Letter from Rome
 
By Philip Willan
 
ROME — Four young Italian writers have banded together to create an association dedicated to protecting authors from the predatory practices of Italy’s publishing industry. Their initiative has coincided with nationwide protests against planned cuts to the government’s culture budget. In the space of a month, their Writers In Litigation website [...]

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By Josiane El Khoury
 
NAPLES- This summer the Neapolitan temperature soaring above 40 degrees Celsius seems “hotter” than everywhere else on the peninsula. Violent brawls among young people fuelled by alcohol and drugs as well as the torrid weather are taking place frequently in the main piazzas of the city centre, authorities said, and the police [...]

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By Desmond 0′Grady

 
TRIESTE — Palladio had a strong and beneficial influence on architects worldwide but more immediately in his native region, the Veneto.
Some of his country manors, such as for Villa Barbaro at Maser, were decorated by leading contemporary artists, including Veronese. Only a baker’s dozen were competed under Palladio, who pushed his costs too [...]

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By Gianfranco Nitti
 
ROME — On the occasion of AltaRoma 2010, Cristina Bomba has presented at her store My Mother’s Clothes, a new series of colour photographs by well known photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron.
Featuring still life images of her mother’s clothing and personal articles from the late 1950s through the 90s, My Mother’s Clothes reveals an [...]

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Fourteen paintings by Irish artist Michelle Rogers
 
 
 

 held in wake of Fastweb maelstrom
 
Rome — As many as 14 major paintings by Irish artist Michelle Rogers are being held by Italian police. The artist gallerist Massimo Micucci has been in prison since February for his business connections to Fastweb owner Silvio Scaglia and everything in his gallery has [...]

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By Julia-Sandra VIRSTA
 
 
ROME — The fourth edition of the RomaFictionFest 2010 opened in its usual venues of the Auditorium Conciliazione and the Multisala Adriano, while Industry Week will be held at Lumpsa’s Sala Tesi.
The ROMAFICTIONFEST is an event organised by the Roberto Rossellini Foundation for Audiovisuals under the direction of Francesco Gesualdi, and is sponsored [...]

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ROME– The the Gagosian Gallery in Rome will play host to an exhibition of new sculptures by Franz West starting at the end of this summer, the curators said.
 
Belonging to the generation of artists exposed to Actionist and Performance Art of the 1960s, West rejected the passive nature of the relationship between artwork and [...]

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By JULIA-SANDRA VIRSTA
 
 
ROME — If Mohammed doesn’t go to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Mohammad, says the proverb … And this is exactly what happened to us (a few journalists) who had the fortune to experience the delicacies of Chef Jorge Breton from the Michelin-starred Valencian restaurant LA SUCURSAL, in Rome at [...]

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 By MARGARET STENHOUSE
 
ROME — Visitors to the Colosseum will shortly have access to parts of Rome’s most celebrated monument that have always been closed to the public or have been inaccessible for many years. These include the third level, and part of the arena and the underground service zone.
“At the end of August we’ll be [...]

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L’AQUILA — Thanks to Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, the French Ambassador in Italy, the closing concert of the 2010 festival “Suona francese” was being held at L’Aquila on Thursday, June 24, officials said.

The National Orchestra of the Italian Music Academies (Orchestra Nazionale dei Conservatori Italiani) was to perform the work of Hector Berlioz and [...]

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