DOGE'S PALACE | MANET - Return to Venice

Manet. Return to Venice is the name of the exhibition the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia will host from 24th April to 18th August 2013 in the monumental rooms of the Doge's Palace. It will include about 80 paintings, drawings and prints, and has been planned with the special collaboration of the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, which possesses the largest number of masterpieces by this extraordinary painter.

Times from Sunday to Thursday, from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm - Friday and Saturday, from 9.00 am to 8.00 pm
Price Full price ticket: € 13.00 Reduced price ticket: € 11.00
Info +39 041 8520154
Notes Special reduction: € 7,00
MUVE Friend Card holders; St. Mark's Square Museums ticket holders (to be bought in the same time, on sale only in the Doge's Palace ticket office)
until 18th of August 2013

BIENNALE - EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN | Jardins de Castello et Space à L'Arsenal

La 55eme Exposition Internazionale d'Art, sera ouverte au public de Samedi 1 Juin à Dimanche 24 Novembre 2013, dans les Giardini, Arsenale, et dans plusieurs lieux de Venise.

www.labiennale.org

DOGE'S PALACE | Venetian fortresses in the Mediterranean

From 8 March to 22 September 2013 - Hosted in the hold of the Serene Republic's "might", this display reconstructs the Venetian military defence systems and fortress strongholds of the Stato da Mar sea-state, through interesting material at the Cartography Cabinet and the Correr Museum library.

Illustrations of forts and fortresses sprung up in the strategic and most sensitive locations along Venetian maritime routes in the Mediterranean, in order to make vital trading with the East safe, may be admired at the exhibition.

Architectural essays also follow, explaining the crucial role of Corfu and Cyprus and projects for the Morea, continually exposed to resurgent Turkish expansion after being recaptured by Francesco Morosini in the late 17th century.
open until 22 September 2013

DOGE'S PALACE - SALA SCRUTINIO
Piazzetta San Marco
Boat stop San Marco Boat Lines 1 - 2 ACTV
Times Open: 8.30am - 5.30pm (last tickets at 4.30pm)
Price St. Mark's Square Museums ticket, € 16, concessions € 8.00
www.palazzoducale.visitmuve.it

Day of the Redentore | 20-21 July 2013

St. Mark's Basin and Island of Giudecca, 20-21 July 2013

Traditional holiday celebrating the Redeemer: procession over a pontoon bridge. Holy Mass, fireworks show over the lagoon, related events and boat races.

Web site: www.veneziamarketingeventi.it


A sensational, greatly effective picture, the basin of St. Mark lit up in the night by multicoloured reflections.
It is the fête of the Redeemer, the most appealing rendez-vous in July, the most important event dedicated to ancient city traditions together with Carnival and the Historic Regatta. Every year, for over four centuries, it returns on the third Sunday of the month with its ancient rites: the procession to the church on the Giudecca over a floating bridge and the great nocturnal fête on the water in St. Mark's basin.

Ever since 1592, a procession, made up of the top city authorities, has been opening the pilgrimage to the church, aided by a long floating bridge over the Giudecca Canal. Thus the great fête of the Redeemer began, becoming the most popular one in the Republic.
As time went by, a lay celebration accompanied the religious one, as an expression of joy... for the liberation from all evils and the triumph of life over all pain. In time, a great fête on the water was added to the pilgrimage and the religious functions, with its hub centred right on the famed church looking out towards St. Mark and as its scenario, the entire basin before it. That night thus passed into history as la notte famosissima or most famous of nights.

Even nowadays it is the apex of the fête. Hundreds of boats of all kinds and sizes gather in the basin and along its quays, some decorated with flowers, greenery and coloured balloons, according to ancient traditions. The evening goes by among songs, music and a traditional supper while awaiting the grand finale: the fireworks display (foghi) over the water. But the party does not end here. Songs and dancing continue at the Lido, where the more tenacious may admire the very last, or better, the first spectacle of the new day: the sun rising from the sea.

Everybody can take part in the night of the Redeemer, either from a private boat, or from the quays, as well as from buildings overlooking the basin. Numerous private palaces, hotels, restaurants offer the opportunity for enjoying the show on land in a relaxed way. Packages offered by tourist agencies are also numerous, for spending the evening on a boat or on small ships arriving in the lagoon for the occasion, in whichever case, the evening will be a memorable one.

PALAZZO GRASSI |

PALAZZO GRASSI
Campo San Samuele 3231
Boat stop San Samuele Boat Line 2 ACTV
30/08/2012 - 13/01/2013
from 10am to 7pm Tickets € 15.00 / € 20.00*; concessions: € 10.00 / € 15.00*
www.palazzograssi.it

First exhibition at palazzo Grassi dedicated to moving images by the François Pinault Collection.
Set up for the occasion of the 69th international Venice Film Festival, it will highlight the strong link between the city on the lagoon and cinema, presenting around thirty works among films, videos and installations, by 25 artists.

