Inspired by Picasso, an AP photographer visualizes a blind person ‘seeing’ art

Alessandra Tarantino has been working with The Associated Press in Italy since 2005. Based in Rome, she mainly covers the ...

Outside the Art World’s Echo Chamber, at Art Basel Qatar

More than half the exhibited artists were from the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia, giving visitors an opportunity to discover fresh voices.

An angel resembling Italy’s Meloni is painted over after an outcry from church and state

The Angel Meloni is no more. A painting of a cherub resembling Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has been painted over at the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina.

Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible for blind people

On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome’s Colosseum, a small group of people walked around ...
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For 10,000 Years, Valcamonica Rock Art Shows Italy's Societal Evolution

Some of the world’s earliest-known graffiti artists in Italy carved into rock tens of thousands of images from the mundane to the mystical, recording scenes from the twilight of the Stone Age to the ...