(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 21 – From van Gogh to Escher, from Picasso to Kandinsky, and then Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Avedon, Zerocalcare, Jago, Banksy and TvBoy: great art will once again be one of the “gifts” this year to be unwrapped during the holiday season. In fact, the places of culture are preparing to welcome visitors at Christmas and Boxing Day as well as on December 31st, January 1st (which is the first Sunday of the month and is therefore free in museums and state archaeological parks) and at the Epiphany, with extraordinary openings also on Mondays (December 26th and January 2nd) and sometimes even with extended hours. Al Man di Nuoro, where “Picasso and Guernica. Genesis of a masterpiece. Against all wars” is set up, an exhibition that recalls the passage of the famous painting in Italy, no break for the holidays, with regular hours at Christmas and New Year’s. The Uffizi in Florence will be extraordinarily open on December 26th and January 2nd, and also on New Year’s Eve, for free Sundays, but will remain closed at Christmas. The great exhibitions of Arthemisia are also always open, from van Gogh at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome, where 50 works from the Kröller Müller Museum in Otterlo are exhibited, to “Jago, Banksy, TVboy and other counter-current stories” at Palazzo Albergati in Bologna (with 60 masterpieces that tell some of the most extreme and transgressive stories of Italian and international public art), from Escher to the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence (200 works that reveal the Dutch genius with the most iconic works of his production) to the homage to Zerocalcare with “Dopo il botto”, over 500 original plates, videos, sketches, illustrations and a site-specific work at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. Even the project “Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is holy”, divided into three exhibitions and conceived collectively by the Palaexpo Special Company of Rome, the National Galleries of Ancient Art and the Maxxi will be able to be explored and explored by the public thanks to the extraordinary openings foreseen in the respective museums (Palazzo Esposizioni, Palazzo Barberini and Maxxi always open but the last two not on Christmas day). At Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano the exhibition “Ron Galella, paparazzo superstar”, a journey through universal icons of cinema, art, music, pop culture and costume, can also be visited, with the exception of Christmas day, 26 December, 1 (from 3 pm) and 6 January. Extraordinary and extended openings (December 23 and January 6 until 9 pm) for the 2022 festivities in the Civic Museums of Venice: many exhibitions to see, from “Canova and Venice 1822-2022. Photographs by Fabio Zonta” at the Correr Museum, to ” Kandinsky and the avant-garde. Point, line and surface” at the Candiani Cultural Center in Mestre (closed here at Christmas). At the Palazzo Reale in Milan, the exhibition “Richard Avedon: Relationships”, which traces the more than sixty-year career of the photographer through 106 images, can be visited on 24-25-31 December, 1 and 6 January. In Perugia, the National Gallery of Umbria, with the exhibitions “Piranesi” (61 engravings taken from the series of Views of Rome belonging to the Perugia museum) and “Nunzio meets Perugino” (with the works created by Nunzio inspired by the Ranieri Annunciation, reflecting on its meaning, on the formal and spiritual values of Perugino’s masterpiece), will always be open (8.30-19.30), except on Christmas day. The Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence will be closed on December 25 but open on Boxing Day, January 1, Monday 2 and Friday 6 for the Epiphany. Extraordinary opening at the Bargello Museums on Monday 26 December and Friday 30 December from 8:15 to 18:00, Monday 2 January from 8:15 to 19, while on 8 January the opening hours will be 8:45-14 (24 and 31 December closing early at 6pm). The opening on Sunday 1 January will follow the ordinary hours, and on 2 January the Museum of Palazzo Davanzati will also be open on an exceptional basis. From Artemisia in Naples to the photography of Crewdson and Lisetta Carmi in Turin, from patrons such as Lorenzo the Magnificent and modern bankers and philanthropists in Milan to Magellan’s first enterprise around the world through the story of Antonio Pigafetta in Vicenza: also at the Gallerie d’Italia and in the other museums of the Intesa Sanpaolo museum network it will be celebrated with extraordinary openings (on 26 December and 2 January; closed at Christmas) and free admission (1 January). (HANDLE).
