FLORENCE, Italy: After 77 days locked away due to coronavirus restrictions, the Michelangelos, Raphaels and other treasures of the Uffizi Galleries have gone...
VENICE: A modern “Arabian Nights” set in one of Africa’s most notorious prisons has become one of the breakout hits of the Venice film festival, snapped up by...
FLORENCE, Italy: The Renaissance really began in a few decades at the beginning of the 15th century in Florence – an artistic revolution mapped out in a...
ROME: Surprise victories for Italy's centre-left in securing the posts of speaker in both houses of parliament have done little to unblock a political impasse...
POMPEII, Italy: Conservation workers at the long-neglected Roman city of Pompeii began a 105-million euro ($142-million) makeover partly funded by the EU on...
VENICE: South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s “Pieta” and U.S. director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” are tipped as the...
VENICE: French director Olivier Assayas says with his new film “Apres mai” (“Something in the Air”), he wanted to pay tribute to the...
ROME: Italian police on Thursday probed deeper into the motivations of a man who has admitted setting off a bomb outside a vocational college in an attack...
BRINDISI, Italy: Italian police have arrested two suspects over the bombing of a school that killed a 16-year-old girl and seriously injured five more...
ROME: After slashing arts budgets and with its most famous monuments badly in need of repair, Italy’s government is increasingly looking to private...
VENICE: An array of sometimes disconcerting sights and sounds went on public display Saturday on the shores of the Venice lagoon for the Biennale contemporary...