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 Michele Marieschi: Engraved City Views - through 22 September 2008
Michele Marieschi (1710-1743). Engraved City Views.
Engravings from the rich treasures that make up the Correr Museum’s collection of prints and drawings by one of the prime Venetian vedutisti (cityscape painters) and paesaggisti (landscape painters) of the Settecento.
Specifically, the offers ...
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Redentore feast on July 19th 2007 The Redentore feast it’s one of the most traditional festivities in Venice and it’s celebrated every year on the third saturday of July, to remember the end of the plague in the XIV century.
During this feast in Giudecca is built a votive bridge of boats that connects the island to the cit ...
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Coming of Age. American Art From 1850 to 1950, June 28th through Oct 12th 2008 - Peggy Guggenheim Collection Coming of Age. American Art From 1850 to 1950.
Open to the public, Sat. 28 June through 12 October 2008.
Shown already in the United States and Britain, this exhibition of over seventy paintings and sculptures examines a century of American art and illustrates the evolution of American art as ...
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A World of Paper: Isabelle de Borchgrave meets Mariano Fortuny - through July 21st 2008 Isabelle de Borchgrave meets Mariano Fortuny. Open to the public until 21 July 2008.
More than eighty dresses, unique for being made of paper, as well as accessories and trompe-d’oeil, are on display in Venice at the charming residence-atelier of Mariano Fortuny, demonstrating the skill and talen ...
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6TH INT'L CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL - 14-29 June 2008 The 6th International Festival of Contemporary Dance by the Venice Biennale will this year “talk about” beauty: with performances, workshops, meetings and a
video installation accompanying the event. The program runs 14th to 29th June in Venice. With Beauty, director Ismael Ivo extends his researc ...
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FAREVETRO. Creativity and Technique in a hundred works. Opening, Wednesday 28 May. FAREVETRO. Creativity and Technique in a hundred works. Opening, Wednesday 28 May.
Open to the public 29 May through 30 September.
First exhibition produced by VETROVETRO, a new association of eleven important Murano glassworks founded with the aim of supporting and spreading the
glassmaking ...
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The Macchiaioli: masterpieces from the Mario Taragoni Collection THE MACCHIAIOLI: MASTERPIECES FROM THE MARIO TARAGONI COLLECTION.
Opening to 27 July.
The exhibition puts on display for the first time the prestigious collection of 19th-century Tuscan paintings, assembled thanks to the passion and critical spirit of the famous Genovese collector Mario Tar ...
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Santomaso and the Abstract Option - Cini Foundation through July 13th 2008 Santomaso and the Abstract Option
GIORGIO CINI FOUNDATION
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Open through 13 July 2008
Twenty-five years after the last Venetian exhibition of Santomaso’s works, this great show celebrates the Venetian Abstract master’s 100th birthday ...
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Mumm 30 European Championship: Venice, May 13th-18th 2008 Mumm 30 European Championship.
Venetian leg of the Mumm 30 sailing championship.
Compagnia della Vela di Venezia, tel. 041.522.25.93.
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Mare Maggio, Arsenale, May 8th-11th Mare Maggio
Arsenale
May 8th-11th
A show dedicated to naval past, present and future in an area of great tradition, with large yachts and historical boats.
Expo Venice, Marittima, tel. 041.533.48.50. ...
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34th Vogalonga May 11th 2008 34th Vogalonga on May 11th 2008
St. Mark’s Basin and Northern Lagoon.
The most popular non-competitive boat race of the year, called also the “lagoon rowing marathon.” ...
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Day of the Sensa. San Nicolo', Lido, 4 May Day of the Sensa. San Nicolo', Lido, 4 May
Traditional holiday on Ascension Day reviving an old ceremony known as “Marriage to the Sea.” Includes a boat race aboard gondolas; the first event in the Venetian rowing season.
APT tourism office, tel. 041.529.87.11
Web site: www.turismo.venezia.it
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SPHERES OF THE EARTH AND THE SKY. CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES FROM THE 16TH TO 20TH CENTURY. Open to the public through 13 April 2008. This unusual exhibition explores the intriguing ways the earth and the sky have been depicted over the centuries. The exhibition, divided in chronological-thematic sections that explore the subject from an historical-artistic as well as scientific evolutionary points of view, offers some 140 works f ...
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LAWRENCE CARROLL - Open through 4 May 2008. A series of site-specific installations – specially created for the nine rooms on the museum’s second floor where they are on display – offer a look at the latest artistic quests of the Australian-born artist who has been living and working for a while now in California and lately also in Venice. Vi ...
