VENICE: The decision to hold the Venice Film Festival despite the coronavirus pandemic is being hailed as a “sign of hope” for the movie world after months of...
ROSIGNANO SOLVAY-CASTIGLIONCELLO, Italy: Holidaymakers splash in the turquoise waters of the Rosignano Solvay beach in Tuscany and laze on its pristine white...
VENICE: The remains of the worst-known Mediterranean migrant shipwreck, in which up to 900 people died, will be exhibited at the prestigious Venice Biennale...
MATERA, Italy: Fifty years after Italy’s Matera was a national embarrassment because of its extreme poverty, the city is rescuing its dignity, Baroque...
FLORENCE, Italy: Five hundred years after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, a silk mill incorporating one of his designs is still shuttling some of the finest...
VATICAN CITY: It is like an episode of “Game of Thrones” without the explicit sex. New claims about mismanagement of the Catholic Church’s finances and...
ROME: Remember the showdown in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?” Well Ennio Morricone, one of the world’s greatest living composers, wants...
VENICE, Italy: For those weary of the “global disorder” of contemporary politics, the 57th Venice Biennale of contemporary art promises to lift the spirits of...
ROME: Rome has given birth to an ambitious “vanishing” artwork with William Kentridge’s completion of a giant frieze of the city’s...
ROME: As Europe struggles with an identity crisis, a new exhibition in Rome looks at the birth of European culture through ancient manuscripts and the...
VENICE, Italy: U.S. performance artist Laurie Anderson pays tribute to her late husband Lou Reed in “Heart of a Dog,” a cinematic contemplation of love and...
POMPEII, Italy: Pompeii is rising from the ashes again – despite the worst that Italy’s mafia, and bureaucracy, could throw at it. Buried during a volcanic...
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador: More than a million faithful - some of whom traveled for hours and spent the night outdoors - gathered Monday for the first open-air mass...
VENICE: Global architects like Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster are flying in to Venice for the city’s Biennale where new designs are in tune...
TURIN, Italy: Winds of change are sweeping through the dusty palazzos and abandoned ruins of Italy – as budget cuts in tough economic times force the...