Look at all Town House Suites

In order to spend an enchanting holiday in Venice you can also  decide to turn your attention to the ancient Venetian houses (house renters, residences and B&B) which have kept their charm intact, or the ones which have undergone a modern restoration nonetheless the traditional atmosphere has remained integral. In our section dedicated to B&B Locations you will have a wide range of them at your disposal. Many are the Venetians who have opened the doors of their houses to all those who love things with a story: to the lovers of walls which have seen and heard so much, and to people who love finding a mark of authenticity even in a modest room. You  can happen to have a stay in a house embellished with the traditional floors ‘alla veneziana’  and the typical sealed glass windows, created by the glass- blowers from Murano, and at the same time you can have all the

The film series, organised on the occasion of the late opening of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, will counterpoint the iconography of the show Coming of Age. American Art, 1850s to 1950s with four journeys into the world in which the average American lives and is (cinematically) immersed. More precisely, the films examina the environment of American cinema as a physical, topographical place and as a projection of desire, anxiety, nostalgia, hope and terror: four films representing the moral as well as physical models of the American soul.

2 July, 9 pm. The innocent gaze at the environment. The series begins with Edwin Porter’s classic silent film The Great Train Robbery (1903, 11 min), the first film in the history of cinema to utilize a rudimentary form of montage.

9 July, 9 pm. An impossible desire for idyllic nostalgia. Terrence Mallick’s Days of Heaven (1978, 94 min), a retrospective look at the young America of the 1910s, sees Hollywood cinema confronting the classic dichotomy of city life and country life.

16 July, 9 pm. (Rain) people on the move. With the film The Rain People (1969, 101 min), the young Francis Ford Coppola confronts the rapport between the individual and environment in flux, typical of many on the road genre films.

23 July, 9 pm. Terror on the post-atomic horizon. For this fourth “environment” an atypical film noir was chosen, one of the last of the genre of these American classics: Kiss Me Deadly (1955, 106 min) by Robert Aldrich.

On the occasion of the exhibition Coming of Age. American Art, 1850s to 1950s and thanks to the collaboration of Vodafone, the museum will introduce an innovative audio-guide that the public will be able to download, via bluetooth and fre of charge, on mobile phones. Philip Rylands, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, will thus ‘accompany’ visitors through the exhibition galleries, examine the works exhibited nad the respective artistic movements.
Audio-guides are available in English and Italian. The necessary information to dowload the audioguide is available at the ticket desk.
From June 28 to October 12, a text message service is available to receive more information on the museum.
If you would like to receive news and updates on the summer programs of the museum, please send the text message “PEGGY” to +39.340.4399.055. If you would like to download the audio-guide via GPRS prior to your arrival to the

September 14th to November 23rd, 2008

The 11th Architecture Biennale is curated by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta and it will take place in Venice (Giardini and Arsenale) from September 14th to November 23rd.
With the inclusion of Frank Gehry and Matthew Ritchie among the 21 Installations at the Arsenale Corderie, and with the addition of 15 new firms to within the section Experimental Architecture (reaching now 55 firms exhibiting) at Padiglione Italia in the Giardini, the list of participants to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition – Out There: Architecture Beyond Building has been completed.
Frank Gehry and Matthew Ritchie are the two new and prestigious presence among the Installations at Corderie dell’Arsenale, large site-specific installations questioning how can we feel “at home” in the world. The Installations will be accompanied by Manifestos focusing on an “architecture beyond building”, while Hall of Fragments by David Rockwell together with Casey Jones + Reed Kroloff will open the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
Another piece of news, the section Experimental Architecture – the survey on experimentation at Padiglione Italia, curated with the collaboration of Emiliano Gandolfi and showing architects from all over the world- is enriched by 15 more firms reaching 55 participants. This recognition will be held together by small monographic exhibition of Masters of the Experiment who based their work on experimental architecture: Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Morphosis, Zaha Hadid and Coop Himmelb(l)au.
On the second floor at Padiglione Italia, Upload City – in collaboration with Saskia van Stein – will present videos from You Tube and similar sources showing experimental architecture produced by (and for) the next generation.
Within Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, the Arsenale Artiglierie will host Uneternal City. Trent’anni da “Roma

