After more than one year and a half, Pitti Uomo returns this summer from June 30 to July 2. The fair hits this summer its 100 edition after the pandemic has prevented both last summer and last winter’s edition, and is also quite an important opportunity for Florence to re-embrace her international dimension after …
How a Single Consumer can Change the Travel Destination of Food Migle Vaisnoraite Redirected flight, cancelled train, full bus can complicate one’s travel plans. However, while tourists manage to reach their intended destination by taking the next plane, missing the flight to one’s mouth means travelling straight to the rubbish bin for food. The …
Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella announced last month that the City Council will invest €19 million for maintenance of historic sites and 40 million for promoting cultural events. The objective of the Council is repeating the successes of 2017, with Florence being named the best city for cultural events by the prestigious Artribune Magazine. …
The Santo Ficara contemporary art gallery presents Zanorre, an exhibition on the works of Gianni Asdrubali, from Oct. 21 to Nov. 15. Born in 1955 in Tuscania, Asdrubali emerged as an abstract painter and is noted for his large-scale works on canvas or wall. In the early 80s he became a member of the Italian …
By Cheyenne Curley The 30th edition of the Biennale dell’antiquariato, the International Antiques Fair of Florence, is taking place this year at Palazzo Corsini every day from Sept. 23 to Oct. 1. The Biennale was inaugurated in 1959, inspired by Luigi Bellini, the famous Florentine antiques collector who organized the first Florentine exhibit of its …
The contemporary art Gallery Il Ponte is presenting the exhibition I Do Not Dare,I Dare Not To Be by Luca Maria Patella. An internationally renowned re- search artist, Patella is known for his complex semantic relations and techniques ranging from painting to sculpture-objects, in- stallations, photographs, films and video, graphic works, as well as books …
The exhibition Unknown Pleasures is running at the Museo Bardini from June 10 to Oct. 25, showcasing a spectrum of Glenn Brown’s work. Brown will be installing over twenty pieces including paintings, drawings and sculptures, some of which have been made for this exhibition and shown for the first time. Mining art history and popular …
A research on Leonardo Da Vinci’s mom conducted by Martin Kemp, a professor of art history at Oxford University, seems to have demonstrated that she was neither a peasant nor a slave from North Africa or from some eastern country as most scholars believed, but a poor girl knocked up by an ambitious lawyer. …
Pizza, Mexican, Sushi, Chinese, Thai, Typical Tuscan Deliveroo is an award-winning delivery service founded in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski. Deliveroo works with over 16,000 best-loved restaurants, as well as over 20,000 riders to provide the best food delivery experience in the world. Deliveroo is headquartered in London, with more than 800 employees …
Named after Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, a homely, rustic taverna fittingly lies on Via dei Cimatori, only a few meters away from Dante’s house. The restaurant offers traditional dishes based on medieval recipes. Some are adapted and revisited for the modern age in a way that one maintains the omnipresent feeling of Florentine history …