Two exhibitions mark Italy's cultural August, from Rothko in Florence to new myths at the Macro

The exhibition “Rothko a Firenze,” staged at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, has been open since March 14 and remains open to visitors until August 23, 2026. The exhibition project is not confined to the spaces of Palazzo Strozzi: it also extends to the Museo di San Marco and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, two historic venues in the city that broaden the exhibition’s physical scope beyond its main location.

The choice to spread the exhibition across three separate venues means visitors must follow a route through different points of central Florence, with the closing date now set for the end of August: those intending to visit the exhibition therefore have a limited window of time before it concludes.

In Rome, the Macro - Museo di Arte Contemporanea is hosting, from August 5 to September 20, 2026, an exhibition dedicated to the emergence of new myths in the contemporary age. The sources available provide no further details on the specific content of the exhibition, on the artists involved or on the project’s curator, limiting themselves to indicating its general theme and its opening and closing dates.

The two exhibitions remain open, in part, over the same period, between mid- and late August, though they move on different registers: on one hand, a reinterpretation of a master of twentieth-century painting spread across several historic Florentine venues; on the other, a Roman exhibition dedicated to a more contemporary theme that is less defined in the details available. On the basis of the sources consulted, it is not possible to establish whether the two initiatives are linked by a shared project or whether they are entirely independent proposals.

It should be noted that both pieces of news currently come from a single source each: Civonline for the Florentine exhibition, Arte.it for the Roman one. No independent confirmation has been found for either initiative.

The two closing dates, August 23 for Florence and September 20 for Rome, remain the concrete reference points for anyone planning a visit in the coming weeks.