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ACCADEMIA GALLERIES: LATE TITIAN AND SENSUALITY IN PAINTING Open through 20 April 2008 LATE TITIAN AND SENSUALITY IN PAINTING.
Open through 20 April 2008.
Arriving in Venice following its great success in Vienna is the exhibition dedicated to the 16th-century great Veneto artist’s last years. Product of the a collaboration between the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Special Venet ...
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ROME AND THE BARBARIANS: THE BIRTH OF A NEW WORLD - Palazzo Grassi through July 2008 Open to the public to 20 July 2008.
Over 1,700 exhibits – including manuscripts, military and funerary objects, and paintings – in a huge show on view on the three floors of the palazzo, covering the centuries of combative coexistence of Rome and the Barbarian nations, documenting over a thousand y ...
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THE VENETIAN MUSICIANS - 2007 Concert Season THE VENETIAN MUSICIANS – 2007 Concert Season
Opera-Concert: Baroque & Opera.
Orchestra performing in period costumes, with a soprano, baritone and tenor. Music by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Rossini: 16-20-23-27-30 October, 8.30pm.
Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
Music by Vival ...
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Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797 Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797.
Until 25 November 2007.
This important exhibition explores the intense and elaborate relationships between the Serenissima Republic and the Muslim world. Paintings, glass, pottery and metal art works, as well as jewelry, textile and prints, illustr ...
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Enzo Cucchi, paintings and drawings. Open through 7 October Over a hundred paintings and drawings coming from important European and American museums in an important retrospective (open to coincide with the Biennale Exhibition) of one of the leading Italian contemporary artists.
Presented by the Venice Civic Museums, the show covers the artist’s career fr ...
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Bbcc EXPO: 10th Cultural Heritage and Activities Fair. Bbcc EXPO.
10th Cultural Heritage and Activities Fair.
Seaport Passenger Terminal, 30 November - 2 December 2007.
10th edition of the trade fair dedicated to cultural heritage professionals involved in conservation and promotion.
VeneziaFiere, tel. 041.71.40.66. ...
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51st International Contemporary Music Festival. Oltre la linea - Beyond the Line. 51st International Contemporary Music Festival. Oltre la linea / Beyond the Line.
Biennale Venues: 4-13 October 2007.
Director, Giorgio Battistelli. Presented by the Venice Biennale. Venice Biennale, tel. 041.521.87.11. ...
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Ennio Morricone in Concert in Venice Ennio Morricone in Concert.
Two concerts with the great composer of some of the most celebrated film scores of all time conducting the Rome Sinfonietta Orchestra and the Fenice Theater Chorus.
Presented by the Venice Casino: Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 September, 9pm
The second concert ...
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Venice Film Festival 2007 The line-up of the 64th Venice Film Festival is now public.
This year’s festival will cast its eye over the protagonists of the cinema of tomorrow, and over the history of cinema: the 75th anniversary Golden Lion is to be awarded to Bernardo Bertolucci, the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement to ...
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VEDOVA - Monotypes. Until 2 September at PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION VEDOVA – Monotypes. Until 2 September.
A small but significant exhibition celebrates within the Venetian temple of modern art the Venetian master who has passed away recently. On view are a number of works from two monotype series, among the last produced by the artist who was a leading figure in ...
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All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys at PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys.
Open until 2 September.
An exploration – through works coming mainly from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s collection – of the artistic and conceptual affinities between two artists belonging to different generations an ...
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Redentore feast on July 14th 2007 The Redentore feast it’s one of the most traditional festivities in Venice and it’s celebrated every year on the third saturday of July, to remember the end of the plague in the XIV century.
During this feast in Giudecca is built a votive bridge of boats that connects the island to the cit ...
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Venice takes flight Arts & entertainment: In a special report from the world's biggest arts jamboree, Adrian Searle reveals what the Venice Biennale has to teach us.
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Venice Biennale opens to public The 52nd Venice Biennale, the world's oldest art exhibition, opens to the public in northern Italy.
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52nd Venice Biennale launches European contemporary art season The world's oldest and most prestigious contemporary art fair opens Sunday in Venice, kicking off what promises to be the European art season of the decade as four premier events align in an unusual convergence that is generating extraordinary buzz.
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Venice To Get New Modern Art Center Christie's owner FranàƒÂ§ois Pinault has signed a deal with the city of Venice "to create a contemporary-art center in an unused customs house called Punta della Dogana, at the entrance to the Grand Canal.
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