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• Era di Maggio 2024 all'Orto Botanico di Roma celebra Marco Polo festival-fair

  Il 4 e 5 maggio 2024, l'evento 'Era di Maggio' animerà l'Orto Botanico di Roma e la Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, con un tema ispirato al viaggio di…

• William Basinski on Time, Memory, and AI: An Interview festival-fair

  William Basinski, a pioneer of ambient/drone music, is set to perform at Jazz Is Dead! Festival in Turin on May 24, 2024, at Bunker. In an interview, he discusses his early work…

• Climate Arts Festival 2024 at Queens Botanical Garden festival-fair

  The Climate Arts Festival returns to the Queens Botanical Garden in New York on April 27, 2024, offering a program of talks, concerts, and presentations focused on nature and…

• ErosAntEros and Laibach Collaborate on Brecht's 'Santa Giovanna dei Macelli' at POLIS Festival festival-fair

  The Italian theatre company ErosAntEros, founded by director Davide Sacco and actress-playwright Agata Tomšič, premiered their multilingual production of Bertolt Brecht's 'Santa…

• PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai Returns for Ninth Edition with Focus on Softness and Strength festival-fair

  PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Asia Pacific's leading photo-based fair, runs from April 25 to 28, 2024, featuring over 150 artists from local and international galleries. Highlights include…

• Microclub launches in Reggio Emilia as new clubbing hub festival-fair

  In Reggio Emilia, a new monthly club night called Microclub launched in January 2024 at the Arci Tunnel, aiming to merge clubbing with cultural discourse. Organized by the…

• Millennial Designers at Salone del Mobile 2024: Sustainability, Dialogue, and Hybrid Practices festival-fair

  The 2024 Salone del Mobile in Milan showcased designers from the late 1980s and early 1990s with an emphasis on sustainability and collaboration. Vito Nesta (b. 1987) partnered…

• Water Light Festival 2024 in Bressanone: Light Art Meets Sustainability festival-fair

  The Water Light Festival returns to Bressanone from April 24 to May 12, 2024, illuminating the historic center and the Abbey of Novacella with 15 installations in the city and 18…

• Eugenio Bennato to perform on Grimaldi Lines' literary cruise to Barcelona festival-fair

  Italian singer-songwriter Eugenio Bennato (born Naples, 1976) will be a protagonist of Grimaldi Lines' cruise 'Una Nave di libri per Barcellona', departing from Civitavecchia on…

• Isola Design District at Milan Design Week 2024 Explores Eastern Design festival-fair

  During Milan Design Week 2024, the Isola district presents an exhibition called 'This Future is Currently Unavailable,' which questions blind faith in progress while exploring the…

• Fuorisalone 2024: Installations and Design in Milan's 5Vie District festival-fair

  During Milan Design Week, the 5Vie district in Milan's historic center hosts installations around the theme Unlimited Design Orchestra, inspired by South Korean artist Jay Sae…

• Fotofestiwal Łodź Returns for 22nd Edition with Theme of Hope, Featuring International Exhibitions on Resistance festival-fair

  The 22nd edition of Fotofestiwal Łódź is set to take place from June 15 to June 25, 2023, under the theme 'Hope', curated by Krzysztof Candrowicz and Marta Szymańska. This year's…

• Isola Design Festival 2024: 'This Future is Currently Unavailable' at Milan Design Week festival-fair

  The 2024 Milan Design Week hosted the eighth edition of the Isola Design Festival, titled 'This Future is Currently Unavailable'. This event took place across three venues: WAO…

• Savona's CONNEXXION Festival Explores Freedom Through Contemporary Art festival-fair

  The upcoming CONNEXXION festival, curated by Livia Savorelli, will take place in Savona, Italy, from April 20 to 27, 2024. This city is vying for the title of Italian Capital of…

• Fuorisalone 2024: Google and Rapt Studio Installations at Porta Venezia Design District festival-fair

  During Fuorisalone 2024, the Porta Venezia Design District in Milan hosts two US-based installations that engage visitors emotionally. At Garage 21 in via Archimede, Google's…

• SELVA Festival Brings Performance Art to Rome's Public Parks festival-fair

  SELVA, a new festival in Rome, is set to celebrate theater, dance, music, and circus arts, with the goal of fostering social connections and cultural engagement in urban parks.…

• SaloneSatellite celebrates 25 years as design talent incubator festival-fair

  The SaloneSatellite, founded and curated by Marva Griffin Wilshire, marks its 25th anniversary at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Since 1998, it has launched 14,000 young…

• Performance Cycle Inspired by Vitruvian Principles at Congo Pavilion During Venice Biennale festival-fair

  The event series named 'Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas. A new paradigm' is set to take place at the Gervasuti Foundation and Cafè Lavena during the 60th Venice Biennale, scheduled…

• Milan Design Week 2024: A Guide to the City's Top Exhibitions festival-fair

  Milan Design Week 2024 showcases a variety of exhibitions in museums and cultural venues, emphasizing design, architecture, furniture, and communication. Among the key attractions…

• Barcelona Fashion Week 2024 Held at Modernist Sant Pau Complex festival-fair

  Barcelona Fashion Week took place from April 9 to 12, 2024, organized by 080 Barcelona Fashion at the Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau, Europe's largest modernist complex designed…