The works will be displayed within the lobby and the first noble floor at Palazzo Grassi, along a showcase circuit underling the great diversity existing among various media, different screening facilities and the various ways of relating oneself to space and time.

Amongst the works present is For Beginners by Bruce Nauman, purchased by François Pinault in 2011, presented here as a European premiere.

Curator Caroline Bourgeois. A catalogue will be published on opening the showcase, with a collection of interviews by all the artists exhibiting.

Fragile? | GIORGIO CINI FOUNDATION

GIORGIO CINI FOUNDATION
Island of San Giorgio
Boat stop San Giorgio - Boat Line 2 ACTV
Times 10am - 7pm Closed on Wednesday
admission free
web site www.cini.it

LE STANZE DEL VETRO is a long term joint initiative between Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung devoted to studying the art of glassmaking in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The project will mark the opening of a new permanent exhibition space designed to host a series of solo and group shows featuring international artists, both contemporary and historical, who have used glass during their careers as an orginal means of expression and medium for researching their own personal aesthetics. The aim is to illustrate the numerous potential uses of the medium and put glass back at the centre of attention and discussion on the international art scene.

On 8 April 2013, Fragile?, an exhibition curated by Mario Codognato, will open to the public on the San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice. The exhibition will feature 28 artworks by some of the most interesting international artists.

In the context of Venetian glassmaking and its peculiar artisan connotations, Fragile? aims at taking a different, yet equally important, aspect into account, namely the use of glass as a found object, with specific metaphorical and linguistic features. Instead of the precise traits of manufactured artworks, other aspects will be highlighted, such as symbolic transparency, fragility and resistance, imprecision and smoothness, along with the construction of elements that draw inspiration from reality and contemporary artistic language.

«In the 21st century, because of historical avant-gardes, visual arts cease to be a sole mimesis of reality through painting and sculpture - states curator Mario Codognato - By using objects and materials taken from the real world and industrial production, a new metaphoric, yet tautologically concrete, dimension is born. Glass, thanks to its widespread use in architecture and its double nature of transparent medium and at the same time barrier, becomes a new linguistic tool through which to create images».

Fragile? displays the creations of some of the most interesting artists of our time, who used glass with diverse and contrasting intentions: from the provoking gesture of Marcel Duchamp of shutting the air of Paris in a transparent ampoule, to the tragic lyricism of Joseph Beuys's glass fragments as a witness to the ferociousness of earthquakes, from the transformation of industrial objects into poetical individualities by Luciano Fabro to the ironic explosion of car windscreens in a Pipilotti Rist video.

Seen as a whole, the works and artists exhibited in Fragile? translate the infinite potentialities of glass into unprecedented dialectics which inevitably have to do with our daily existence, as a constitutive element of contemporary artistic language.

Fragile? presents works by: Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Mario Merz, Gerhard Richter, Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Barry le Va, Michael Craig-Martin, Keith Sonnier, Lawrence Weiner, David Hammons, Gilbert & George, Joseph Kosuth, Giuseppe Penone, Mona Hatoum, David Batchelor, Ai Weiwei, Pipilotti Rist, Rachel Whiteread, Carsten Nicolai, Damien Hirst, Monica Bonvicini, Ceal Floyer, Cyril de Commarque, Matias Feldbakken, Walead Beshty, Claire Fontaine.

Robert Motherwell: the early collages | PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Dorsoduro 701/704 - Venezia
Daily 10 am - 6 pm Closed Tuesday, and December 25

web site www.guggenheim-venice.it

from 26 May at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, a focused exhibition devoted exclusively to Robert Motherwell's papier collés and related works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s.

It will re-examine the origins of the artist's style and his revelatory encounter with the papier collé technique that he described in 1944 as "the greatest of our [art] discoveries." Motherwell produced both abstracted figural collages and pure abstractions throughout the 1940s.

However, by 1955 the Surrealist influences prevalent in these first works had given way to his distinctive mature style firmly rooted in Abstract expressionism. Robert Motherwell: Early Collages will feature a compelling group of approximately 60 works drawn from the holdings of institutions and private collections in the United States and abroad.

A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue performed by Susan Davidson will offer a vital reassessment of Motherwell's work in the collage medium.

