Florence, December 22 – Florence has a host of spectacular exhibitions lined up for the coming year, the Tuscan city’s museum chief Cristina Acidini announced on Tuesday.
Unveiling exhibitions for 2010, she said six major crowd-pullers were already in the pipeline, with several more to be finalized over coming months. Palazzo Pitti will host the first [...]
Naples, December 23 – Naples is celebrating the Baroque movement with a sweeping initiative encompassing 13 exhibitions and hundreds of artistic and decorative masterpieces. Six of the southern city’s museums are each hosting shows spanning a period of 150 years in total, starting with Caravaggio’s arrival in Naples in 1606.
Over 350 items are on display [...]
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1. Daniel Boulud’s Caviar – New York City
At $205, Daniel’s tasting menu is a relative bargain compared to other high-end Manhattan eateries but care for some caviar in the lounge before dinner? Fifty grams of Boulud’s private-label Caspian Sea Golden Ossetra caviar goes for $860.
2. The French Laundry – Napa Valley
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Perugia, December 15 – Two people suffered minor injuries during an earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale that struck Tuesday south of the central Italian city of Perugia.
The National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology reported the epicenter was 9 km below the surface near the Umbrian town of Spina sending cracks up the walls [...]
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Archeologists excavating a tomb in Jerusalem say they’ve found a burial shroud that dates to the time of Jesus — and they say its discovery proves the Shroud of Turin is inauthentic, the BBC reported on its Web site.
The scientists, from Israeli, Canadian and American institutions, say the burial cloth they’ve discovered is made with [...]
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Rome, November 9 – Photographer Gabriele Morrione’s portraits of women at a new show in Rome are not just faces but voices who tell visitors what they think about him and themselves.
”I wanted to give the sitters an opportunity to become active rather than passive subjects,” said Morrione who asked each to contribute a written [...]
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Venice, November 12 – Venice residents are to stage a mock funeral for the city Saturday to highlight the drastic shrinking of its native population.
Three gondolas will escort a red coffin along famed canals in a symbolic lament for the once-flourishing city’s decline.
In the 1950s there were some 300,000 native Venetians but the latest surveys [...]
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Siena, November 13 – Courtesy (http://www.ansa.it/) A medieval market that was once the heart of this Tuscan town is to flourish once more in Siena’s historic Piazza del Campo, the site of the world-famous Palio horse race each summer. The colours, sights, smells and sounds of the bustling weekly market will return to Siena’s beautiful [...]
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