Article date: Thursday, January 2, 2025
Vatican unveils Cartoon Mascot for Jubilee Year 2025
The Vatican on Monday launched the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, a cartoon character called Luce, whose name means "light" in Italian.
Article date: Thursday, January 2, 2025
A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting
For the first time, the Musée du Louvre is dedicating an exhibition to Cimabue, one of the most important artists of the 13th century.
Article date: Wednesday, January 1, 2025
National Archives UK release VIP Signatures of Downing Street Visitors
Three Downing Street visitor books are included in this December’s Cabinet Office file release. The red leather-bound volumes are the first ever released by the Government and provide a fascinating insight into eminent visitors passing through the doors of Number 10 between 1970-2003.
Article date: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Researchers uncover hidden Verses in the Blue Qur'an using Advanced Imaging Techniques
Researchers from Zayed National Museum have unveiled text concealed beneath an intricate decorative layer of gold leaf on a page of the Blue Qur’an - one of the world’s most well-known and recognisable Qur’an manuscripts and most important examples of Islamic calligraphy. Using multispectral imaging techniques, the team uncovered verses from Surah al Nisa’.
Article date: Monday, December 30, 2024
Egle Oddo’s Performance at the Presidential Palace in Finland
December 31st marks the end of the financial year, a crucial moment to evaluate the budget policies that will influence the near future. In terms of ugly cuts to budget, the situation seems similar in all the countries with a conservative government, in the US as in Europe. In Italy, the cultural sector continues to struggle with insufficient funding, with only 0.4% of the state budget allocated to its development.
Article date: Monday, December 30, 2024
Michelangelo Pistoletto reinterprets Caravaggio's Nativity in Palermo
The "Next" exhibition series, organized by the Amici dei Musei Siciliani association to commemorate the theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi, celebrated its 15th edition with an artwork by Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of Europe’s most renowned Italian artists and a leading figure in the Arte Povera movement.
Article date: Monday, December 30, 2024
A Petition has been launched to protect Viollet-le-Duc's Stained Glass Windows at Notre Dame de Paris
Didier Rykner, a French journalist, art historian and founder of La Tribune de l’Art, a magazine dedicated to preserving France’s heritage, has described the idea of replacing the windows as “totally ludicrous”. He has launched a petition against the plan that has already more then 250,000 signatures.
Article date: Monday, December 30, 2024
5-Star Exhibition in Paris, Olga de Amaral at Foundation Cartier
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is presenting the first major retrospective in Europe of Olga de Amaral, a key figure of the Colombian art scene and of Fiber Art.
Article date: Saturday, December 28, 2024
Damien Hirst Accused of Backdating Works for an NFT Project
Damien Hurst is a famous British artist. He has been accused of backdating works of art that were used in an NFT project. We discuss the accusations and how NFT art could fare in the current cryptocurrency rally.
Article date: Saturday, December 28, 2024
Beneath the Brushstrokes, Van Gogh’s Sky is alive with Real-World Physics
Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” depicts a swirling blue sky with yellow moon and stars. The sky is an explosion of colors and shapes, each star encapsulated in ripples of yellow, gleaming with light like reflections on water.
Article date: Saturday, December 28, 2024
Reassessing Your Brand for a Changing Marketplace
As markets evolve and consumer behaviors shift, businesses must rethink
how their brands are perceived.
Article date: Thursday, December 26, 2024
Getty presents Exploring the Alps
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Exploring the Alps, an exhibition that illustrates how 19th-century artists depicted the largest mountain range in Europe through pastels, ink sketches, watercolors, and photographs.
Article date: Thursday, December 26, 2024
The Vatican Museums go Greener
In perfect timing to receive the thousands of faithful and visitors who will flock to the Eternal City for the opening of the Jubilee Year – the glass “roof” of the Vatican Museums’ “Courtyard of the Corazze” entrance unveiled its new green and eco-friendly guise, thanks to the construction, in the record time of six months, of a roof system with latest-generation photovoltaic glass panels.
Article date: Thursday, December 26, 2024
The 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale presents Title and Theme
The Diriyah Biennale Foundation announces And all that is in between as the title for the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, set to open from January 25 until May 25, 2025 in Jeddah, a city that has represented a meeting point of cultures for centuries.
Article date: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
First Rijksmuseum Artist in Residence announced
The first Rijksmuseum Artist in Residence is Dutch-Argentinian artist Aimée Zito Lema.
Article date: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Russian Scientists discover well-preserved Baby Mammoth Remains in Siberia
Russian researchers unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in the Yakutia region of Siberia.
Article date: Monday, December 23, 2024
Greece returns 1,055 Ancient Coins to Turkey
Greece has returned a total of 1,055 ancient coins which were illegally excavated and smuggled out of Turkey, in the first such repatriation between the two countries.
Article date: Monday, December 23, 2024
Trevi Fountain reopens after Months of Renovations
Rome refilled the Trevi Fountain with water after completing maintenance works, with new limited access for visitors.
Article date: Sunday, December 22, 2024
Medici Secret Passageway in Florence reopens
Closed in 2016 to comply with safety regulations, the Vasari Corridor has been fully restored. Today, the day after the restoration works were completed, it reopens again for visits with a with a special ticket. Visitors enter through the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, walk through the core of the Ponte Vecchio, and exit at the Boboli Gardens.
Article date: Saturday, December 21, 2024
Extinction Rebellion to protest at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam over ING Sponsorship
Activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) protested at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Saturday, demanding that the museum sever its sponsorship ties with ING.
