Until 28th March 2010
Civic Museum of the Eremitani, Padua

Until 28th March 2010 you will have the opportunity of visiting the exhibition ‘Caravaggio Lotto Ribera. Four centuries of masterpieces’ at the Civic Museum of the Eremitani, in Padua. It is a great exhibition with more than fifty masterpieces representing not only Italian and European painting but also the artistic tastes of one of the greatest Italian critics such as Roberto Longhi. The artworks, in fact, come from the Roberto Longhi Foundation of Florence and the exhibition, in fact, wants to pay homage to his

From 3rd to 6th July 2010 S
an Giuliano Park

Last 23rd February 2010 the extraordinary cast of the Heineken Jammin Festival 2010 was presented during a press conference at Punta San Giuliano: the Aerosmith, the Cranberries, the Massive Attack, the Black Eye Pies, the Green Day, the 30 Second to Mars, the Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, the Skunk Anansie and many others will be on the main stage of the HJF at San Giuliano Park from 3rd to 6th July 2010. All the artists will present their show on a

Piazza Brescia
21st June – 31st July 2009, every day from 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 p.m.

‘Dante’s Hell’ is the theme of the twelfth edition of the International Festival of sand sculpures which started last Friday evening in Jesolo, like every year, on the sandy beach near Piazza Brescia. The

22nd February – 23rd May 2009
Villa Pisani, Stra

The National Museum of Villa Pisani will hold, from 22nd February to 23rd May 2009, an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to Emma Ciardi and the Venetian Impressionism of a painter who, at the beginning  of the Twentieth century, at height of Futurism, chose to paint her Eighteenth century with villas and gardens, damsels and knights by means of a coloured fluttering of shot silks which, in the different shades of green, give life, in every painting, to a joy for our eyes. On display there are more than 60 artworks with unknown ones coming from private collections.
The chief protagonists of her works are above all the marvellous Villa which was built in the Eighteenth century according to the wish of the Doge of the Serenissima Almorò Pisani in Stra, along the Brenta banks,

From 12 to 22 december 2008
Venezia, Favaro, Fossò, Quarto d’Altino

The tasting dedicated to chocolate, the multi celebrated ‘food of the gods’, strengthens the common thread of Winter in Venice for purity tied to taste, generated by the genuineness of the raw and natural products. The cooperation with Slow Food Veneto guarantees the quality of the events and care for the preparations of those combinations between chocolate and other flavors presented in an attractive and new fashion. In December, villas, gardens, palaces and theatres will be transformed in warm and charming tastes laboratories, where master Chocolatiers and spices connoisseurs will reveal their secrets and will let the

From june 2 to november 2, 2008

The exhibition Mimmo Paladino at Villa Pisani is set in the magnificent Villa and in the garden, which will be a sort of prestigious stage for the sculptures and paintings of the Italian artist, along a magnificent tour showing the most charming corners of Villa Pisani, from Tiepolo’s room, to the Stables, from the Orangery to the Coffee House and to the wonderful Maze of hedges, one of the few still preserved in Europe.
The artist planned a tour with more than seventy masterpieces, from the well-known “Dormienti ai Sette Scudi”, from the tower in terra cotta, to the statues exhibited at the MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) in Rovereto, besides those expressly developed for this exhibition. He is the author of the famous salt mountain in Plebiscito Square in Naples, of the mosaic for Ara Pacis in Rome and of the permanent installation at the Hortus Conclusus in Benevento, where his works combine in a harmonic contraposition with fragments of Roman columns, capitals and broken gables. In his thirty-year career Paladino developed a timeless sign language, able to have a profound contact with the heritage of the past. Horses in essential stark lines, human shapes waiting, details suggesting cultures and environments of the most ancient and profound Italic civilization, form the lexicon of his works used by the artist to enhance the mysterious and charming atmosphere of the baroque garden of Villa Pisani.

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