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From 13 September to 16 December 2025, twentieth-century adoptive Florentine artist Flavia Arlotta will be featured in the show 'Inner Gardens: Still-lifes and Landscapes by Flavia Arlotta' at Il Palmerino Cultural Association. An interview with Francesco Colacicchi and Alta Macadam By Linda Falcone   This article was first published in Restoration Conversations magazine, Issue 7 - Spring 2025 Walking up the wide but wooded path, to the Colacicchi house on via dell’Osservator

At 5.30 pm on November 26, 2025, join us at Il Palmerino Cultural Association, in the Colonica di Villa Il Palmerino, for a lecture by US writer and professor Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, entitled: The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander (1837 - 1917) , after her recently published book by the same name. Francesca Alexander and her parents moved from Boston to Florence in 1853 and became part of the city's thriving international community. She was a largely self-taught artist,

TH Enjoy the seventh issue of The Curators’ Quaderno , ‘Revolution on Film’, created in conjunction with the 66 th  edition of Europe’s earliest documentary film festival, Festival dei Popoli (November 1 to 9 2025), whose diamond-point event is a multi-screening tribute to filmmaker Sarah Maldoror. According to tribute curator Ludovica Fales, “This retrospective is an invitation to make space. To get to know a pioneer who paved the way for African, anti-colonial and feminist

Now or Never: 13 Artists at Museo Sant'Orsola The Curators' Quaderno - Issue 6, ph. Claudio Ripalti Museo Sant’Orsola is celebrating its final show prior to the complex’s restructuring and renovation: ‘The Rose that Grew from Concrete’, curated by Morgane Lucquet Laforgue. The exhibition showcases site-specific works by 13 international contemporary artists, as they respond to the venue’s multi-century history. Now or Never  is our sixth issue of The Curators’ Quaderno , and

An interview by Linda Falcone Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Spring/Summer 2025 - Issue 7 Come autumn 2025,...

The exhibition The Rose that Grew from Concrete, which runs from September 5 to January 4, represents the latest stage in Museo Sant'Orsola's cultural reactivation, and it stands as an ideal bridge between the former convent’s past and its future vocation as a museum and contemporary art centre. The future museum will officially open its doors in 2026, following the completion of restructuring and renovation of the entire Sant’Orsola complex, Florence’s San Lorenzo district.