Italy
Largest exhibition ever of Mario Merz igloos to take over Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca space
Major loan show is based on 1985 display of the Italian artist organised by pioneering curator Harald Szeemann
Top experts dispute Italian police claims about seized ‘antiquities’
“I cannot imagine where a terracotta life-size horse head could come from in antiquity,” a specialist says
Lost art: Has Caravaggio’s long missing Nativity been found?
Noah Charney on the Carabinieri's efforts to track down the stolen painting
Venice: a city at a cultural crossroads
As the Venice Architecture Biennale opens, the Venetian journalist Enrico Tantucci analyses culture in the city through the Biennale, historic buildings, the Accademia and the Arsenale
Italian museum discovers painting by Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna in its collection
The Accademia Carrara in Bergamo has re-attributed the 15th-century work Resurrection of Christ
Canada’s 1950s Venice Biennale pavilion gets a facelift
The upgrade to the Modernist building and its surrounding landscape has resulted in a new visitor route planned for the Giardini
Design or colour? Look to Titian
A shoestring trip to La Serenissima—and a thumbs-up for Simon Schama
Reconstruction of quake-damaged church to be led by former head of Vatican Museums
Antonio Paolucci to oversee restoration of Italy's Basilica of St Benedict
New territory for Glenn Ligon with first solo show in Italy
US artist tries new techniques and tackles immigration in Naples exhibition
Top Italian museum director faces trial over gym visits
The director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome has been suspended without pay for leaving the office
Carsten Höller puts plant life to the test—with slides—at Palazzo Strozzi
The Belgian-born artist has devised experiment with Italian scientist Stefano Mancuso
Why Miart is starting to attract high-profile exhibitors
Galleries, benefitting from Milan's April buzz, are already reporting healthy sales
Italian far right wants to turn Fascist HQ into mega-museum
The Lega party—which may soon be in power—believes that Italy, through its culture, can lead the world
Milan's Fondazione Prada sheds light on Italy's Fascist past on eve of country's elections
Timing of mega-exhibition organised by Germano Celant is coincidental but timely
Fondazione Prada recreates 20 Italian exhibits made under Fascist rule
Show of more than 500 works ranges from Giorgio de Chirico to Gruppo 7
Small Italian galleries could suffer from influx of foreign dealers
Il Giornale dell'Arte's deputy editor weighs in
Foreign galleries make move on Italy
Thomas Dane is the latest in a string of galleries to open spaces in the country, but are there are enough high-level collectors to sustain them?
Venetian mega-exhibition aims to highlight plight of European craftsmanship
Homo Faber's initiative, focussing on artisanal techniques, will take over the entire Fondazione Giorgio Cini next autumn
Turin exhibition dwells on contemporary art's futile obsession with the new
OGR's first show remixes the city's collections from antiquity to present, reflecting on the over production of contemporary art and the fact nothing is new
Back to the future: Artissima to champion 80s art and new talent
New director Ilaria Bonacossa introduces a drawings section and plans to return Turin fair to its experimental roots
Lorenzo Quinn to follow in Christo’s footsteps by creating work for Lake Iseo
Italian artist known for submerging a giant pair of hands in Venice’s Grand Canal plans to install the steel sculpture next year
Mosaic floor from Caligula’s ship returned to Italy
New York authorities tracked down the object, which was being used as a coffee table by a Manhattan couple, after a photograph appeared in a book on porphyry
What if Italy sold this 5,000-piece hoard of orphan antiquities?
Experts say the haul, the result of a 14-year investigation, could raise as much as €15m for the country’s cash-strapped archaeological service
Antonio II Badile: An Italian Renaissance drawing collector and his family
Casting light on an overlooked but fascinating aspect of the Renaissance
More questions than answers after ‘miraculous’ Russian avant-garde show
Specialists express concern about lack of provenance for works by artists including Rodchenko and Goncharova in Italian exhibition
Digital access to Italian banks’ art
300,000 works owned by banks belonging to the Associazione Bancaria Italiana to become available to view online
Obituary: Gae Aulenti
One of the few Italian women to achieve fame in architecture, not least for turning a train station into the Musée d’Orsay
Return of Morgantina Venus inspires Sicilian tourism enterprise
Public-private tourism partnership aims to make more of the island’s heritage.
Italian pop art forgery scandal widens as six more works are now being sought
Public prosecutor Giuseppe Ferrando pursues fakes tied to JZ Art gallery