Italian art

In Taormina, a terrace overlooking Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea leads to a house where art has coexisted with daily life for over a century. Here, the brushes, notebooks, and gazes of giants like Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway have intersected, in a creative laboratory that has shaped the Sicilian imagination. Today, that house, Casa Cuseni, is a living museum that can be visited only by reservation and in small groups, allowing visitors to truly enter the rooms and avoid being left behind a red rope.

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival returns to the Lido di Venezia in September 2026.

A 3,000-year-old poem is becoming a modern travel itinerary. Since the cinema release of the blockbuster Odyssey on 16 July, locations selected by Christopher Nolan have climbed to the top of travellers’ searches.

The award-winning director Christopher Nolan has returned with a new cinematic adaptation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, with Matt Damon in the star role. For a story so strongly rooted in a specific geographical and cultural imagination, which locations were chosen?

A Spanish collective has won the idealista Contemporary Art Prize 2026 for its project Libertà.

The Venice Biennale 2026, officially the 61st edition of the Venice Art Biennale, is one of the biggest contemporary art events in the world.Every two years, the city shifts gear: curators, critics, collectors and curious travellers all descend at once, and the atmosphere becomes part cultural pilgr

Italy’s big‑name galleries are brilliant, but once you have done the hits, they can feel crowded and predictable.

If 2026 is your big Italy year, lining up the best museums in Italy to visit makes a huge difference to how the trip feels.

Slip beyond the blockbuster sights and you’ll find Rome’s unusual attractions tucked into cloisters, courtyards and catacombs. Think keyholes framing domes, layered churches and private palazzi with quietly dazzling art.

The first ever official guide to discovering street art in Italy is here and is called "Street art in Italia. Viaggio fra luoghi e persone" - "Street art in Italy. A journey through places and people".

"Lockdown Italy, as seen by the Foreign Press" (Lockdown Italia visto dalla Stampa Estera) is the title of the photographic exhibition, curated by the Foreign Press Association in Italy which is currently on display in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitolini Museum in Rome.

L'Aquila, Todi and Venice are getting dressed up for their first festival of the arts that will take place to mark the rebirth of the cities after months of forced closure due to COVID-19. From 12th to 24th September 2020 the three Italian cities will promote the culture of the

Italy, often known as "the boot", is full of charm no matter the region. Located right in the heel of the boot is Gagliano del Capo. This small town of only 5,000 inhabitants is located at the most southern end of Salento, on the headland that separates the Adriatic and Ionian seas.

2020 will be a special year with incredible exhibitions to see all over Italy. If you are a lover of art, painting, photography or design and plan your weekends to see the latest exhibitions and collections, then this is just for you! It's time to discover the best exhibitions and events

Madrid-based creative photographer Ignacio Pereira travels the world in search of megacities to offer a different vision of reality, capturing spaces full of people and then emptying them and telling the story of a single protagonist.

With the new year begins a new season of exhibitions to be seen throughout Italy.