Correr Museum
19th December 2009 – 11th April 2010

Drawings by Venetian artists or concerning Venice: views, monuments, glimpses, typical sketches, costumes, boats… for the most part unpublished, by author such as Caffi, Pividor, Guardi, Moro, Bosa, Vervloet and some others. Some of them will be related to / confronted with contemporary photos coming from the collections of the Venetian Civic Museums too. TD

31st December 2009
St. Mark’s Square

31st December 2009, St. Mark’s Square, Venice: Love, the new Venetian way of celebrating New Year is back and like it happened in the previous edition, it will set the heart of the city beating on one of the most important nights of the year. Once again, St.Mark’s Square will host the New Year celebrations, that will culminate in a

Come and kiss to welcome the new year.
Thursday 31st December 2009

31st December 2009, St. Mark’s Square, Venice: Love, the new Venetian way of celebrating New Year is back and like it happened in the previous edition, it will set the heart of the city beating on one of the most important nights of the year. Once again, St.Mark’s Square will host the New Year celebrations, that will

3rd December 2009 – 7th March 2009
Palazzo Franchetti

Venice will pay homage to Zoran Music, the Dalmatian artist considered among the most eminent representatives of the Twentieth century, with a great exhibition hosted at Palazzo Franchetti from 3rd December 2009 to 7th March 2010. ‘Zoran Music. Estreme figure’ celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth and it is composed of more than eighty works, among which oil paintings and works on paper, some of which are unknown and exhibited for the first time. In particular the latest thirty

10th October 2009 – 3rd January 2010
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

From Saturday 10th October Peggy Guggenheim Collection has been hosting the exhibition ‘Prendergast in Italy’, a display which, for the first time in Italy, gives the public the opportunity to admire the works by the American Post-Impressionist artist who depicted the lagoon town and Italy in its whole in a conspicuous number of artworks. It is a collection of works Prendergast made after two important trips in Italy, the first one in 1898 when he stopped also  in Padova, Firenze, Siena ,Assisi, Orvieto, Roma, Napoli

10th October 2009 – 10 January 2010
Accademia Gallery

After seven years since its last exhibition, for some days the public has had the opportunity to admire the well-known Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing ‘The Vitruvian Man’, which, nowadays, has become the icon of Western civilisation, at the Gallerie dell’Accademia.
The drawing has been stored at the Gallerie dell’Accademia since 1822, when the Austrian Government bought it, from the collector Giuseppe Bossi, from Milan, who

Until 22nd November 2009
Palazzo Zenobio

The exhibition of Francis Bacon’s designs organized for the 53rd Biennale of Venice and named ‘The peak of the iceberg’ is open until 22nd November 2009.
The exhibition presents a selected ‘corpus’ of about 20 Francis Bacon’s designs on paper of different dimensions, outlining a range of humanly monstrous characters typical of

3rd October – 3rd November 2009
Warehouse of Salt, Gardini Hall, Head Office of the Bucintoro Oarsmen Company.
For the first time in Venice, in the evocative rooms of the Sala Gardini at the Warehous of Salt, along the Zattere, there will be a personal exhibition dedicated to the Serbian artist Nikola Kolja Milunovic (Belgrado 1935). NAVE MONDO (WORLD SHIP) exhibition, open to the public from 3rd October to 3rd November 2009, presents a

A friendship tree nearly 5 metres high, made of iron dust and glass installations, celebrating the brotherhood between Venice and New York, will be the personal gift that Consorzio Promovetro, -representing the most important craft companies of Murano, and which deals with the promotion and the management of the regional trademark Murano Artistic Glassware – on 9th

from 13th September to 24th October 2009

The 15th edition of ‘The places of Baldassare’’ Galuppi and Music Festival started on 13th September 2009. It is a Music Festival which offers us the opportunity to listen to sublime classical music concerts, of the Eighteenth century repertoire but not only that, in very particular places in Venice and its estuary. Among the new locations to be visited there is the Sanctuary of the Madonna dell’Apparizione on the island of Pellestrina, the Hotel Ausonia and Hungaria, which will offer the ideal