One exhibition, one artist, two cities. The exhibit of Rob Johannesma is organized by the Marino Marini Museum in Florence and  Ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum.

The artist’s first solo show in Italy will take place contemporaneously in both institutions.

During the night of “Berlingaccio” (Carnival Thursday) in the city of Borgo San Lorenzo one can meet strange masked characters that play very suggestive scenes and tableau. They do not talk, only move silently and with elegance dressed in their Venetian-style dresses.

An exhibition about infancy is being hosted by the Florentine institution which most represents children: the Istituto degli Innocenti.

Figli d’Italia, Children of Italy, looks at the first fifty years of Italy as a united nation from a new point of view. This was a time when themes related to children and their care became part of the newly-born social politics of the united nation.

It’s now a hundred years since the death of Pellegrino Artusi, the father of Italian cuisine and the man behind Italian unification in culinary terms.

Born in Forlimpopoli in 1820, he died at just over 90 in 1911, having lived for sixty years in Florence.

Gioventù ribelle (rebel Youth) is an exhibition that illustrates ideas and actions of a group of people, usually quite young, that spend their lifetime seeking to realize an idea of freedom that arose from cultural philosophy, the literary Enlightenment as well as Romanticism.

For 150 years Florence, together with Rome, has possessed a National Library.
This cultural institution was born with the Kingdom of Italy by the fusion of two existing libraries, the Magliabechiana and the Palatina. Magliabechi was  librarian to Cosimo lll of the Medici family, while the Palatina was founded by Ferdinando lll of Lorena.

Le stanze dei tesori. Meraviglie dei collezionisti nei musei di Firenze (The Treasure Rooms. Collectors’ Wonders in the Florentine Museums) is a thoroughly ‘spread out’ exhibition which takes place in numerous museums in Florence and also Fiesole.

The starting point is an exhibition in Palazzo Medici Riccardi dedicated to art collecting between the end of the nineteenth and the twentieth century, when Italians and foreigners expressed their refined tastes through their unique collections.