8^th June – 21^st September 2008

On 8^th June the usual summer initiative was started by Aperol, namely the partner of Intrapresae Guggenheim Collection, which for a long time has accompanied and freshened the Sundays of the people visiting the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

From 8^th June to 21^st September, all Sunday mornings, Piero Ballarin, a creative Venetian barman, will offer the well-known ‘spritz’ to those who will decide to spend a part of their day among Picasso’s, Kandinsky’s Pollock’s, Chagall’s, Magritte’s and De Chirico’s masterpieces.

People will have the opportunity to visit the temporary exhibition Coming of Age. American Art from 1850 to 1950 which will be held by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection from 28^th June to 12^th October. Winding inside the renewed venues of the Venetian museum, this exhibition, with more than seventy works of art among which paintings and sculptures, will display a

23rd May -15th June 2008

At the Bugno Art Gallery in Campo San Fantin a one-man exhibition by Joe Tilson have been held since 23rd May: Tilson in Murano. This original and eclectic English artist is displaying, until 15th June, his glass works of art that represent the fruits of a work of observation carried out for two years in the kiln of Silvio Signoretto in Murano. His glass sculptures transmit symbolic signs in space, absorbing ancient characters as well as words of a mythical past. Such complex operation wants to show how contemporary art is able to make ancient historical expressions topical again.

Tania Danieli

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.

San Gallo Theatre, 22ndMay – 30th June 2008

Since 22nd May you have had the opportunity to visit a wonderful exhibition going back over the adventure of one of the most famous theatre tailor’s in Venice. In 2008 Stefano Nicolao, namely one of the most prolific representative of the Venetian creativity, celebrates his 25th year of activity in Venice and his 33rd year of activity as theatre tailor. The years from 1983 up to now have been a continual succession of prestigious national and international cooperation, from Venice to the Tibet and the Costume Institute of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The films ‘Marco Polo’, ‘Farinelli’, ‘Elizabeth’, ‘The Merchant of Venice’, the works ‘Don Carlos’ at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, ‘Madame Butterfly’ at the Fenice, and  others, represent just a small part of the impressive production of costumes of Nicolao’s Atelier, corresponding to a work made by starting by an iconographical and historical study, where textiles and costumes are designed, created, produced and handled by observing pictures of past times, descriptions, original parts and studies on fashion.

17th May -6th July 2008

In view of a complex strategy for increasing the value of glassware art, since Saturday 17th May 2008 Ca’ Pesaro has been holding the exhibition Sconfinamenti (Border violations) Exit – Entry and it is open to the public and can be visited with the museum ticket until 6th July 2008. Sconfinamenti exit-entry is an installation by Angelo Zennaro, and it was conceived and planned for Ca’ Pesaro. Completely hand-made by means of glass-melting technique, it represents a unique work of art in its genre for its dimensions and modalities of settlement in the architectural context. It is made of 24 glass many-coloured layers for a total surface of 24 square metres. Brittle and delicate, it is a work of art in which layers and images overlap and one is placed on top of the other one, involving the whole environment of Ca’ Pesaro: being observable from outside, it interacts with the water of the Canal Grande as well as with the light, leading our attention to the monumental Longhena entrance hall.

Glass Museum
from may 29, 2008 to september 30, 2008

FareVetro is the first exhibition organised at the Museum as the result of this partnership. Coordinated by Silvio Fuso and open to the public from 29 May to 30 September 2008, the show brings together more than one hundred examples of the art of the glass-maker. Either created specially for the event or drawn from the ‘historical’ collections of the eleven companies concerned, these are a spectacular demonstration of how techniques and design have developed within full respect of the very specific language of glass. All produced on Murano, the exhibits illustrate the skill of the master craftsmen, showing how technical and aesthetic experimentation can go together. Some the fruit of collaboration with modern artists and designers, others a return to traditional forms, each piece reflects changing tastes and the variety of production within the island’s various factories.
The exhibition will be held in the various spaces of the museum: the garden, the