Forbes

Magazzino Italian Art Presents Yoichi Ohira In Murano, Piero Manzoni’s Total Space, Arte Povera, And Sardinian Donkeys

From brightly colored bud vases with narrow stems that look like glazed porcelain with hand scrawled designs to an orb that mimics the appearance of shiru-wan (Japanese soup bowls) traditionally made ...
CNN

The FBI has returned a 2,000-year-old Italian mosaic that may have been lost for almost a century

Hidden for decades, a mosaic that is a “key part of Rome’s history” was located and returned to the Italian government, the Federal Bureau of Investigations said in a news release on Friday. In 2020, ...
Artnet

The British Pre-Raphaelites Meet the Italian Renaissance at This New Exhibition

The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...
CNN

US returns $80 million-worth of stolen artifacts to Italy

It looked more like a museum exhibition of Italian art than a crime scene, but in the Central Institute for Restoration’s offices, located inside a former women’s prison in central Rome, some 600 ...
Observer

‘An Important Achievement for the Market’: Dealers Weigh in On Italy’s 5% Art VAT

For years, Italy’s postwar and contemporary art scene was hampered by a 22 percent VAT, but the recent VAT reduction could boost the competitiveness of Italian art. Photo by Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Italian Art Police Recovered a Long-Lost Titian. But Is It Really the Renaissance Master’s Work?

The Carabinieri Police Cultural Heritage Protection Unit returned the painting to the government in a May 19 ceremony. Photo by Marco Bertorello /AFP via Getty Images In Titian’s 1512 painting ...