Roy Lichtenstein - Pop Variations
In Parma - Palazzo Tarasconi - until 18 June 2023
Parma pays homage to Roy Lichtenstein, 100 years after his birth, with a major retrospective of more than 50 works from prestigious European and American collections. The exhibition traces the entire artistic career of one of the masters of Pop Art that I like most (Keith Haring arrives in September, again in Parma) 
Felice Casorati
Magnani Rocca Foundation from 18 March to 2 July
While you are in Parma you shouldn't miss the exhibition dedicated to Felice Casorati.
From 18 March to 2 July 2023 at the Magnani Rocca Foundation, over 60 masterpieces will be exhibited in this great retrospective, organized in collaboration with the Mart of Trento and Rovereto (a guarantee in my humble opinion), which tells the story of the life and work of one of the greatest Italian painters of the last century, documenting each season of his art and his favorite themes, starting with music, the fil rouge of the exhibition. 
Andy Warhol - Serial Identity
Gallarate - Maga Museum until June 18th.
Staying on the pop art theme, you can't miss this exhibition which tells the story of the iconic Warhol in 200 works. There are also the series of vinyl covers produced for the Velvet Underground and Rolling Stones!
If you then go to the bookshop you will find many themed products that we at Saypaper have procured specifically for the exhibition ;)
Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Florence - Palazzo Strozzi from today until 18 June 2023.
After the great solo exhibitions of Jeff Koons (whom I adored) and Olafur Eliasson (whom I missed), in 2023 a parade of contemporary art stars - including Maurizio Cattelan and Damien Hirst - will occupy all the spaces of Palazzo Strozzi, from the main floor to the Strozzina, to the Renaissance courtyard. Right here the work GONOGO - by the artist Goshka Macuga - was installed for the occasion - a monumental space rocket that invites you on a journey with multiple meanings.
It should be noted that Reaching for the Stars was born with the desire to create a platform for experimentation and participation. The works from the collection and the new productions created for the exhibition join an extensive program of activities and projects with the artists featured in talks and workshops, it is worth taking a look at the programme.
Among other things, you are a few steps from the new Coin Store where you will find the Saypaper corner ;) 
Ettore Sottsass-The word
Milano Triennale - until 2 April 2023
An exhibition project focused on the theme of the word dedicated to the great architect, photographer and designer, winner of the Compasso d'Oro in 1969, 1979 and 1989. The intent was to propose a visual and literary anthology capable of representing the essence of Sottsass's original narrative vein, through a selection of drawings, objects, writings and unpublished works. I liked it a lot.
"The use of the word in Sottsass is very archaic, his writing, almost always in capital letters, has a precise calligraphic status, always comprehensible, and transmits an accessible expressive code. It is a verbo-visual art where the fusion of the word, its manipulation, the combination with drawings, objects, puts, adds or alters concepts to representations and processes to forms." 
Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige. Geishas, samurai and the myths of Japan
Turin Sale of the Palace of the Promoter of Fine Arts until 25 June.
I have an incredible passion for Japanese people and their culture, I would live on ramen and Japanese stationery so I can't help but point out this Turin exhibition.
The major protagonists of Ukiyo-e, a refined artistic genre that marked the cultural history of Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries and also influenced modern Western art, in a thematic itinerary with over 300 masterpieces.
The term Ukiyo-e, which means "images of the floating world", refers to the color woodblock prints born in the Edo period from the meeting between the talent of painters such as Utamaro, Hokusai and Hiroshige and the absolute mastery of matrix engravers and printers. They are the highest aesthetic expression of what could be defined as a civilization of pleasure: not a hedonistic pleasure but the fruit of the awareness that the beauties and joys of life end sooner or later and that for this reason they must be experienced fully, in every their shape. 
Renoir and Italy
Rovigo Palazzo Roverella until 25 June 2023 to nourish our romantic soul.
The exhibition tells the creative revolution that the famous impressionist painter experienced after a trip to Italy in which, between Mediterranean beauties and Renaissance art, he was able to savor our country, capturing the uniqueness that distinguishes it (in particular he was kidnapped by Raphael).
"Leaving space for this new sensitivity, made of warm and sparkling tones, in which we find references to myth and the exaltation of the poetics of family affections, Renoir anticipated various aspects of the "return to order" that would assert itself between the two wars ." 
Perugino in his time
Perugia - National Gallery of Umbria from today until 11 June 2023
Not many words are needed here, personally, together with Piero della Francesca, he is among my favorite artists of the Italian Renaissance. In the rooms of the National Gallery of Umbria, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Perugino's death, it will be possible to admire the masterpieces from before 1504 by "the best master in Italy". 
Inge Morath. Photographing from Venice
Venice - Palazzo Grimani Museum until 4 June 2023
The Palazzo Grimani Museum in Venice (among other things, a spectacular place in itself) celebrates the figure of the photographer Inge Morath with a new section for Italy dedicated to the lagoon city where her career began.
It was Venice itself, the atmosphere of the lagoon and her friendship with Robert Capa, that made her become a photographer, the first woman of the Magnum Photos Agency.
“I was all excited. I went to the place where I wanted to take my photographs and stopped: a street corner where people passed in a way that seemed interesting to me. I adjusted the camera and pressed the shutter button as soon as I saw that everything was exactly as I wanted. It was like a revelation. Realizing in an instant something that had remained inside me for so long, capturing it in the moment in which it had taken the form that felt right. After that, there was no stopping me.”
If, like me, you deeply love Venice, the real Venice, this exhibition is unmissable. 
Hervé Guibert: This and More
Rome - Macro from 9 March until 21 May 2023
I can't wait to see this one! I love Guibert's portraits, which are the ones that made him famous, but this exhibition presents a selection of photographs that explore unusual subjects and which are characterized precisely by the absence of the human element: the photographs do not contain faces but inanimate objects , interiors and domestic spaces full of memories and emotions that evoke the presence of off-screen characters.
A good photograph, in Guibert's words, is not necessarily one that makes a person or place visible, but one that is "faithful to the memory of my emotion".
