Summer 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

1st May – 25th July 2010
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Since 1st May 2010 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice has been exhibiting ‘Utopia Matters. From the Brotherhoods to the Bauhaus’’. On display there are more than works of art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, design items, photos and printed matter which aim at examining the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western thought and practice, by

24th April – 11th July 2010
Island of St. Giorgio, Cini Foundation

Last Saturday 24th April 2010 an exhibition dedicated to Sebastiano Ricci, titled ‘Sebastiano Ricci. The triumph of invention in the Venetian eighteenth century’ was inaugurated in Venice on the island of St Giorgio, in order to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of the well-known artist from Belluno, that Derschau described

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

Until 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

Until 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