Training, aids, museum routes: the project Musei Polisensoriali starts in Lombardy
The Polysensorial Museums project consists of three main actions: training, the creation of targeted aids and the organisation of routes in the museum premises.
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CAMeC La Spezia unveils its new Accessibility Room
On Tuesday, 3 December, on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the CAMeC – Modern and Contemporary Art Centre of La Spezia, reopened on 5 October 2024 with a renewed look, adheres to the initiative and to the theme of 2024: Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future.
The numbers of the Venice Biennale: inclusiveness in the exhibition, inclusiveness in the audience
The Venice Biennale published the report of the 2024 edition, which ended on 24 November, which showed an overall decrease in visitors, but an increase in those from underrepresented groups.
Me, the first ‘pittoressa’: a book dedicated to Lavinia Fontana
“I was from a good family, the daughter of a famous painter who adored me and of a mother who came from an illustrious dynasty of booksellers. I was obedient, but I wanted everything. I was stubborn, obstinate, tenacious. Beneath a suave and enchanted air lay an iron will’.
Egyptian artist Wael Shawky is the first director of the Fire Station in Qatar
Qatar Museums (QM), the country’s leading institution promoting cultural initiatives, has appointed internationally renowned Egyptian artist Wael Shawky as the first artistic director of the creative hub Fire Station: Artist in Residence. Shawky will oversee the institution’s programme, which to date has promoted the work of nearly one hundred emerging Qatari artists.
Julia Nesis: the breath of antiquity in the contemporary world
Artist, graphic designer, and sculptor, Julia Nesis was born in Novorossiysk (Russia) in 1984, but today lives and works in the United Kingdom. She has studied in Moscow at the State University of Arts and Industry “SG Stroganov” (2004), then at the “Detali” School of Design (2010). Since 2016 she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MUA). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and held meaningful solo exhibitions, including the one at the “Promgrafika” Gallery in Moscow (2015) and “Etika Pomyati” (The Ethics of Memory, 2018) at the theater of the Moscow School of Dramatic Art.
Laura Lodigiani: giving order to the difference
Laura Lodigiani, born in Milan, graduated in set design at the Brera Academy and lives and works in Florence. She has worked in theater for public bodies and private companies, with many exhibitions and awards, her works are all over the world in public and private collections, and journalism and writing are also part of her activities.
Leonard Turzhansky: thinking and feeling through color
Exponent of Russian impressionist painting, Leonard Viktorovich Turzhansky (1874, Yekaterininburg ⸺ 1945, Moscow) «can rightly be considered an heir to Levitan’s “landscape of mood”. In his works, he expresses profound emotions, albeit held back and never overflowing. A man of few words, Turzhansky is laconic even in figurative means, preferring spacious compositions with few objects. A painter by nature, Turzhansky thinks and feels through color” the art historian Natalya Stankevich writes about him.
Antonio Crivelli: emerging from the rock, abstracting the marble
Once upon a time, there was an ancient castle in a clearing in the woods, inhabited by two castellans… This is how the story of
Petro Yemets: amazement and anguish. The evolving consequences on nature
Ukrainian self-taught painter, from 1986 to 1989 Petro Yemets worked as a liquidator in the decontamination of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster area, an experience that