Biennale officials and Sicilian town council call on artist to honour his commitment to return controversial Barca Nostra exhibit after one year

Museum chief is asymptomatic and says he will continue working in quarantine

Researchers have identified nine buildings that require a “quick response” and a further 57 places of worship that could suffer from future cavity collapses

Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Cristina Canale, Vojtěch Kovařík, Paulo Nazareth and Brice Guilbert at Villa Era as clients seek a more rural art experience during pandemic

Culture minister Dario Franceschini reverses trend for appointing foreign leaders for its leading institutions

Polls show that Venetians are about to re-elect a populist mayor who promises to bring back all the tourists—but none of the other eight candidates has presented a realistic alternative

Contemporary art outpost of Rome museum will be housed in an 18th-century palace rebuilt with Russian government funds

Concerns raised about how the visitor gained access to the Paolina Bonaparte cast

Growing unease as the special relationship between the two countries gains momentum during the Covid-19 crisis

Massimo Minini and BelleArti are opening a show of 16 site-specific works in an underground car park in Brescia

Eike Schmidt says up to a thousand works are languishing in state-run stores all over Italy

From capped visitor numbers to surgical gloves and temperature checks, here's how cultural institutions are getting ready to leave lockdown

Italy retaliates with criminal prosecution of right-wing religious group funded by US President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist

Securing the loan extensions was “really easy” says director of the Scuderie del Quirinale

National spending package includes emergency support for state museums, arts organisations and cultural businesses

The fire is now under control, but the mayor warns people to stay indoors and keep their windows closed

Belgian museum director says his institution is “ready to serve as a test room”

Art history removes the numinous from art. At the Vatican’s Covid-19 blessing we saw it invoked again

Fourteen artists have been asked by the L’Internationale museum group to participate in the project, which supports artists with "quick, modest commissions"

Signatories include leaders at Rome's MaXXI Museum and Venice’s civic museums as well as the artist Paola Pivi

Video is part of Italy's "Culture never stops!" initiative providing online access to cultural and heritage sites

The Art Newspaper's founder-editor Anna Somers Cocks on the impact of Covid-19 on Turin, where she is in lockdown

Performance artist says we "must learn a lesson" from the disaster of the pandemic in her contribution to Palazzo Strozzi's new digital project

We speak to our journalists Anna Somers Cocks and Lisa Movius about their experiences of lockdown. Plus, we begin a new feature—Lonely Works—where we look at individual works of art that are now hanging unseen in galleries. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

Chinese artist's video is part of Palazzo Strozzi's new digital project for users during lockdown

He designed many prestigious buildings in Italy and internationally and led the visual arts section of the Venice Biennale twice in the 1970s

Images of clearer water and returning wildlife to the Italian city are being posted on social media

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

The biennial's 17th edition will now only run for three months rather than six

Lino Frongia was arrested in September as part of a major investigation involving works purportedly by Lucas Cranach, Frans Hals, Parmigianino, Gentileschi and Bronzino