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By MARGIE MACKINNON This article was first published in Restoration Conversations Magazine Issue 7, Spring 2025   View of the exhibition,...

BY MARGIE MACKINNON This article was first published in Restoration Conversations Magazine Issue 7, Spring 2025   Harriet Loffler,...

Women Filmmakers: Trailblazers A woman wanders the streets of Florence: she is an explorer from a faraway place, making her way to the 'Festival dei Popoli' cinema festival. Who is she and where does she come from? What message does she bring? She is the protagonist of the cover of The Curators' Quaderno Issue 3 and posterchild for the 65th edition of the oldest international documentary film festival in Europe. What is it like to be a French filmmaker documenting the return

Louise Bourgeois in Florence The late works of twentieth-century sculptor and painter Louise Bourgeois on the theme 'Maternity' at two Florentine museums. PRESS IMAGE TO FLIP THROUGH Second in a series that began with Lola Costa: An Artist at Il Palmerino , the September issue, Louise Bourgeois in Florence , invites readers to visit two of Florence’s most iconic museum spaces, Museo Novecento and Museo degli Innocenti to explore the French-born US artist’s ‘site-specific’ scu

Lola Costa and Il Palmerino   Il Palmerino, in the hills of Tuscany, and two women who made history there: Lola Costa and Vernon Lee. CLICK IMAGE TO FLIP THROUGH Our first edition of The Curators’ Quaderno  explores the evolution of Lola Costa’s art over the course of the 20th century, through paintings, drawings, and poetry. Thanks to the musings of curators and sector experts, Issue 1 of this new publication examines Costa’s life as an expat British woman in Florence, and f

On 9 April 2025, as part of our 'garden project', nature lovers had the opportunity to stroll through the grounds of La Foce, thanks to a special tour with estate manager and co-owner Katia Lysy, whose new book, La Foce: Paradise in Tuscany , recounts the 'garden within a garden' that her grandparents Antonio and Iris Origo built, whilst working to reclaim large swathes of the Val d'Orcia, for agriculture. Iris Origo, well-known for books like Images and Shadows or War in Va