ROME - The cultural and literary fair “più libri, più liberi” taking place this month was inaugurated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella Wednesday, with the sentiment that

BAGHDAD - A project revealing one of the first sculptural representations of the human face, the Lady of Warka, was presented at the Iraq Museum Wednesday.

ROME - A visually stunning new book, containing images of Rebibbia penitentiary inmates performing Shakespeare's Othello, was presented at the Foreign Press Association Monday.

ROME - The fourth edition of “Emerging Talents” opens this month at the Factory space of the MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.

ROME - The critically acclaimed major retrospective, The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, comes to the Eternal City some 50 years since the

DUBAI - The Italian government is proposing that Italian cuisine outside of Italy become UNESCO World Heritage.

ROME - Espresso, latte and cappuccino are words that Italians are passionate about when it comes to coffee.

 VENICE -- At a fundraising dinner held last week-end in the Palazzo Ca’ Vendramin Calergi, on the Grand Canal and beautifully de

ALGIERS- Right from the outset Brinda J.

BÉZIERS - A painting deemed “inestimable” in value by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico has been stolen from its home in the Béziers Museum of Fine Art,

Milan – Italian football was left reeling Tuesday as a dismal 0-0 draw against Sweden condemned the Azzurri to miss their first football World Cup in more than half a century.

ROME - The Borghese Gallery, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of its reopening, is staging an exhibition that explores its historic ties with the Baroque sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

PARIS - The Assyrian Nimrud bull, destroyed by Isis in March 2015, has been recreated by the cultural heritage thinktank Incontro di Civiltà under the l

VENICE - Thieves robbed the Venetian Beinnale museum of two small Jeff Koons sculptures Sunday night.

ROME - The Latin phrase “Genius Loci” has come to mean the particular atmosphere of a place or its “spirit.” The innovative art project headed by MiBACT under this name, featuring work by

ROME - While my co-workers slogged away, proofing articles on Italy’s corruption, I slid out of my chair and took sanctuary in the multi-sensory cinema experience of the Time Elevator in

NEW YORK - In just a short walk around Broadway, you will immediately notice a large number of spaces for rent. These are mostly restaurants.

ROME - Newsreels of Hitler’s speeches are frightening, while those of Mussolini, with his jutting jaw and pouting mouth, are

ROME - “To have a penis is to be chained to a madman” wrote Sophocles more than 2500 years ago. He was right then and he is still right today.

FLORENCE- Gucci has taken a bold step forward in renouncing fur for their Spring-Summer 2018 collection. Bizzarri has spoken about fur being “out of fas

ROME - Discovering good narration on ancient women is like finding a female with which Zeus wasn’t enamoured: extremely rare, and when finally sought, perpetually coated in tropes.

ROME - My phone died on the way to 6° Senso, I forgot the name of the road and embarked in an aimless meandering through the streets between the Spanish steps and Piazza del Popolo.

ROME - At university I drank gin and tonic, discerning only the drinkable from the undrinkable.