meter-high wooden has been positioned on a floating barge in Venice for Carnival 2012. This new symbol of the carnival festival, a spectacular giant machine designed by renowned artist, sculptor and Venetian mask maker Guerrino Lovato, is intended to resurrect one of the oldest Venetian traditions related to the history of the city and Carnival.
Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art
December 17th 2011 – March 11th 2012
A major retrospective was inaugurated on Saturday, December 17th, in Venice, at the Museum of Ca’ Pesaro, aimed at discovering, tracing back and documenting, through more than two hundred works – including paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings – the creative career of Gennaro Favai (Venice 1879-1958), a Venetian artist who succeeded
From November 24th 2011 to February 26th 2012
Academy Galleries
The exhibition “A Tribute to Lorenzo Lotto. Paintings from the Hermitage at the Academy Galleries” was opened in November 24th 2011 in Venice. It was made possible by the exceptional loan granted by the Museum of St. Petersburg to the Venetian galleries of two paintings rarely – if ever – seen before in Italy, namely: “the Portrait of Spouses” and the “Madonna delle Grazie“.
From February 4th to 21st 2012
THE GRAN THEATRE IN ST. MARK’S SQUARE
From 11 to 21 February 2012
This year too, on the occasion of Carnival 2012, a big Stage will be set up in St. Mark’s Square. The “Grand Theatre” will be the heart of one of the most famous events in the world. Besides the traditional shows, such as the “Angel Flight”, the “Festa delle Marie” (or “Feast of Marie”) and the “More Beautiful Mask”, it will also host performances of the most innovative companies, including
From January 2012
The Bevilacqua – La Masa Foundation is planning for 2012 an intense calendar of very interesting exhibition events.
It will start on February 2nd 2012, with two exhibitions: the one to be opened at the Gallery in St. Mark’s Square, a collective end-of-stay exhibition of the young artists currently assignees of studies; and the other, to be presented in Palazzetto Tito, a collection of
From 10 March to 25 June 2012
