Over 200 photographs protagonists of White Women, Sleepless Nights, Big Nudes, an exhibition that brings Helmut Newton at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome Wednesday, March 6 after the initial stages in America (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and Germany (Museum for Photography in Berlin). Shots originally appeared in the earlier volumes of the photographer, from the book White Women (1976), who sees a fifty Newton struggling with his first monograph that will get the prestigious Kodak ...

Sculpture and emotions are the protagonists of this exhibition by Simona Ragazzi. Faces and figures, perfectly shaped on sheets of clay come to life, telling and interacting with the viewer, revealing the inner side and emotional feelings of man, where fear, serenity, anger, ecstasy are no longer private emotions of which have modesty, but become the main character of an inner and outer beauty that will become a work of art. "Private notes", "Hurt",  are some titles ...

Cartasia 2012: from June 30 to 29 July . In this sixth edition are involved international artists creating monumental works made by paper. Selected by a jury, the works will be visible in the streets and squares of the historical centre of Lucca. Seven, one of which is out of competition, are the artists of this edition: Stefania Gianicci, Zsuzsa Horvat (in collaboration with Zoltan Lakatos), Inés Hubacher (in ...

Preservation and enhancement of the Italian Cultural Heritage abroad University Master’s Programme issued by the University of Parma in cooperation with Milan and Turin and the Interuniversity Consortium ICoN Italian Culture on the Net Academic competencies: University of Parma and the ICoN Consortium Italian Culture on the Net in cooperation with the Universities of Milan and Turin: theoretical skills in the field of preservation and digital management of cultural heritage with ...

Virtual artworks, through a photographic exposure process, condense themselves on gleaming crystal sheets, becoming mirrors in which, next to our reflected image, beautiful, perfect and smooth entities of elsewhere appear. Mysterious sacred and profane female figures, madonnas and virtual porn-stars configured as icons of power and luxury, hieratic goddesses of perversion and voluptuousness; an unknown language, covered by enigmas and soaked with magic. This is AsAbaroK, Christian Zanotto' solo show, curated by Sonia Arata, which ...

From 23 March to 3 April Pigneto the world is turned upside down: all'Hula Hoop Club flourishes (rootless) the site-specific installation "La ville à l'envers" dual focus of staff and Chiara Francesca Mariani Luzi.A small village descends from the ceiling with a great pile of houses piled one on top upside down. There are no rules in this enchanting city, and appealing retro design, populated by animals out of context, mysterious figures, where the inside ...

LUCIANO CHINESE PERSONAL EXHIBITION HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY – BERLIN 2012 MAY FROM 7th TO 12th The Humboldt University is the oldest University of Berlin and it represents a model of modern University that combines teaching and research in humanistic tradition; it also gave a substantial contribution to scientific progress. Twenty-nine Nobel Prizes did their studies in this University: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger. Many others celebrities have been in this University, such as: Fichte, Hegel, Schopenauer, ...

Milan, 3rd of November – Just a year after the opening of the already famous Museo del Novecento in Piazza del Duomo, a new museum arises in the  "full of culture” centre of Milan: the so called “Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala”. A composite name indeed because it’s only a part, the last one until now, of the long-term project, by Intesa SanPaolo, ‘Progetto Cultura’, which embraces the entire Italy, from the south, where we can ...

Cartasia 2012, Biennial of Contemporary Art, announces the opening of entries to the competition of sculpture in paper and cardboard. As in years past the selected artists will take part in the open-air exhibition which will take place in Lucca from 30 June to July 29, 2012, and the winner will receive a cash prize of € 2,000 .00. The event will be a breath of customary international and is shaping up to be an ...

The release of "Destroyed", double project that combines the publication of Moby's new album with a photo book, will launch a series of international exhibitions that will continue throughout the summer. Published by Damiani, the hard-cover edition of Destroyed has 128 pages and gathers 55 photographs taken by Moby. A fascinating sequence of photographs taken around the world, Destroyed is a wonderful, naked, touching and humorous series of cityscapes and surreal landscape, abandoned and 'non-places' ...