ROME -
From van Gogh to Escher, from Picasso to Kandinsky, and then Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Avedon, Zerocalcare, Jago, Banksy and TvBoy:
once again this year great art will be one of the "gifts" to be unwrapped during the Christmas holidays.
In fact, the places of culture are preparing to welcome visitors at Christmas and Boxing Day as well as on December 31st, January 1st (which is the first Sunday of the month and is therefore free in museums and state archaeological parks) and at the Epiphany, with extraordinary openings also on Mondays (December 26th and January 2nd) and sometimes even with extended hours.
Al Man di Nuoro, where "Picasso and Guernica. Genesis of a masterpiece. Against all wars" is set up, an exhibition that recalls the passage of the famous painting in Italy, no break for the holidays, with regular hours at Christmas and New Year's.
The Uffizi in Florence will be extraordinarily open on December 26th and January 2nd, and also on New Year's Eve, for free Sunday,
but they will be closed at Christmas.
The great exhibitions of Arthemisia are also always open, from van Gogh at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome, where 50 works from the Kröller Müller Museum in Otterlo are exhibited, to "Jago, Banksy, TVboy and other counter-current stories" at Palazzo Albergati in Bologna (with 60 masterpieces that tell some of the most extreme and transgressive stories of Italian and international public art), from Escher to the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence (200 works that reveal the Dutch genius with the most iconic works of his production) to the homage to Zerocalcare with "Dopo il botto", over 500 original plates, videos, sketches, illustrations and a site-specific work at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan.
Also the project "Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is holy",
divided into three exhibitions and conceived collectively by the Palaexpo Special Company of Rome, the National Galleries of Ancient Art and the Maxxi will be able to be explored and explored by the public thanks to the extraordinary openings scheduled in the respective museum venues (Palazzo Esposizioni, Palazzo Barberini and Maxxi always open but the last two not on Christmas day).
At Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano the exhibition "Ron Galella, paparazzo superstar", a journey through universal icons of cinema, art, music, pop culture and costume, it will be possible to visit, with the exception of Christmas day, also the 26 December, 1 (from 3 pm) and 6 January.
Extraordinary and extended openings (December 23 and January 6 until 9 pm) for the 2022 holidays in the Civic Museums of Venice: many exhibitions to see, from "
Canova and Venice 1822-2022.
Photographs by Fabio Zonta" at the Correr Museum, at "Kandinsky and the avant-garde.
Accademia di Firenze will be closed on December 25th but open on Boxing Day, January 1st, Monday 2nd and Friday 6th for the Epiphany.
Extraordinary opening at the Bargello Museums on Monday 26 December and Friday 30 December from 8:15 to 18:00, Monday 2 January from 8:15 to 19, while on 8 January the opening hours will be 8:45-14 (24 and 31 December closing early at 6pm).
The opening on Sunday 1 January will follow the ordinary hours, and on 2 January the Museum of Palazzo Davanzati will also be open on an exceptional basis.
From Artemisia in Naples to the photography of Crewdson and Lisetta Carmi in Turin, from patrons such as Lorenzo the Magnificent and modern bankers and philanthropists in Milan to Magellan's first venture around the world through the story of Antonio Pigafetta in Vicenza: also at the Gallerie d'
Italy and in the other museums of the Intesa Sanpaolo museum network will be celebrated with extraordinary openings (on 26 December and 2 January; closed at Christmas) and free admission (1 January).
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