Holiday Art Events Across Italy: Installations, Tours, and Fairs

A roundup of cultural events in Italy during the 2017 Christmas holidays includes light installations, historic shop tours, gallery shows, family museum activities, metro art tours, and an independent publishers' fair. In Turin, the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper by Renzo Piano features 'α-cromactive,' a light installation by Migliore+Servetto Architects, lit since November 20 as part of Luci d'artista. Genoa offers guided walks through 39 certified historic botteghe and the Circumnavigando Festival from December 26 to January 7 at Porto Antico. Rome's Frutta Gallery presents 'HO HO HO,' a group show curated by Alek O., Gabriele De Santis, Santo Tolone, and Spring, with artists including Elisabetta Benassi, Jonathan Monk, and Ryan Gander, running until January 13. Florence's Museo di Palazzo Vecchio hosts family activities from December 26 to January 6, including Renaissance dance workshops and shadow games. Naples' Metro Art Tour offers guided visits to Line 1 art stations on select dates from December 16 to January 6, plus a kids' workshop on December 28. Palermo's Jingle Books fair returns for its third edition at Palazzo Asmundo from December 15 to 17, featuring book presentations, talks, and a street art discussion.