The ‘‘Belle Ferroniere’’, namely Leonardo’s masterpiece, is going to be the testimonial of the exhibition ‘The Louvre. Masterpieces in Verona. Leonardo, Rffaello, Rembrandt and others. Portraits and images’ which, on 19th September, will open at the Gran Guardia of Verona. The exhibition is the first one of a four-year project which starting from next autumn to 2011 wants to take, yearly, never seen masterpieces, coming from the greatest museums in the world, to Verona. Five are the sections of the exhibition itinerary, the first one of them will be just dedicated to the Portrayal of a society. The impressive setting up is made of about 140 works and it is part of an display project that until 2011 will see Verona holding never seen masterpieces coming from the most important museums in the world, actually from Louvre, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, from the Museum Rodinin Paris to Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and Kroller Muller Museum in Otterlo.
The exhibition holds the lead of being the first one in Europe for getting such a borrowing from Louvre Museum. Subdivided into five sections it will propose, among lots of works of art, Botticelli’s, Tiziano’s, Goya’s, El Greco’s, Ribera’s, Ingres’s, David’s, Holbein’s, Cranach’s, Veronese’s, Rembrandt’s, Fragonard’s masterpieces.
And also Velasquez and Durer, Botticelli’s ‘Sacred Motherhoods’, Bronzino, Filippino Lippi, Carracci, Poussin, Vouet. The allegorical portraits of Tiziano and Rubens. To go on with Raffaello, Gericault, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Van Dick, Guido Reni, Georges de la Tour, Ingres, Guercino, Bernini.

In 1999 the first American-style Casino was born in our country. Venice Casino at Ca’ Noghera, which opened after the shutting down of the very famous one at the Lido, contains the best of American games, but it is located inside a building which had been restored for such use but not refined enough. This year the plan for the rearrangement of the whole area will start: it is a rearrangement that will certainly concern the gaming house too.
Within 2009 Tessera is starting works for a stadium with thirty-thousand covered seats and annexed shops, trade areas, restaurants and a brand-new Las Vegas-style casino as well as a hotel with at least 350 rooms. Such buildings will be connected by a bridge and the calls for bids for the assignment of the construction of the two edifices will be shortly assigned – the Mayor of Venice Massimo Cacciari has assured. Thanks to these interventions at last the new gaming house will be able to compete seriously with the one at Nova Gorica. The total maquillage of the area of Tessera envisages works on more than two million square metres of ground.

VERONA, PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE
15th March – 29th June 2008

The exhibition, that will open on 15th March 2008, is organized at the Palazzo della Ragione in Verona and it testifies, by means of paintings, glassware and photos from the Collection of Venice Foundation, the one-hundred-year-old relationship between Venice and the Biennale.
It is a story represented by about fifty paintings, among which the works by Boccioni and the Ciardis, De Pisis and Carena, Casorati and Depero, Cagnaccio of San Pietro and Marussig, Vedova and Santomaso, Pizzinato, Tancredi and Plessi stand out.
A story rich in art events, cultural arguments, political revolutions and even sensational scandals, since the foundation, which took place in 1895, of the greatest Italian cultural institute, able to involve, every two years, more than 70 foreign countries, going through the ‘noisy’ arrival of the Futurists in Venice in 1910, the explosion of the America Pop Art in 1964, the student protest of ’68, the statutory renewal of 1973, until the events of our days.
The exhibition itinerary is made up also of about thirty Murano glassworks, placed in the historical Venetian Pavillion, among which we can find, beside those of legendary glassworkers, the works of well-known artists and designers such as Tapio Wirkkala, Carlo Scarpa and Paolo Venini. This exhibition opens with a selection of photos of the greatest protagonists of the art of the Twentieth century, who are often portrayed at work during the organization of

20th -22nd June 2008-03-18 San Giuliano Park, Venice Mestre

The Heineken Jammin Festival 2008 will be held at San Giuliano Park this year too. The headliners of edition 2008 will be the Sex Pistols, Linkin Park, Vasco Rossi and The Police. There will be also Alanis Morissette, Marlene Kuntz, Iggy P& the Stooges, Counting Crows, Chris Cornell and many others.
The area will be equipped like last year: two stages for the stars and the minor artists, areas for relax, entertainment, sport activities and internal campsite. The Councillor of Mestre Town Council, Massimo Venturini, has also announced that other two campsites outside the Park will be organized. Roberto De Luca, the President of CdA of Milano Concerti, has promised that for this year edition he wants ‘the impact on the town to be positive’ and for such reason the HJF will have a lower capacity limit than the one of last year, in order to contain the influx of fans, such as a reduction. In view of the arrival of thousands of fans, the organizers have planned a reasonably priced hospitality for everybody and they are creating a single ticket in cooperation with Trenitalia and ACTV, namely the local companies of public transport.
The tickets will cost 42 Euros + advance sale charges for a day and a three-day ticket will cost 96 Euros + advance sale charges.

Calendar
20-06-2008
h.10,00 a.m. gates opening
from 3.00 p.m. performances of Heineken Jammin Festival Contest’s winners.

IGGY & THE STOOGES