What’s On

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.

Exhibitions:
MARILYN MONROE: Legend, Myth & Icon
A group of well-known international artists and photographers portray the Hollywood star in a wide selection of works, ranging from photographs, paintings, prints, collages and sculptures, from the very beginning to the highlights of her career and until Bert Stern's famous “Last Sitting” shot just a few days before her mysterious death in 1962.

Daily 10-6pm.
20 Dec 2011
28 Feb 2012
at the Palazzo Bembo
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FAVAI: Visions and Horizons
A major retrospective exhibition that aims to discover, trace, and document, through more than 200 works, with paintings, drawings, watercolors and etchings — the entire artistic itinerary of Gennaro Favai (Venice 1879-1958).

8; til 6 Apr-Oct, til 5 Nov-Mar. Closed Tue.
17 Dec 2011
11 Mar 2012
at the Ca' Pesaro
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Masterpieces of Japanese Photography, 1860-1910
Over 150 images (mostly albumen prints, watercolor by hand) from a private collection, considered the largest collection of its kind.

10-18 daily; closed Tue.
17 Dec 2011
01 Apr 2012
at the Palazzo Franchetti (at ponte Accademia)
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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.
15 Dec 2011
31 Dec 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.
15 Dec 2011
31 Dec 2012
at the Ca' Rezzonico
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Exhibitions:
MURANO: an Island, an Art, a Museum
A major GLASS exhibition that traces 150 years of history, in nearly 200 works, including the most representative of the Museum’s collection, illustrative of the uniqueness of execution, along with new, unseen works.

€8; Daily 10-5pm (til 6pm in April)
10 Dec 2011
30 Apr 2012
at the Museo di Vetro, Murano
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Exhibitions:
ERCOLE MORETTI: A Century of Venetian Pearls
One of the most renown workshops 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 - 5pm (til 6pm in April)
10 Dec 2011
30 Apr 2012
at the Museo del Vetro, Murano
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Homage to LORENZO LOTTO
An exhibition featuring works from European Museums together the Accademia's own collection along with two early 16th c paintings lent from the Museum of St. Petersberg that have rarely, if ever, been seen in Italy before. €11 (museum and exhibition); closed Mon 2pm, Last entrance 18:30.
24 Nov 2011
26 Feb 2012
at the Galleria Accademia
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VASSILIEV: Elegance in Exile
The story of the cultural atmosphere and ambience of the Russian intelligentsia and the international prestige of Diaghilev’s famous Ballets Russes (1909-1929). More than 200 works are presented in the evocative reception rooms of Palazzo Mocenigo – Study Centre for the History of Textiles and Costume.

€5, daily 10-4; closed Mon.
17 Oct 2011
29 Feb 2012
at the Palazzo Mocenigo
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Exhibitions:
Impermanenza: TEODOLINA CAORLIN in Venice
An engaging, comprehensive retrospective on Caorlin's long and critical path in fiber art, as well as premiere of Animula vagula blandula, in a new installation composed of seven tapestries of large dimensions in this artist’s unique style.

€5, daily 10-4; closed Mon.
14 Jan 2011
13 Mar 2012
at the Palazzo Mocenigo
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