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Women photographers: Alinari Archives to Contemporary Perspectives Video by Olga Makarova Villa Bardini, one of the exhibition’s venues – together with Forte di Belvedere – provided an evocative backdrop to the show which brought together female greats of the past and contemporary Italian women photographers. Curated by Emanuela Sesti and Walter Guadagnini, it ran from June 19 to October 2, 2022. Organised and promoted by the Alinari Foundation for Photography and the Fondazi

Florence-based conservators and restoration scientists spent one year studying and safeguarding Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of Inclination   at Casa Buonarroti. In this new 12-minute video by filmmaker Olga Makarova, the project’s restoration team  shares process highlights, shedding light on the skill and the thrill of working with Artemisia UpClose. WATCH THE VIDEO The Artemisia UpClose project, organised and hosted by Casa Buonarroti Museum and Foundation, was sponsor

The Wulz Studio: 8,000 Negatives The Curators’ Quaderno  is a collection of notebook-style publications, conceived by Calliope Arts, in collaboration with The Florentine Press, to raise awareness of women’s contributions to the fields of art, science and culture. Issue 4 focuses on the new exhibition, ‘Fotografia Wulz: Trieste, the Family the Atelier’ (December 13, 2024 to April 27, 2025) at Trieste’s Magazzino delle Idee, organised by Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia and

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 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’ sculptures and gouaches on themes linked to maternity. The ‘Louise Bourgeois in Florence’ project and exhibition, sponsored by Calliope Arts and Christian Le

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

Goals like 'Decluttering', 'shaping ambition', 'paying attention to domesticity', 'discarding fatal prettiness', ring like New Year's...

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at the British Institute of Florence An interview-style 'lecture' with Il Palmerino president Federica...

Watch 'Restoration Conversations' at Museo Sant'Orsola with museum director Morgane Lucquet Laforgue, at the exhibition 'Revelations'...

From December 14, 2024 to April 27, 2025 Il Magazzino delle Idee, Trieste Ph: Marion Wulz's newly restored photograph of Wanda Wulz,...

Watch 'Restoration Conversations' at Florence's National Library with co-curator Natacha Fabbri. Live at the exhibition ‘Women of the...

Photo courtesy of MK Gallery, ‘ Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour ’ ‘Her vision excites a strong emotion and yet when we have...

By Margie MacKinnon Originally published in Restoration Conversations magazine Autumn / Winter 2024 - Issue 6 See the full issue Vanessa...

The largest ever survey of the work of Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) until February 23, 2025 at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.   Vanessa Bell, Landscape (verso), 1915, Oil on canvas, The Wilson, Cheltenham Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour surveys Bell’s entire career for the first time and presents a complete picture of the range of her practice through more than 140 works across paintings, drawings, furniture, ceramics, designs for murals, advertising and book covers, som

140 works at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes make up the venue’s newest exhibition: ‘Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour’, which...

AWA Legacy Fund sees dream unfold by Linda Falcone The article was originally published in Restoration Conversations magazine Issue 06,...

“What shall we plant this year, signora ?” An interview with Federica Parretti on artist Lola Costa by Linda Falcone This article was...

A cage and a choir Louise Bourgeois at the Innocenti Museum By Linda Falcone This article was first published in Restoration...

By Linda Falcone Article originally published in The Florentine , May 2024   “There is tremendous anticipation for the Florence...

Inside Issue 1 of The Curators' Quaderno Three’s a charm! With the advent of the Festival dei Popoli cinema festival in November,...