First Roman one-man show of A. Calder works

For the first time in Rome, a major one-man exhibition featuring works by Alexander Calder gives us the opportunity to see up close the American artist’s famous Mobiles and Stabiles, wire sculptures, gouaches, drawings and oil painting and explore the fundamental stages of his creative cycle. From October 23, 2009 to February 14, 2010 the show at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni documents Calder’s entire creative cycle.
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The Age of Courbet and Monet

An exhibition rich of masterpieces that tell about the relationship between the Barbizon school of France and the diffusion of realism and naturalism in Central and Eastern Europe brings together from museums all over the world 134 works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh and many others who can be compared with the main painters of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. If you happen to be in Udine, visit The Age of Courbet and Monet at the majestic ensemble of Villa Manin in Passariano until March 7, 2010.
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Candida Höfer’s Florentine ‘Portraits of Spaces’

Twenty monumental photographs by the German photographer Candida Höfer can be seen at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi’s exhibition Candida Höfer In Italy, Part 1: Florence. Portraits of Spaces. The exhibition, which runs from December 11, 2009 to January 24, 2010, takes place under the auspices of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and gives the visitor a unique opportunity to see some of Florence’s most impressive interiors of libraries, museums and theatres gathered together in one show.
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Ben Hur Live!

Fifty years after the first screening of the legendary film starring Charles Heston, Ben Hur dazzles the audiences once again with a breathtaking combination of light, sound, water, wind and pyrotechnic effects in a show performed in the round, like an ancient arena. Ben Hur Live, the major arena extravaganza continues its European tour with thirty-five shows in the UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, France, Spain and Belgium selling out fast. Check out when and where the show performs until the end of January 2010 and book in advance.
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Placebo Battle for the Sun

With 38 gigs in 34 cities and 14 countries in Europe from October to the end of December, the legendary alternative rock band of Placebo completes their Euro-tour for 2009. The London-based trio of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest was founded back in 1994. Six studio albums, six EPs and 27 singles later, they gained a considerable amount of international recognition, and sold over ten million albums worldwide (one million in the UK alone). The promotion of their latest work Battle for the Sun brings them now to France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, UK and Ireland.
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Diana Krall’s Quiet Nights in Europe

With a Canadian and US tour now behind her, international jazz superstar Diana Krall is focusing on her remaining European trek behind her latest album, the Brazilian bossa nova-flavored Quiet Nights. The remaining part of her European leg in October and November 2009 is a hectic 37-date tour that spans 33 cities in 19 countries: France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, FYRoM, Serbia, Romania, Czech Rep. and Russia. If you’re anywhere close where she performs do not miss the opportunity.
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Art and Illusions

For the very first time in Italy an exhibition is telling the intriguing and spectacular story of trompe-l’œil, or optical deception -the story of the eternal challenge between reality and its simulation, not only in the context of painting but in the many different disciplines that have made it so universally popular in European art. The exhibition Art and Illusions. Masterpieces of trompe-l'œil from antiquity to the present is tracing the fascinating history of trompe-l'oeil, or the art of depicting something that is not real as though it were real, graces the splendid Renaissance rooms of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from October 16, 2009 to January 24, 2010.
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Dancing with the Dutch

The Nederlands Dans Theater has been a cultural ambassador of the Dutch since 1959, when it was founded. Giving sold-out performances all around the world, this is one of the leading dance companies worldwide. If you go to the Netherlands any time after November 2009 and until the end of May 2010, do not miss the opportunity to go to one of he NDT shows given in 24 cities around the country. But even if you cannot make it to the Dutch country, you might be lucky: the NDT may come to you! This season's European tour for the NDT runs until July 2010 and stops to France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Spain, Luxembourg and Norway.
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Depeche Mode touring the Universe

The English electronic band Depeche Mode returns to Europe to continue the Tour of the Universe 2009, after a long leg in the Americas. The trek is in support of the group's 12th studio album -Sounds of the Universe, released in April 2009- and takes them to 36 cities in 17 countries (Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, UK, Hungary, Czech Republic, Norway, Russia, Poland, Croatia) from October 31, 2009 to February 27, 2010.
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Massive Attack in Europe

The Massive Attack is launching a "huge" world tour to coincide with the release of their next album, tentatively titled Weather Underground, due in October on Virgin. More than 40 dates have been confirmed in the UK (Isle of Wight, London, Sheffield, Birmingham, Reading, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leicester, Swindon) and 18 countries in Europe (Ireland, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Czech. Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, France Portugal, Switzerland) from September to November 2009.
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Italian Futurism show continues in Venice

Exactly one hundred years after the publication in Le Figaro on February 20, 1909 of the Futurist Manifesto, signed by the ‘jeune poète italien’ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice opened the exhibition Masterpieces of Futurism at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to celebrate this revolutionary avant-garde movement. The exhibition featuring 24 paintings, 4 sculptures, 5 drawings and 2 woodcuts, runs through the end of the year, so if you have not seen it so far, don’t miss it when in Venice. This is a rare opportunity to see great works by the masters of Italian Futurism!
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Diamonds are forever…

A landmark show marking the 125th anniversary of the opening of the first Bulgari store in Rome is presented at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, which brings together nearly five hundred objects created between 1884 and 2009. The exhibition, which runs through September 13, intends to illustrate the origin and success of an absolutely distinctive style and, at the same time, celebrate the extraordinary technical and creative quality of the famous Roman maison.
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And yet it moves…

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical discoveries made by Galileo, the United Nations has dedicated 2009 as International Astronomy Year. To mark this anniversary, Florence pays tribute to the human and intellectual adventures of one of its greatest geniuses with a rich and spectacular exhibition: Galileo. Images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope is on display at the Palazzo Strozzi until August 30, 2009.
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