Florence heading towards the close of Rothko show, Rome opens exhibition on new myths

In Florence, the major retrospective “Rothko a Firenze”, open since March 14 at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, is heading towards its conclusion: the exhibition will remain open to visitors until August 23, 2026. The exhibition project is not confined to the spaces of Palazzo Strozzi, but also extends to the Museo di San Marco and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, forming a route that crosses three historic venues of the city. This information currently comes from a single source, an article on the Civonline portal based on the Foundation’s press release; no further independent confirmations appear in the available excerpts.

In Rome, over the same period, MACRO — the capital’s Museum of Contemporary Art — is hosting, from August 5 to September 20, 2026, an exhibition dedicated to the theme of the birth of new myths in the contemporary age. In this case too the news comes from a single source, the exhibition calendar published by Arte.it, with no additional independent confirmations in the excerpts gathered.

The two exhibitions do not share a declared common theme, but their temporal overlap offers a picture of Italy’s museum offerings for August: on one side, the closing of a major monographic project dedicated to a twentieth-century master, spread across three Florentine venues of different natures — museum, convent, library —; on the other, the opening of a route dedicated to contemporary imagery in one of the capital’s more recent contemporary art museums. The available excerpts do not specify the artists involved in the Rome exhibition, nor the number of works on display at either venue.

For those wishing to visit the Florence exhibition, a window of less than two weeks remains before the closing date set for August 23; the Rome exhibition, opened just a few days ago, will instead have a longer run, until September 20.