Showcasing the awe, excitement, uncertainty and struggles of childhood, the UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival (UIFF) returns to Florence from October 21 to 24. Thirty-seven films from 28 countries depicting diverse but universal experiences of childhood will be shown free of charge at Cinema La Compagnia and online via MyMovies.it. Screenings will be followed by dialogues […]
We pick the minds of local education experts with considered contributions from Simon Gammell, Director of The British Institute; Carla Guarducci, President & CEO, Lorenzo De’ Medici – The Italian International Institute; Alessandro Colombo, Director of AD Education Italia/Accademia Italiana, and Ylenja Lucaselli, Italian MP. They’re back! Not in the same numbers […]
Curated by Arturo Galansino and Joachim Pissario, the display includes a wide selection of the most celebrated works by Jeff Koons from the mid-70s to the present day.
Black History Month Florence is breaking down temporal and spatial barriers with a newly opened physical space in via Santa Reparata. September 9 marked the inauguration in the ground-floor studio of Santa Reparata International School of Art with its first in-house exhibition as The Recovery Plan. Initiated in 2019 as a nomadic pop-up project, […]
Florence’s newest urban beehives have been installed in the Porte Sante cemetery by the San Miniato al Monte basilica. Florence’s urban hive initiative was officially launched on September 17. The partnership between the Bee the Ripple Association, the City of Florence, the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte and Fior da Fiore Organic […]
The US non-profit association Friends of the Uffizi Gallery has given Donato Mascagni’s Il Conte Ugolino painting to Florence’s foremost art museum. On the eve of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death on September 14, the early seventeenth-century painting by the Florentine artist will soon be displayed in the Sala della […]
