Louise Bourgeois. “The fabric of drawings”.

magazzino-del-sale-vedovaUntil 19th September 2010
Foundation Emilio and Annabianca Vedova, Zattere

Until 19th September 2010 the Fondazione ‘Emilio e Annabianca Vedova’ inaugurated last year and whose machinery of display has been designed by Renzo Piano, will expand its area by adding to the Magazzino del Sale Emilio Vedova’s

“Adrift sculptures” Justin Peyser at Cà Zenobio

peyser-ca-zenobio-venice1st July – 20th November 2010

From Thursday 1st July 2010  the great sculptures by Justin Peyser have been on show in the enchanting setting of Ca’ Zenobio, a few steps away from Campo Santa Margherita, in the exhibition devoted to the artist from New York, entitled “Adrift, sculptures”, which will end on 21st November 2010. The show consists of seven flat sculptures witnessing the first period of Peyser’s artistic work and ten characters/symbols in the round, covered with

Altino: Glass of the Venetian Lagoon’ at the Archaeological National Museum

altino-vetri-laguna15th May – 30th November 2010
Archaeological National Museum, Altino

A new exhibition has been held since Saturday 15th May at the Archaeological Museum, Altino, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Museum on 29th May 1960: “Altino. Glass of the Venetian Lagoon” collects more than 400 glass finds which testify

Summer 2010: Charles Aznavour, Pat Metheny, Norah Jones in concert in St. Mark’s Square.

piazza-san-marco-concertiSummer 2010
Concerts in St. Mark’s Square and at La Fenice Theatre

This summer Charles Aznavour, Pat Metheny and Norah Jones will play in St. Mark’s Square. Pierre Cardin’s show ‘Casanova’ and Roberto Bolle are long-awaited too.

The festival will start on 12th July with the world premiere of Pierre Cardin’s production: the

Venetian Nineteenth century. Contemporary Venice

ottocento-veneziano-villa-pisaniFrom 28th March to 26th September 2010
Villa Nazionale Pisani, Stra

The exhibition wants to enhance the works of the most known painters who were educated or who taught in the classrooms of Venice Academy during the Nineteenth century and the first five-year periods of the succeeding century. Artworks covering a period of more than one century, by interacting and approaching the protagonists of the art from the Veneto, in which the different routes met in the Venetian institutional context, whose prestige has

Francesco Candeloro – City of the cities

francesco-candeloro-museo-fortunyFrom 27th  March to 18th July 2010
Fortuny Museum

Located in the large spaces on the ground floor of Fortuny Palace, which have been enlarged ad re-used recently, City of the cities is a great installation site specific by Francesco Candeloro (Venice, 1974), organized in a sequence of great works – Plexiglas two square meter laser cut strips and stamped by UV rays

Rediscovering the Museum – Murano

ritrovare-il-museoUntil 31st March 2010
Glass Museum, Murano Island

The exhibition ‘Rediscovering the Museum’, which is open from 6th February to 31st March 2010, carries on the project of the Glass Museum of Murano which aims at rediscovering and increasing the value of the collections which are not usually exposed to the public, but, nonetheless, which are particularly important and significant. After the exhibition devoted to the not very famous glassware of the early Nineteenth century (1797-1859), a difficult period for Murano glass

Jim Hodges at Bevilacqua La Masa with ‘Love, eccetera’

jim-hodges-bevilacquaUntil 5th April 2010
Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation – Gallery St. Mark’s Square

From 5th February to 5th April 2010, “Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation” has been holding the first exhibition, in an Italian public location, called ‘Love, eccetera’ dedicated to the American artist Jim Hodges. The exhibition, co-produced with the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Camden Arts Center in London, will present about sixty works by the artist, placed in the Gallery of St. Mark’s Square, offering an overview of the work and the unique world of Jim Hodges. Born in 1957 in

The Gardel’s Tango

il-tango-di-gardel-ca-pesaroFrom March 13th to May 2nd, 2010
at the Museum Cà Pesaro

The exhibition The Gardel’s Tango has been opening to the public since 13th March 2010 in the displaying rooms on the ground floor of Ca’ Pesaro Museum, and in room 10 on the first floor.  It  presents the original one hundred and nine boards painted by Jose Munoz, with screenplay by Carlos Sampayo, two of the greatest

The NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM of Venice reopens after 10 years

museo-storia-naturaleFrom 8th March 2010
Fondaco dei Turchi

After a long restoration carried out almost ten years, the Natural History Museum of Venice reopens to the public with a new and evocative exhibition layout through eleven rooms on the first floor of the Fondaco dei Turchi. Inside you can find also new reception areas on the ground floor and a garden reclaimed for the museum and the city as well as a museological approach and a museological system, both of them modern and original, and other expansion programmes.