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ONLY BE VENETIAN
Only-Be Venetian
Al Paradiso
Al Paradiso is one of the most beautiful restaurants in Venice. It´s located in a 16th century building and its foods and wines are exquisite.
Ca´ Pesaro
Ca´ Pesaro is one of the most imposing constructions in Venice that also holds the Modern Art Museum and the Oriental Art Museum.
Ponte de Sospiri
The Ponte dei Sospiri is one of the most famous in Venice because it´s a construction made entirely out of stone, even its windows.
Peggy Guggenheim Gallery
The Peggy Guggenheim Gallery is one of the most important museums because it presents some of the most relevant contemporary art works.
Giorgio Armani Boutique
The Giorgio Armani Boutique is located in the Piazza San Marco in Venice and it´s a luxury shop where one can find everything that they´re looking for to look
Venice Jazz Club
Venice Jazz Club is a famous bar in Venice where both tourists and locals go to spend a magical night to the rhythm of live music.
A Beccafico
A Beccafico is the typical Italian restaurant in the city of Venice. You´ll find a good value for money and you´ll feel like at home.
Glass Expo: Thousand years of art in Venice
On until the 25th of April at Venice´s Correr Museum is exhibition La Aventura del Vidrio: un milenio de arte veneziano. The show, which marks the 150 year anniversary of Venice Museum Foundation, is commissioned by Aldo Bova and Squarcina Chiara. The exhibition was created with the aim of both promoting and telling the story of the art of Murano and Venetian glass, and is organized into four sections: archeological glass, 15th and 18th century, 19th century and 20th century. On show are more than 300 pieces from the Murano Crystal Museum´s collection – some of which were recovered from the banks of the Venice canals, having fallen from ships which were transporting them abroad. The Murano glass name dates back to the 11th century, when Venice´s artisan glassworkers moved to the small island of Murano after a massive fire hit the city. Up until then, Venice had been the European leader in the production of glass, and so that this prestige was maintained, the special techniques and creative processes of the artisans became a closely guarded secret. Venice would go on to dominate the European glass market until 1700. The special feature of Venetian glass was its hard, refined sodium-based composition, making it colourless and transparent. The early pieces were simple shapes decorated with gold or silver enamel to make them look like jewelry. By the end of the 16th century, the designs had started to become more sophisticated, along with the technique. Pieces were smaller, lighter and more delicate, and glass filigree was developed, in which tiny strands of opaque glass were added to the transparent glass,...
Vorticism: rebellious artists in London and New York 1914-1918
For the first time in Italy, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (www.guggenheim-venice.it) presents an exhibition devoted entirely to Vorticism, a short-lived British art movement characterized by a style that combines the forms of mechanical time to the image suggested by the vortex, which took place in early twentieth century. This exhibition is curated by Commissioners Viviane Greene and Mark Antliff and will take place from 28 January to 15 May. Vorticism is generally considered as one of the most significant of British artistic production moments of that time, although it lasted for very short (approximately for three years). Its beginnings date back to the Rebel Art Centre, an art production founded by Wyndham Lewis, among others, in opposition to the Omega Workshops of Roger Fry, and finds its roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism and Futurism. Cubism, especially, was a major source of inspiration for the group, but traditionally it is often associated with the future due to erroneous assumptions such as care for dynamism (a peculiarity almost absent in the vortex, with the exception of Nevinson, artist that in the course of his career approached to Futurism), the age of the machine (a futuristic veneration which most Vorticists distrusted) and the abstract style. But the most obvious difference between these two movements is undoubtedly the way in which they treat to represent the moving image. In Vorticistic art reality of the modern condition is shown by an order of bold lines and discordant colors that lead the viewer right into the center of the work. Hence the interest in the movement of the vortex, its inevitable attraction. The term...
