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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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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Tour guides in St Peter

 
By JOSIANE EL KHOURY
ROME - Thousands of foreign visitors to Italy have been exploited by English, American and Australian self-appointed “tour guides” controlling illegally an estimated 50 percent of the lucrative tourist visit business in the Eternal City, the police say.
Italian police say they broke up a major illegal tour [...]

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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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 By Italian Insider reporters

ROME – Hundreds of British citizens attended a dazzling cocktail party at the Villa Wolkonski, the residence of the British Ambassador Monday, to mark the launch of an Association of British Expatriates in Italy.
The idea is to form a non-political group to bring together British citizens resident in Italy who are believed [...]

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By Megan Williams
 
ROME — In an attempt by municipal politicians to rid the city of the scribbles, scrawls and phallic symbols that cover many downtown buildings, Mayor Gianni Alemanno’s office has announced a package of tough new measures. Anyone caught spray-painting city walls or selling paint cans to minors will now be fined up to [...]

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 ROME HAILS ENGLISH THEATRE’S  PRODUCTION OF PULITZER PRIZE WINNING PLAY 
 
 
                                                 BY FARLEY CLINTON
 
    ROME –  I have never seen a more enthusiastic audience at an opening night than the one which greeted the English Theatre of Rome ’s production of David Auburn’s Proof, on Friday, 4 December. 
 
      All the enthusiasm was justified. It is a brilliant little [...]

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Taming the Shrew

 
 
Teatro San Genesio     via Podgora, 1
 
 
 
Reviewed by Farley Clinton
 
 
    I was startled, consulting the program at the end of the evening, to learn that the agreeable leads in the Taming of the Shrew were the very same pair who made a fine success some weeks ago in Blithe Spirit.  They must be good actors.
 
    “Petruchio, [...]

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