Italy

At APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia, the artist’s first solo retrospective mainlines virility and homosocial tenderness as a foil to abject mementos of the AIDS crisis

In his first solo institutional exhibition at Centro Pecci, Prato, the artist’s intimate vignettes honour queer sensuality

The artist's latest show at Francesca Minini, Milan, celebrates the defiance of the unconforming

From the all-women programme at The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens to Marianna Simnett’s UEFA-inspired film

At Peres Projects, Milan, the artist's new video takes her idolization of My Chemical Romance to cinematic new levels

At Museion, Bolzano, 'HOPE' aims to stimulate individual and collective imaginations

At Sant’Andrea De Scaphis, Rome, the artist instils an apparently bucolic setting with a sinister undertone

At Fondazione Memmo, Rome, the artist’s new video reaffirms their identity outside of socialized norms and constructs

This year's edition, ‘Persons, Persone, Personen’, celebrates ecologically minded contemporary art that is joyful and sensual

Writer Thea Hawlin on Giulia Cenci’s dark installations, where the past, present and future converge

At Fondazione Memmo, Rome, the artist's latest installation voices concerns on power inequalities and global uneasiness

At Fondazione Prada, the artist’s site-specific installation plays on puns and cultural icons to debate identify politics through the story of a cartoon bear called Who

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

Why it’s not so simple to move art online – and other news from our Europe dispatch

As Italy comes under full lock-down, surveying the effects of a global health emergency

Flavia Frigeri discusses a very Roman take on modernism

‘Since Lucano was elected mayor in 2004, the town of Riace, located in one of the most impoverished regions of Italy, has welcomed thousands of refugees’

In further news: Lehmann Maupin gallery sues former employee for stealing ‘trade secrets’; was Robert Indiana in control of his final artworks?

Jan van Huysum’s ‘Vase of Flowers’ was stolen in 1943 by retreating German troops

In further news: Lothar Baumgarten dies at 74; Decolonize This Place plan Whitney protest; Italy demands return of Getty Bronze