• Romantica Station: Rome's Two-Day Fashion Innovation Summit festival-fair

  On April 13–14, 2024, Rome hosted the inaugural Romantica Station, a project by the Rome Chamber of Commerce to position the city as a hub for fashion innovation. Held at the Sala…

• 12 Must-See Events at the 2024 Venice Biennale festival-fair

  The 60th Venice Biennale showcases a range of events focusing on migration and collaboration. From April 21 to October 27, 2024, the Ghetto di Venezia will host a group exhibition…

• Miart 2024: Mixed Sales and Cautious Optimism at Milan Fair festival-fair

  The international modern and contemporary art fair, Miart 2024, led by Nicola Ricciardi, concluded on April 14 at Allianz MiCo in Milan. Despite a downturn in the market, the…

• Five Spring Performing Arts Festivals in Italy: April 2024 festival-fair

  Five Italian festivals spanning theatre, dance, and circus take place in April 2024. Supernova in Rimini (April 17–21), curated by Motus and Paola Granato, features national and…

• Milano Design Week 2024 District-by-District Guide festival-fair

  From April 15-21, 2024, Milano Design Week will offer programming focused on various districts. The Brera Design District will highlight more than 190 showrooms, featuring 15 new…

• Top 10 Stands at miart 2024: From Korean Fiber Art to Italian Pop festival-fair

  Directed by Nicola Ricciardi, miart 2024 highlighted ten exceptional stands. Among the notable exhibits was Soojin Kang's presentation at Gathering, which featured fiber clusters…

• Free artist film screenings at Milan's Anteo cinema during miart Art Week festival-fair

  From April 12 to 14, 2024, Anteo Palazzo del Cinema in Milan hosts 'Comete. Avanguardie di un altro sistema solare', a free artist film and video series organized by Careof and…

• NADA to Launch New Art Fair in Paris in October 2024 festival-fair

  The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), a non-profit collective founded in 2002 to support contemporary art professionals, will debut a new art fair in Paris in autumn 2024. Titled…

• 77th Cannes Film Festival announces full lineup with Coppola, Sorrentino, and Miller festival-fair

  The 77th Cannes Film Festival is set to take place from May 14 to 25, 2024, along the Croisette. The festival will kick off with Quentin Dupieux's 'Le Deuxième Acte,' featuring…

• Scarlino Park: Archaeology, Biodiversity, and the Festival Salviamo il Pianeta festival-fair

  The Parco di Scarlino, also known as Parco delle Bandite, is a protected natural reserve spanning over 60 hectares on the ridge overlooking the Gulf of Follonica in Maremma,…

• miart 2024: Nicola Ricciardi on the Fair's Most Beautiful Edition Yet festival-fair

  Nicola Ricciardi, artistic director of miart for the fourth consecutive year, declares the 2024 edition the most beautiful of recent years. The fair, organized by Fiera Milano,…

• Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 Returns to Pre-Pandemic Scale with 242 Galleries festival-fair

  Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 is taking place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre until March 30, featuring a total of 242 galleries, marking a return to pre-pandemic…

• Milano Art Week 2024 to be featured on La7's Artbox program festival-fair

  The Milano Art Week 2024, running from April 9 to 14, will be documented by the cultural TV program Artbox on La7, airing on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in late evening. The episode…

• Torino Comics 2024: Techno-Fantasy Theme and Claudio Castellini Poster festival-fair

  Torino Comics celebrates its 30th anniversary from April 12 to 14, 2024 at Lingotto Fiere in Turin. The theme is Techno-Fantasy, blending fantasy elements with advanced…

• Manifesta 15 to Decentralize Across 12 Catalan Cities festival-fair

  The 15th edition of Manifesta, the itinerant European biennial, is scheduled to take place from September 8 to November 24, 2024, in 12 cities within the Barcelona metropolitan…

• Biennale and Salone del Mobile Overlap Sparks Crisis for Italian PR Agencies festival-fair

  The coinciding dates of the Venice Biennale Arte (April 16-20) and Salone del Mobile (April 16-21), along with miart (April 12-14) and Vinitaly (April 14-17), have created a…

• RomeVideoGameLab 2024: New Venue, Showcase, and 5 Curious Indie Games festival-fair

  The 2024 edition of RomeVideoGameLab, held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, introduced a new showcase area for small studios, especially Italian ones,…

• April 2024 Cultural Festivals Across Italy festival-fair

  April 2024 will see a variety of cultural celebrations throughout Italy. The inaugural Rewind Festival takes place in Florence from April 5–7 at The Social Hub, emphasizing…

• Matteo Garrone's 'Io Capitano' Screening Tour in Senegal festival-fair

  Matteo Garrone's film 'Io Capitano', which won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 80th Venice Film Festival and is nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature,…

• Torino Film Festival 2024 celebrates Marlon Brando centenary with iconic poster festival-fair

  The 42nd Torino Film Festival will take place from November 22 to 30, 2024, honoring Marlon Brando’s 100th birthday with a poster featuring a rare 1972 image captured in Paris…