The don’t miss list – May 6 to 19,

The don’t miss list – May 6 to 19,

Fair/ Artigianato e Palazzo May 13 to 15, Giardino Corsini   Three days, nearly 100 artisans and the rare opportunity to see them at work and explaining their craft, all in the stunning setting of Giardino Corsini, which will be in full bloom. This year will feature artisanal kite making (

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Fair/
Artigianato e Palazzo

May 13 to 15, Giardino
Corsini

 

Three days, nearly
100 artisans and the rare opportunity to see them at work and
explaining their craft, all in the stunning setting of Giardino
Corsini, which will be in full bloom. This year will feature
artisanal kite making (and flying), a beer garden, violin makers, and
mini-workshops. A wonderful way to spend a warm day out with the
family (dogs are welcome as well!). For more information, see our
interview with Neri Torrigiani, the event’s founder, in TF 141,
visit www.artigianatoepalazzo.it or call 055/2654588.

 

 

Sports/
Guarda Firenze Run

May 8, 9:30am, piazza
Duomo

 

GuardaFirenze, now
in its 39th year, is a noncompetitive 10km run or a 3km or 6km fit
walk that takes you on a path through the city’s most beautiful
piazzzas (and up the hill to piazzale Michelangelo). There is also
the ‘Ginky’ Mini Guarda Firenze for kids (3km). The event is
intended to promote physical fitness in the city. Sign up at Firenze
Marathon’s office (viale M. Fanti 2), call 055/5522957 or visit
www.firenzemarathon.it for more information.

 

 

Movies/Exit
Through the Gift Shop: a film by Bansky, Italian premier

May 12, 9pm and 11pm,
Odeon Firenze

 

The work of Bansky,
a street artist, is known the world over, yet his identity remains
strictly confidential. We only know he was born around 35 years ago
in Bristol, that he executes his art in symbolic locations in major
cities, and that his work, although extremely critical of the current
art ‘system,’ is the envy of myriad collectors world wide,
including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. He has released a film about
his guerilla antics, and we believe that one look at the preview will
it. For more information, see www.odeon.intoscana.it.

 

 

Movies/Martedì
al Cinema in cerca di identità

Until June 14, Odeon
Firenze and Palazzo Strozzi

 

A unique event
combining cinema and fine art: Palazzo Strozzi has teamed up with
Odeon Cinema to screen a series of films and shorts that relate
directly to exhibits currently showing and coming soon to Strozzi.
Among the wide array, films will include those that star, address or
feature scenes designed or directed by Picasso, Mirò or Dalì
(Strozzi’s ‘angry young men’), including Un chien Andalou and
Hitchcock’s Spellbound, which has a dream sequence designed by
Dalì. A BBC documentary about social networking relates to
Strozzina’s Virtual Realities exhibit. For more information, visit
www.odeon.intoscana.it.

 

 

Art/Notte
dei Musei 2011

May 14, All over Italy

 

This annual event
promoted by the MiBAC means that state museums across Italy are open
free and late on the night of Saturday, May 14. From 8pm to 2am, star
in your own ‘night at the museum’ experience. The full list of
region-by-region participating museums is available at
www.beniculturali.it (scroll down to ‘Notte dei Musei 2011’).

 

 

Lecture/Jane
Fortune on Invisible Women

Forgotten
Artists of Florence

May 18, 6pm, British
Institute of Florence, Lungarno Guicciardini, 9

May 20, 5:30pm, Biblioteca
comunale di Bagno a Ripoli, via di Belmonte, 38

 

On
May 18, Jane Fortune, TF’s culture editor, author, art collector
and founder of two nonprofit organizations that bring to light and
restore art by women in the Florentine museums, discusses the
hundreds of women artists whose talent and courage-and thousands of
works of art-remains the ‘hidden half’ of one of the world’s most
celebrated cities. (By her count, 128 works by women are on public
view in Florence; yet more than 1,500 works by women artists are
currently stored in Florence’s various art deposits, most of which
have not been seen for centuries.) How can these artists and their
works become recognized as a fundamental part of the city’s artistic
identity? For more information on the May 18 lecture at the British
Institute, see www.britishinstitute.it/en.
On May 20, the format will be an interview as she discusses the
findings in her groundbreaking book, Invisible
Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence.

 

 

Duets/Drawings
by Leonardo and Michelangelo in comparison

Until August 1, Casa
Buonarroti

 

Compare
the skill of the masters in this exhibit, which places 12 drawings by
Leonardo da Vinci next to 10 by Michelangelo. This small exhibit is
but a preview of a much-awaited major exhibition of their drawings in
Rome this coming October. For more information, see
www.casabuonarroti.it.

 

 

Contemporary
Art/ From Russia with Love

Dubossarsky
& Vinogradov in Pietrasanta

Until May 29, Complesso di
S. Agostino, Palazzo Panichi e Museo Virtuale piazza Duomo,
Pietrasanta (Lucca)

 

Pictures,
sculptures, films and photographs that provide a comprehensive window
into the Russian contemporary art scene and explore how the latest
Russian art stars are reinterpreting ancient Russia in their works.
The event coincides with the year of Italy-Russia cultural exchange
and will feature, among others, AES+F, the Dubossarsky Vinogradov art
duo and Ivan Matveevic Vinogradov, new to Pietrasanta, but well
established internationally (great success in Venice, London, Paris
and New York). For more information, call 0584/795500 or see
www.cavpietrasanta.it.

 

 

Photography/40.jpg
by Marco Badiani

Opening May 7 until June
4, Art Bar (open from 6:30pm), via del Moro, 4r

 

TF’s
own director Marco Badiani presents a selection of his photographic
anthology in the bar with the best artisanal drinks in Florence.
Marco, always with his camera at hand, takes seemingly mundane
moments and captures their beauty, color, contrast, rhythm, light and
geometry. Go grab a passion fruit mojito and check out the
multifaceted talent of a TF founder.

 

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