MERCATINO DELL’ANTIQUARIATO SAN MAURIZIO |

MERCATINO DELL’ANTIQUARIATO SAN MAURIZIO

20-21-22 SETTEMBRE
20-21-22 DICEMBRE


Oggetti semplici o prodotti di grandi Maisons, di autori sconosciuti o di grandi maestri si celano tra i banchi di Campo San Maurizio, a pochi minuti da Piazza San Marco in occasione del Mercatino dell’antiquariato. Una tradizione che si ripete per quattro fine settimana ogni anno dal 1970.

www.mercatinocamposanmaurizio.it

MERCATINI A VENEZIA 2013 |

Mercatino dei Miracoli - Campo Santa Maria Nova

Sabato 11 e domenica 12 settembre
Sabato 9 e domenica 10 ottobre
Sabato 11 e domenica 12 dicembre

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Mercatino delle Robe da Mar - Via Garibaldi

Domenica 26 settembre
Domenica di ottobre in concomitanza con la Venice Marathon

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Mercatino Polvere di Ricordi - Rialto e Campo Sant'Agnese

SAbato 2 e domenica 3 ottobre Campo S. Silvestro
Sabato 20 e domenica 21 novembre (Campo Sant’Agnese in concomitanza con la festività della Madonna della Salute)

GRAN TEATRO LA FENICE | Campo San Fantin - San Marco,1965

Madama Butterfly
Teatro La Fenice

Giugno 2013: 21 - 22 - 23 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30

Otello
Cortile di Palazzo Ducale

Luglio 2013: 10 - 14 - 17


La traviata
Teatro La Fenice

Agosto 2013: 30 - 31
Settembre 2013: 1 - 3 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 17 - 19 - 21 - 24 - 25 - 27 - 28

Carmen
Teatro La Fenice

Settembre 2013: 15 - 18 - 20 - 22 - 29
Ottobre 2013: 16 - 18 - 26

L'elisir d'amore
Teatro La Fenice

Ottobre 2013: 13 - 15 - 19 - 25 - 30

Madama Butterfly
Teatro La Fenice

Ottobre 2013: 12 - 17 - 20 - 24 - 27 - 29 - 31

http://www.teatrolafenice.it/index.php

web www.teatrolafenice.it

TEATRO MALIBRAN | Campiello Malibran

ASPERN
Teatro Malibran

Ottobre 2013: 2 - 4 - 5 - 8 - 10

web www.teatrolafenice.it

ACCADEMIA GALLERIES | Polo Museale Veneziano Museum

One of the most important museums in Italy, essential for the study of 14th to 18th century art history.

Times
Tuesday-Sunday 8.15am-7.15pm / Monday 8.15am-2pm
Closed 25 December, 1 January, 1 May
Price
Admission: € 6,50 disc. € 3,25; Free for EU citizens ages 18 or younger and ages 65 or older.
Info
Call Center 041.520.03.45.
Notes
Ticket inclusive Ca' d'Oro and Oriental museums € 11/ 5,50
web site
www.gallerieaccademia.org

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION |

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION

Times Open 10am - 6pm - closed on Tuesday

Famous residence-museum of the U.S. patroness of the arts Peggy Guggenheim. Masterpieces by representatives of the main 20th-century art currents and avant-garde movements. Gianni Mattioli Collection.
Nasher Sculpture Garden.

web site www.guggenheim-venice.it

Il genio di Leonardo da Vinci | SCOLETTA SAN ROCCO

Una mostra propone attraverso un'esposizione di modelli alcuni i progetti originali di Leonardo. Le macchine, appartenenti ai settori più diversi, da quelle volanti a quelle per la guerra, dai dispositivi meccanici all'ingegneria civile, si possono manovrare e vedere in funzione.
L'esposizione è prodotta dalla Fondazione Anthropos, fondatrice del Museo della Scienza "Il genio di Leonardo" che ha sede presso le Sale del Bramante a Roma


Orario Orario: dalle 9.30 alle 18.30 (biglietteria 17.30)
Prezzo Ingresso € 7,00, ridotto € 5,00.
Come arrivare
Coordinate GPS:
12.326719
45.436816.
Info Info tel. 06.360.04.224

- www.fondazioneanthropos.com

Le macchine di Leonardo - mostra pemanente | CHIESA DI SAN BARNABA

Circa 40 modelli di varie dimensioni e tipi, fedelmente riprodotti da disegni originali, presentano una panoramica sul vastissimo repertorio di invenzioni leonardesche: dall'edilizia alla meccanica, dall'idraulica alle macchine da guerra, fino al volo. Con le "machine" (tutte interattive) sono esposti alcuni noti disegni di Leonardo e disponibili alcuni computer con cd-rom.

