A major retrospective of Venice’s beloved artist Vittore Carpaccio is now open at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The exhibition, Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, is the first retrospective of his work outside Italy and runs from November 20, 2022 – February 12, […]
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The Phillips Collection in Washington DC introduces America to the work of Italian artist, Giuseppe De Nittis in the exhibition, “An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis” on view Nov 12, 2022–Feb 12, 2023. De Nittis was from the City of Barletta in Puglia and many of the […]
An exhibition at Magazzino Italian Art in New York’s scenic Hudson River Valley showcases the ecological art of Piero Gilardi. Gilardi, a member of the radical Arte Povera movement in the 1960s, began creating a series of “nature carpets” in response to Rachel’s Carson’s Silent Spring. The goal […]
Above: Installation photography of Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021, Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum; Photo by Albert Ting. Washington DC_The Smithsonian American Art Museum revisits Venice at the turn of the 20th-century in Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: […]
Americans yearning to travel to Italy can visit online through Travels with a Curator. This series of videos by the Frick Collection takes viewers through tours of places connected to their collection. Narrated by Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, (pictured above) each […]
The Vincenzo Vela Museum is one of the most important artists’ house-museums to have been erected in nineteenth-century Europe. Conceived by the great realist sculptor Vincenzo Vela from Ticino (1820-91) at the height of his career, and transformed into a public museum after it was donated to the […]