The week on TV, from Marinetti’s plane to Munch’s grand theft – Arte.it

Sky Arte appointments
An art-loving thief, a quirky detective and one of the most famous paintings in art history. They are the protagonists of “Munch’s The Scream – The Great Theft”the first appointment of the week on TV dedicated to beauty, broadcast tonight, Monday February 2 at 9:15 pm on Sky Arte. It all happens in 1994, during the Winter Olympics in Norway, when a theatrical heist turns a simple crime into a thieves’ hunt worthy of a thriller, involving the Norwegian authorities, the international press and even Scotland Yard’s special art crew.
We stay on Sky where, to follow, “The Lost Caravaggio” tells the story ofSee a mana painting lost in a house in Madrid and valued at a negligible price, sparking worldwide interest in its possibility of being a Caravaggio.
Thursday, in the fifth episode of the series Het Plein: Everything you can artNicolas Ballario meets the current protagonists of contemporary art, alongside the most interesting exhibitions. The documentary at 9.15 pm Marinetti’s planedirected by Eleonora Zamparutti and Piero Muscarà, it accompanies the artistic avant-gardes active in Italy in the first decades of the 20th century and explores the birth of Aeropainting in relation to the evolution of aviation. At the center of the story is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the father of futurism, whose life is reread in the light of his clear desire to ‘fly high’ over society and transform it through poetry, art and action. The documentary tells how this evolution would not have been possible without the simultaneous success of military aviation, favored by Italy’s warlike climate under fascism.
Marinetti’s plane, poster © ARTE.it

The evening ends with the secrets hidden behind Edward Hopper’s most iconic and enigmatic works, central to the documentary “Hopper: an American love story” .
On Friday February 6 we fly to Budapest via an episode of Art crimes. During the Cold War, seven Renaissance masterpieces, including the very famous one Madonna Esterhazy by Raphael, disappear from the Budapest Museum and are found a year later in Greece. The episode tells how they got there, including surprises and twists.
Saturday 7 the documentary “Peggy Guggenheim and Edmondo Bacci: Color and Light” leads us to the 1950s when artist Edmondo Bacci meets Peggy Guggenheim in Venice.

On Sunday the week ends with “Pellizza painter Da Volpedo”an insight into the author of the famous painting “Quarto Stato”, between personal pain and a profound vision of human society.

“The fantastic story of money” on ARTE.tv

In Vietri with Rai Storia
The new episode of Rai Storia, of the series “Italy: journey to beauty”, traces the history of Vietri, from the 1920s a crossroads of artists and designers from all over the world, attracted by the charm of the ceramic tradition and the myth of the Mediterranean. Tonight, Monday February 2, we meet the different personalities who have found in the shapes and colors of ceramics a language that can open new horizons of creativity, in an ongoing dialogue between art, architecture and design.

ARTE.tv traces the history of money
Until July 27 “The fantastic story of money”a new docuseries available on ARTE.tv, addresses money as a narrative device and cultural infrastructure, depicting a story that chronicles 2,700 years of evolution, from the cowries of antiquity, to the birth of banknotes, to the circulation of cryptocurrencies.