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Expression for identity
Celebrating the Middle East in Florence
The Middle East Now festival, returning to Florence for its fourth year, will screen more than 40 films from April 3 to 8. Along with the films are special projects and exhibitions related to the art and design of up-and-coming talents. …
Don't Miss
The don't miss list - March 28 to April 11
Our events listing keeps you up-to-date on the latest and greatest in culture, music and other English-friendly entertainment. This is a selection of the best of them. CELEBRATE/Easter Sunday March 31, Florence Easter in Florence includes the centuries-old tradition of the famous ‘exploding’ …
Exhibit Reviews
The Renaissance starts here
It's sculpture, not painting, that started it all
Palazzo Strozzi’s lastest exhibit, Springtime of the Renaissance, takes on a double challenge: explaining the roots of the Renaissance, topic of extensive historiography, and convincing the crowds to go see a show about sculpture.
Sculpture is generally less sexy and less of …
Movie Reviews
Movie reviews - March 14 to 28
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Odeon: March 14 An extraordinary and affecting movie that will stay in the memory for a long time. Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading health and melting ice caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash …
Don't Miss
The don't miss list - March 14 to 28
Our events listing keeps you up-to-date on the latest and greatest in culture, music and other English-friendly entertainment. This is a selection of the best of them. TECHNO/Carl Craig March 16, 9:30pm Viper Theatre, via Pistoiese, Florence Star of the international electronic music scene, …
Famous Expats
The Scorpioni
The eccentric expats behind Tea with Mussolini
‘Why shouldn’t Mussolini have an empire? All the best people in Europe have empires.’ So affirms the imperious British expat Lady Hester Random (played by Maggie Smith) in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1999 semi-autobiographical film, Tea with Mussolini, to be screened at the …
Best Events
Eroticism in a changing land
2013 Florence Korea Film Fest
Now in its 11th year, the Florence festival of South Korean film returns to the Odeon Theatre from March 15 to 24.
This year, the focus is on the K-Eros genre. The films in this retrospective on eroticism demonstrate the enormous changes …
Exhibit Reviews
Time up for Dali
Why does the Spanish artist still draw crowds?
There is no doubting Salvador Dalí’s popularity. His work continues to please, shock and titillate, generating food for thought and queues at the ticket office. The arrival of The Dalí Universe at Palazzo Medici Riccardi is welcome. As does every Dalí …
Food + Wine
See, meet, taste
Delighting the taste buds and the other four senses, the Pitti Immagine Taste food fair is an annual journey through Italy’s culinary landscape, from food to wine, from trends to philosophies, from equipment to design. Think top-quality food and drink from …
Movie Reviews
Movie reviews - Feb 28 to March 14
SIBERIAN EDUCATION Odeon: March 1–6 A drama based on the bestselling memoir by the Moldovan Nicolai Lilin, now living in Italy, about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria in Siberia. This first release …
Don't Miss
The don't miss list - Feb 28 to March 14
Our events listing keeps you up-to-date on the latest and greatest in culture, music and other English-friendly entertainment. This is a selection of the best of them. SPORT/Florence Bike Festival March 1–3. Fortezza da Basso, Florence Like to bike? The world of two wheels …
Exhibit Reviews
The winners
Meet the 2013 artists in residence at Villa Romana
An exhibition of contemporary works at Villa Romana, located on the edge of the city, a mile and several centuries from the Pitti Palace, marks the arrival in Tuscany of four new foreign artists.
Villa Romana—Winners 2013 is a collection assembled by …
Jane Fortune Mosaics
A farmhouse for foreign artists
Richard Fremantle's eclectic collection
by Jane Fortune
Foreign artists of many mediums have worked and studied in Tuscany for centuries, seeking inspiration from its masterful art and evocative landscape. Yet, who are some of the creative personalities that have produced art here during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? …
Food + Wine
It's time to taste!
Annual Florence foodie fair returns
March in Florence means fine food and drink—and lots of it. The 2013 edition of Taste promises to be the best yet, when the city of Florence is all about food and drink. From March 9 to 11, curious gourmets and …
Movie Reviews
Movie reviews - Feb 14 to 28
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Odeon: February 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 An adaptation of the modern classic that explores rather more quirkily than usual the trauma of adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Fifteen-year-old Charlie is a cute, naïve outsider …1-15 | 16-30 | 31-45 | 46-60 | 61-75 | 76-90 | 91-105 | 106-120 | 121-135 | 136-150
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Sunday, May 19, 2013