Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics. While locals go about their business, busloads of tourists slip in and out of this town near the Adriatic coast to bask in the glittering glory of Byzantium, the eastern Roman Empire. Imagine that it’s AD 540. The city of...

This exhibit runs from October 3-25 at Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College (600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, RI), with an opening reception on Thursday, October 3, from 4-7 p.m. The late Enrico Vittorio Pinardi, known to his friends, family and students as “Henry,” was a nationally acclaimed artist and professor of art who taught at RIC...

The beloved Cold Spring, New York institution Magazzino Italian Art just debuted its updated leadership roster, with Adam Sheffer as director, Paola Mura as artistic director, Monica Eisner as Chief Operating Officer and Nicola Lucchi as director of education at the Germano Celant Research Center. Together, they bring decades of experience working...

Saturday October 12th, 2024; 6:00 to 9:00 PM. 116 Duane Street, New York, NY 10007. In tribute to Pavarotti on his birthday, AHA Fine Art presents an audio and visual exhibition fusing evocative arias by one of the greatest tenors of all time, Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), with drawings and paintings by renowned artist, professor and New York City...

After nearly 500 years, Giorgio Vasari's magnificent ceiling from Palazzo Corner Spinelli in Venice has been fully restored and is once again on public display. This Renaissance jewel has been painstakingly reassembled after its panels were scattered among private collectors and museums at the end of the 18th century. For the past 40 years, the Ita...

There are many things to love about fall. Perhaps most notably this year, it’s the relief from the excruciating heat that gripped Italy over the past few months. But beyond the cooler weather, fall brings with it a sense of serenity, quietness, and protection. It’s in the way the light softens in the sky and how the days slowly shorten. There’s som...

June 2024 Representing the city of Rome as we remember the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rome by the American Fifth Army  

Fall is approaching, even though the high temperatures don’t always make it feel like the new season is here. Still, the calendar is clear: the equinox on September 22 is near, and with it comes the gradual shortening of the days—on average, we’ll lose 4 minutes of daylight each day until the winter solstice on December 21. Nature, despite the chal...

A practicing artist for 50-plus years, Joseph Burlini has made a name for himself by creating inventive kinetic sculptures and soaring public works. A native of Morton Grove, Burlini has a degree in industrial design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and spent six years designing for Sears, Roebuck and Co. before pivoting to making ar...

The Kimbell Art Museum announced on Friday that it has acquired a long-lost 17th-century painting depicting the Christian saint Mary Magdalene. For perhaps the first time since its creation, the work will be on public view, starting today in the Fort Worth museum’s Louis I. Kahn building. The painting, called Penitent Mary Magdalene, was made by It...