Luogo CHIESA DI SAN BARNABA
Indirizzo Campo San Barnaba
Fermata ACTV Ca' Rezzonico Linea 1 ACTV

Orario di apertura: 9.30 - 19.30.
Prezzo Ingresso € 8.00 ridotti € 5.00. Gruppi/scolaresche € 3,00.
Come arrivare
Coordinate GPS:
12.325201
45.433097.
Info Info tel. 339.798.54.64
web www.macchinedileonardo.com

Secret Trails At Doge's Palace |

Not accessible with the standard ticket, these tours take the visitor into the most secret and fascinating rooms in the Palace; the tours are all with a specialised guide, for a minimum of 2 people and a maximum of 25; they start at fixed times according to the following schedule:

Italian 9.30; 11.10
English 9.55 10.45; 11.35
French 10.20; 12.00

After 1pm tours can be arranged at various times, with an additional payment of 31 Euros per group (suspended from 1st July to 31 August).

The tour is about 1 hour and 15 minutes long.
The ticket including the guided tour to the itineraries and also access (without a guide) to the Doge's Palace

web site

www.museiciviciveneziani.it

ITINÉRAIRES ET PROMENADES ALTERNATIVES | Je me suis perdu…

SAN FRANCESCO DELLA VIGNA
ÎLE DE SAN FRANCESCO DEL DESERTO
ÎLE DE SAN LAZZARO DEGLI ARMENI - tel. 041- 526 0104 - ACTV Ligne 20 de San Zaccaria à 14,45 heures
MUSÉE HISTORIQUE NAVAL
INSTITUT HELLÉNIQUE - Icônes du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle
PALAZZO GRIMANI – Santa Maria Formosa
CIMETIÈRE DE SAN MICHELE (Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Pound, Helenio Herrera)
SCALA CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO
ÎLE DE SANT'ERASMO

MUSÉES | Venice Explorer

GALLERIE DELL'ACCADEMIA
CA' REZZONICO - Meubles vénitiens du 18e siècle
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
ITINÉRAIRES SECRETS AU PALAIS DES DOGES – Demande de réservations de visites guidées 0039 -041 271 5911
MUSEO CORRER
FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA
CA' D'ORO

THE CHURCHES OF CHORUS | Chorus Venice Churches association

The initiative offers an unusual wide-ranging museum to the visitors of the lagoon town: the city churches, places of worship but also important art treasure containers.
One thousand years of history and faith speak out through their walls, the paintings, the sculptures, the gold and precious textiles.
Chorus Venice Churches Association contributes to the conservation and enhancement of this immense heritage and favours its acquaintance through a museum circuit linking sixteen amongst the greatest examples of religious architecture in Venice.
The member churches within this museum circuit and which may be visited with a specific € 10.00 (Chorus Pass) ticket are:
St. Mary of the Lily, St. Stephen, St. Mary Formosa, St. Mary of the Miracles, St. John the Merciful, St. Paul, St. James dall'Orio, St. Eustace, St. Aloysius, Madonna of the Orchard, St. Peter of Castello, Very St. Redeemer, St. Mary of the Rosary (The Gesuati), St. Sebastian, St. Job.

Price € 10,00 (Chorus Pass)
information tel. 041.275.04.62.
e-mail web site
info@chorusvenezia.org
www.chorusvenezia.org

VAPORETTO DELL'ARTE - Canal Grande |

What it Offers


The Vaporetto dell’Arte offers visitors new opportunities to get around Venice’s main centre.

Just some good reasons to choose this service are:
¦It operates 7 days a week from 10am until 7pm, with services running from terminals every 30 minutes.
¦Amenities and comfort: our boats are equipped with comfortable seats with a multilingual audio and video system. For optimum results, around 80 seating and 20 standing places are guaranteed (at the discretion of our on board personnel)
¦Hop-on/hop-off system. For as long as your ticket is valid, you can get on and off as you please, stopping to visit the museums, monuments, theatres and exhibitions. There are over 20 prestigious seats of Venetian artistic and cultural heritage.

To follow the route and get around along the Grand Canal, every seat is equipped with a monitor, while the audio will be available in 6 languages (italian, english, french, german, russian and spanish), which you will be able to select on your own seat, also equipped with a headphones connection.

On board a free welcome kit will be given out, containing a summary of the route and the main information on the partner institutions, as well as the reductions for “Vaporetto dell’Arte” customers and the disposable headphones for the audio guide.

http://www.vaporettoarte.it/

CASINO' DI VENEZIA | Ca' Vendramin Calergi - Ca' Noghera

Il Casinò di Venezia, fondato nel 1638, è la casa da gioco più antica del mondo. successivamente negli anni trenta viene costituito il Casinò di Venezia al Lido di Venezia. Nel 1946 il comune di Venezia acquista Ca' Vendramin Calergi per aprire, al secondo piano di tale edificio, la sede per il centro storico.

Nel 1999 è stato inaugurato a Ca' Noghera un nuovo casinò con la peculiarità di essere il primo casinò all'americana aperto in Italia.[2] Attualmente l'attività è gestita dall'azienda Casinò Municipale di Venezia Spa

info web www.casinovenezia.it/