Andrea Paoletti is an arts and culture photographer in Florence, Italy. He contributes to The Florentine on a regular basis as well as to a range of other magazines and publications. He runs ArtBlog (www.andreapaoletti.com).
The Dalai Lama pleased the crowds at the opening day of the Festival delle Religioni on September 19, 2017.
German artist Anselm Kiefer has exhibited 15 of his bookish works made between 1999 and 2013 in Pistoia's Biblioteca San Giorgio library.
Florence’s Ferragamo Museum is putting on an exhibition to convey the artistic and manufacturing atmosphere of Florence in 1927.
Pitti Uomo, the international menswear fair par excellence, begins today at the Fortezza da Basso, but most shows and parties are closed to the public. Last night, however, the public got in ...
The 2017 summer season of contemporary art in Florence began on June 2. This year’s city-led showcase is not a monographic edition but a collective one titled “YTALIA: Energy Thought Beauty. Everything Is Connected”.
As part of the Ytalia exhibition, the San Pancrazio crypt is hosting Mimmo Paladino’s “I Dormienti” (“Sleepers” in Italian).
Mimmo Paladino and Alberta Ferretti have crafted delightful ornaments in the Rucellai Chapel, housed in Florence's Marino Marini Museum.
Lungarno Collection’s popular art installations, set up in the unassuming square outside Gallery Hotel Art (vicolo dell’Oro 5, a stone’s throw from the Ponte Vecchio), have returned in their fifth rendition. With ...
“Robot Fever: The Samurai in the Chogokin Era” at the Stibbert Museum will run until September 10, 2017, an exhibition for grown-up geeks and little ones.
The contemporary art exhibition “Black on Black. From Fontana and Kounellis to Galliani” opens on April 14, 2017 at Florence’s Villa Bardini.
A Finn at the Court of the Medici is the solo exhibition of the Finnish painter and designer Markku Piri, held at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi from March 23 to ...
It’s the first exhibition in Italy by the “painter” (as she wanted to be called), MARIA LASSNIG, a pioneering Austrian artist in the feminist movement within visual arts. One ...
He’s the undisputed master of contemporary video art, and it was right here in Florence back in the 1970s that his creative career took flight. Palazzo Strozzi is celebrating Bill ...
The impact of speed in revolutionising transport and shaping Italian futuristic art has been brought to life in two new exhibitions in Pontedera.
Hot in the footsteps of previous immersive exhibitions in the deconsecrated church, Santo Stefano al Ponte is now hosting Klimt Experience.
Gaetano Pesce’s original sculpture Majesty Betrayed, was unveiled in piazza Santa Maria Novella on November 19. Spotlighting the female condition and women’s liberation, the site-specific work marks the ...
He’s the first artist to be left “free” to fill the fifteenth-century Palazzo Strozzi with his works, from the rooms of the Strozzina to the palace’s facades, and even the ...
For sixteen days, from June 18 to July 3, 2016 (weather permitting), Italy’s Lake Iseo will be reimagined. One hundred thousand square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, flowing on ...
Villa Bardini is currently hosting a dual exhibition on 20th century artists and brothers Antonio (1918-1984) and Xavier Bueno (1915-1979). Double Portrait – Antonio and Xavier Bueno. Counterpoints to Reality, ...
All photos by Andrea Paoletti For the 150th anniversary of Florence’s time as capital of Italy, a new exhibition called A Palace and a City has opened at Palazzo ...
A new exhibition has recently opened at Florian’s Café, marking the first event in the Florian Underground initiative. The exhibition "n.n - non noti", from artist Frenopersciacalli, is composed of a number of artworks underground, in the cellar, which will not be accessible to the public. Therefore,