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Events Venice
Wednesday 16 August 2017
Philip Guston and the poets
Category: Art exhibitions
Time: From 10/05/0017 to 03/09/2017
the exhibition includes 50 major paintings and 25 prominent drawings dating from 1930. The exhibition draws parallels between the essential humanist themes reflected in these works and the language of five poets: D. H. Lawrence (British, 1885 1930), W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865 1939), Wallace Stevens (American, 1879 1955), Eugenio Montale (Italian, 1896 1981) and T. S. Eliot (American-born, British, 1888 1965).
Where: Campo della Carità
City: Venice
Gran Teatro La Fenice
Category: Theatre
Time: all year
Opened in 1792, it is still today the main opera in Venice. He has hosted many important opera inaugural works, such as "Tancredi" by Gioacchino Rossini in 1813 and Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" in 1851. Destroyed in an arson in 1996 was rebuilt in the same way as the original one. The important lyric season is available on the theater website.
City: Venice
Teatro Stabile del Veneto Carlo Goldoni: theatrical season
Category: Theatre
Time: all year
The Carlo Goldoni Theater was inaugurated in 1622 and is the oldest theater in Venice still existing today. It is a magnificent Italian theater with 800 seats, near the Rialto Bridge, in the historic center of Venice. The billboard can be consulted on the theater website.
Where: Teatro Goldoni
City: Venice
Accademia Galleries
Category: Museums
Time: all year
The museum houses the richest collection of Venetian paintings from the 14th to the 19th century: Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Tiepolo, to reach the eighteenth-century Vedutists such as Canaletto, Guardi and Bellotto. The venue is the prestigious Great School of Santa Maria della Carità, one of the oldest secular confraternities in Venice.
Where: Campo della Carità
City: Venice
Mark Tobey: Threading Light
Category: Art exhibitions
Time: From 06/05/2017 to 10/09/2017
Organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, it will be the first comprehensive exhibition of Mark Tobeys distinctive and original work in more than forty years and will provide further insight into his intriguing oeuvre and its complicated and contradictory receptions in the United States and abroad. Curated by independent scholar Debra Bricker Balken, the exhibition will include approximately eighty paintings from the late 1920s until his last works of the 1970s and will be accompanied by a catalogue published in English and Italian editions.
Where: Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
City: Venice
