From december 2008 to january 6, 2009
The 2008 edition of Natale di Vetro (Christmas In Glass) offers you the chance to enjoy a December rich in art and culture. Take a stroll through a festive Murano where splendid glass sculptures will be on display in the most picturesque locations, visit exhibitions, be a spectator of the traditional Glassworks Regatta, or give your children the chance to try the thrill of glass making. The main routes around the island will be illuminated with Led spheres: a new, creative and ecological way to conceive traditional Christmas decorations.
But there’s more… Some of the most famous glass factories will be open to visitors to show them the real art of glassmaking, and provide the chance to try the novelty of food prepared in the glassworks. All this and the unique attractions of the island: the
Winter 2008-2009
Murano Island
The Town Council of Venice-Murano has programmed at Palazzo Mula for winter 2008-2009 various initiatives in order to present the history and the different artistic expressions of the most famous island of Venice Lagoon. In this case the attention is not focused just on glassware, that, for this reason, stops being the only form of art but at the same time it inspires the artists from Murano. The programme of ‘Palazzo Aperto’ is divided into various sections which include events of diverse kinds: ‘Murano between art and glassware’, ‘Invite to music’, ‘Objective image’, ‘Murano and the lagoon’.
Calendar of the scheduled events for these months. Admittance free. Tania Danieli
15th-27th November 2008
The art of Ermanno Nason
Exhibition of the paintings and glassware sculptures of the glassmaker Ermanno Nason
15th- 30th January 2009
From glassware art to painting as a hobby
31st December 2008
St. Mark’s Square
Also this year the event will be held in St. Mark’s Square, starting from 10.00 p.m. on 31st December. In fact ‘Love’ is back, namely the new format for the New Year’s Eve to welcome all together the year 2009. Last year nearly seventy thousand people gathered for the biggest communal kiss in the world under a spectacular scenery: luminous hearts appearing in the sky in a firework display, a rain of multicolour hearts on people and hearts again running after one another on St. Mark’s bell tower. And lots of people in love in the Square, joining a simple and magic gesture at the same time, a mark of love, brotherhood and peace. Not loud fireworks but kisses that went round the world, by a media event which has become a symbol. ‘Love’ is back and that is a good thing, it is right that the most important night of the year leaves a love mark going beyond the borders of our town in order to involve people and
from 5th June to 4th October 2009
Museo Correr, Venice
A hundred years have passed since the publication of the Manifesto of Fu
turism, the first great Italian vanguard movement that will be celebrated by three great exhibitions in Rovereto, Venice and Milan and will be supported by the Department of Cultural Activities and Heritage. Futurism 100 inaugurates its scientific programme with the exhibition of Mart of Rovereto ‘Enlightenments – Confronting vanguards. Italy, Germany, Russia (17th January – 7th June 2009). It will go on with Abstractions at Museo Correr in Venice (5th June – 4th October 2009) and it will end up with Simultaneity (15th October 2009 – 25th January 2010) at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
The project, curated by Ester Coen, represents the most wished Italian event of the Centenary celebrations, as it proposes, by means of the three exhibitions, an unknown consideration of Futurism, namely an artistic vanguard whose relationships with the most daring European experimentation of the early Nineties are still not carefully examined. Tania Danieli
Last Friday 31st October the President of the Biennale of Venice, Paolo Baratta, accompanied by the Director 
of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Daniel Birnbaum, met, in Venice, at Palazzo Querini Dubois, the people representing the Countries joining the 53rd International Contemporary Art Exhibition, which will take place from 7th June to 22nd November 2009 at the Giardini dell’Arsenale (4th, 5th and 6th June) as well as in other places in Venice. Besides Paolo Baratta stated that the Biennale has approved the project establishing that the paper contents of the Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts (ASAC), such as the historical papers, documents, books, catalogues and periodicals, will be moved to the Ala Pastor of the Pavilion Italy at the Giardini. Thus just starting from the 53rd Art Exhibition of 2009 the Pavilion Italy will be partially reorganized and beside the historical archives a didactic area will be set up in the Ala Pastor, as well
The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation has always paid a great attention to young artists. And it does that by carrying out its mission by which, for a century, it has awarded its ateliers to the worthiest artists. It is from here that ‘Opera 2008’ derives, namely a final exposition of the seven young artists and the two groups that made use of ateliers Blm in 2007/2008. besides, this year the foundation celebrates two important anniversaries: first of all the centenary of the expositive activity of such Institution, started in 1908. Since 2008, then, the ateliers have finally reached number twelve, as it has been confirmed in the memorandum of association of the Foundation. Curated by Mara Ambrozic and Stefano Coletto, the ‘Opera 2008’ exhibition is divided into two sections. In the first one there
