Autumn Notes from Four Seasons Hotel Firenze: The Best Exhibitions, Music and Theatre

Celebrating the arrival of the new season in Florence

2012-08-21 — /travelprnews.com/ — According to the readers of Travel + Leisure, the New York-based magazine that has become the bible of quality leisure travel fans, there is one city in Europe that stands highest on the podium of best places to visit. It is Florence, which ranks second in the world after Bangkok and before Istanbul, Cape Town and Sydney. Four SeasonsHotel Firenze celebrates the magazine’s 2012 World’s Best Cities Awards as one of the entities that contributes, through its quality services, to Florence’s reputation among tourists.

The 2012 World’s Best Cities Award to Florence marks the beginning of autumn, a season heralding great news.

Exhibitions: From September 13 to October 14, the National Alinari Museum of Photography houses the exhibition Akyiyoshi Ito – Sogni sott’acqua. The Japanese painter and sculptor comes to Florence for the first time to show his “miracles beneath the waves.” Opening on September 22 at Palazzo Strozzi, the exhibition The Thirties. The arts in Italy beyond Fascism, offering a narrative of Italy during the Fascist period, a time of great artistic development from Classicism to Futurism, from Expressionism to Abstraction, and from monumental art to salon painting. Showing until January 27.

From October 5, at the Strozzina Center of Contemporary Culture,Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art,featuring paintings by Francis Bacon compared with works by five world-famous contemporary artists (Nathalie Djurberg, Adrian Ghenie, Arcangelo Sassolino, Chiharu Shiota, Annegret Soltau), who share Bacon’s interest in man’s existential condition and pictorial representation of the human figure. Until January 27.

Showing until November 4 is the exhibition Arte torna Arte, held at the Accademia Gallery and including works by Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Antonio Catelani, Martin Creed, Sol LeWitt, Pablo Picasso, Alfredo Pirri, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Renato Ranaldi, Alberto Savinio, Thomas Struth, Fiona Tan, Bill Viola, Andy Warhol and many others. Palazzo’s Pitti Costume Gallery houses, until December 9, The New Frontier. History and culture of Native Americans from the Gilcrease Museum Collections, featuring major vestiges of the Native American civilization.

Music: On Sunday September 23, a live concert promising to be an unforgettable experience: that of the British rock band Radiohead at Florence’s Cascine Park. Performing on November 16, at the Verdi Theatre, is one of the best-known Italian singers and songwriters: Paolo Conte.

Theatre: The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s season opens with a great ballet performance by MaggioDanza. Two legendary choreographers, Jirí Kylián and Angelin Preljocaj, and the rising star of choreography Andonis Foniadakis present Sechs Tanze, from September 27 to 30.La Pergola Theatre offers a rich program of fall premiering shows, among which is Orlando Furioso, starring Stefano Accorsi, from November 20 to 25.

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