From 27th March to 18th July 2010
Fortuny Museum, third floor

The extraordinary Koelliker Collection from Milan, one of the most important and complete in Western Europe, which can boast of an amazing nucleus of Japanese war-garments, helmets and accessories, of modern times, has been on show since 27th March 2010 on the third floor of Fortuny Museum. “Samurai” will be opened up to 18th July 2010, offering us the opportunity of admiring extraordinary examples of tosei gosoku (modern war garments) as well as learning their history and assembly techniques,

26th May – 12th June 2010
Theatre alle Tese and Theatre Piccolo Arsenale

“Capturing Emotions” is the title of the next International Festival of Dance, which will be held in Venice from 26th May to 12th June 2010. Capturing Emotions because as Ismael Ivo wanted to state, dance, “is a workshop of human emotions and shared visions”. This year the Festival will bring the works of the most innovative national and international choreographers with a particular attention to Canada and Quebec, New Zealand and Australia.

From 1st April to 20th June 2010
Galleria Franchetti – Ca’ D’oro

Galleria Franchetti at Ca’ D’oro has been always endowed with some rooms dedicated to the paintings by Flemish masters. From 1st April to 20th June 2010 the collection will be enriched with 24 drawings on the same field, coming from the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings of the Accademia Galleries. The exhibition, titled ‘ Flemish and Dutch Drawings’, will include a numerically limited but prestigious group of drawings from the from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, some of which

From 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

From 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