Once you’ve toured the Doge’s Palace, take a look at a few more select exhibitions, concerts, and other activities that might be of interest while you’re visiting.
City Museum Exhibitions:
GLASS MINIATURES: Bomboniere dell'Artista
An extraordinary exhibition of over 400 never-before-seen glass bomboniere (wedding favors), from classic to contemporary, by international houses and artists from Barovier to Seguso to Tagliapietra to Scarpa to Chihuly to Ohira. Curated by Rosa Barovier, Sandro Pezzoli and Cristina Tonini.
€5, 10-18 daily (closed Tue) thru
Jun 01 2012
at the Palazzo Loredan, Campo Santo Stefano 2945
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City Museum Exhibitions:
DIANA VREELAND. After Diana Vreeland.
This is the first major exhibition dedicated to the extraordinary and complex Diana Vreeland (Paris, 1903 – New York, 1989), exploring the many facets of her work and offering a fresh approach to interpret elements of her style and thinking.
10-6pm daily (closed Tue) thru
Jun 25 2012
at the Palazzo Fortuny, San Marco 3958
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City Museum Exhibitions:
ERCOLE MORETTI: A Century of Venetian Pearls
EXTENDED. One of the most renown glass production houses of Murano celebrates their 100-year anniversary with an exhibition of Rosotta, Mosaic, Millefiori and Murrina beads and other prestigious glass objects.
€8; daily 10 - 6pm, thru
Jun 30 2012
at the Museo del Vetro, Murano
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City Museum Exhibitions:
CANALETTO: Venetian Sketchbook
The Palazzo Grimani provides a spectacular context for this exhibition that presents this collection of drawings from the famous notebook that laid the groundwork for his 18th c. paintings. Daily 8:15–7:15pm, til 2:15 on Mon. €6 (€11 with Accademia). Thru
Jul 01 2012
at the Palazzo Grimani @ S.M. Formosa
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City Museum Exhibitions:
KLIMT at the CORRER
Klimt: the Sign of Hoffman and the Secession is billed as "The Top Art Event in Italy in 2012." This monumental exhibit marks a start of a series of international collaborations by the Correr. An astounding number of works by Gustav Klimt (Judith series, the Golden Period), Hoffman and other contemporaries have come down from the Belvedere in Vienna, including "The Sunflower," donated to the Belvedere just ten days prior to the opening. Not to be missed.
€12; Daily 10am-7pm (discount for seniors, students, passes)
Jul 07 2012
at the Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco
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Private Galleries:
PICASSO e VOLLARD: The Genius and the Merchant
Featuring over 150 works, this rare exhibit (including 100 etchings from the Vollard Suite and The Minotaur) recounts the intense relationship between the art dealer Ambroise Vollard and Picasso, who would become the greatest artist of the twentieth century. €9, daily 10-7pm. Thru
Jul 08 2012
at the Palazzo Franchetti (Ponte Accademia)
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Private Galleries:
ELLIOTT ERWITT: Personal Best
A collection of the Paris-born American photographer's most unexpected, intriguing, charming, captivating works of the famous and the anonymous, spanning five decades and three-stories of this "three eyed" palazzo. Just wonderful.
€8; 10-7pm, Sat il 10pm. Closed Tue.
Jul 15 2012
at the Tre Oci, at Zitelle stop on Giudecca (Lines 2, 4)
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City Museum Exhibitions:
18th c PORCELAIN
View Ca’ Rezzonico's important selection of porcelains providing an overview of almost all major European manufacturers, from the famous Meissen to Sèvres and Vienna. The core of the collection is most obviously represented by the local production: Vezzi and Cozzi in Venice, Antonibon in Bassano.
Daily 10-5 (til 6 Apr-Oct), closed Tue.
Dec 31 2012
at the Ca' Rezzonico
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Sculpture: MORLAITER
Ca’ REZZONICO houses an extraordinary collection of sculptural sketch models: the entire collection from the studio of Venetian sculptor Giovanni Maria Morlaiter (1699-1781), one of the leading figures of eighteenth-century Venetian art.
Daily 10-5 (til 6 Apr-Oct, closed Tue) thru
Dec 31 2012
at the Ca' Rezzonico
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A Documentary Project of LivingVenice.org.
On a sunny day, watch schools of fish bob by the underwater webcam of the CNR sea tower in the high Adriatic.