Culture

CARAVAGGIO- Today many assume that the town Caravaggio was named after the great painter. In fact, he was named after the town.  Michelangelo Merisi da (from) Caravaggio was born here in 1571.

ROME- Professor, scholar and former Lemonhead guitarist Corey Brennan gave an animated, extensive farewell lecture at the American University of Rome the other day.

ROME-Until July 15th, at the Museum of Rome Palazzo Braschi by Piazza Navona the large restored masterpiece will be displayed in a special room.

ROME - Two days to celebrate the genius of John Cage (1912-1992) in Rome are scheduled this week. The American composer, music theorist, and artist will be remembered in the garden of the Accademia

Rome- Caravaggio's paintings were revered and imitated in his own time but he was almost unknown until as late as 1951 when art historian Roberto Longhi organized an exhibition of his work in Milan

ROME -The Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MACRO) will host a talk with German conceptualist Olaf Nicolai for the "A History" project on Friday June 22 at 6:30pm.

Rome- The Keats-Shelley house will host a reading by the Scottish author and historian William Dalrymple on June 26 at 4:00pm.

 ROME- The Accademia Tedesca hosted their Festa dell’Estate or summer festival in the enchanting Villa Massimo property last week.

ROME- Sandra Provost’s patience and skill in directing What the Butler Saw, a farce by Joe Orton, is deeply felt after the marathon of emotional hurdles the audience completes.

ROME - Although Michelangelo spent most of his creative life in Rome, few of his works remain here compared to the greater number in his home city of Florence. 

Rome- The American Academy of Art’s gallery will host two paired photography exhibitions featuring four young Italian artists.

ROME-- The Gagosian Gallery has presented an exhibition of sensational large-scale drawings by contemporary German artist Albert Oehlen.

ROME - Alain Economides, the Italian Ambassador in London, has awarded Italian writer Gaia Servadio the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for the honour her career has brought Italy.

ROME-- Not with swords, but slanderous lies four hundred and two years after his death. What would he think about the things that are being said about him?

ROME -- Two Italian artists have sculpted a waxwork of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lying dead in a glass topped coffin.

ROME– Woody Allen’s latest film, To Rome with Love, has been denounced by Italian critics who deplore the portrayal of a tourist’s rich and sunny capital, ignoring the reality of a city in the clut

ROME– Norwegian artist Frederik Værslev’s collection is rather misleadingly named. ‘Sunny Side Up’ is nearly entirely overshadowed by the gallery in which it is presented.

ROME--It is often said Italian cinema is in a crisis as grave and threatening as the economic maelstrom. Directors lack financing but also originality, imagination and insight.

The Experience...Finland_Turin exhibition, curated by Arianna Callocchia, aims to show local and international design community in Turin how contemporary Finnish architecture and design can improve

ROME – The American University of Rome presented an Honorary Doctorate in Classics to singer-songwriter Dr. Francesco Guccini this week.

ROME--“Arturo Ghergo photographed princesses like they were film stars, and film stars like they were princesses.”

ROME -- A Polish priest has published his claim that a powerful "gay mafia" is at work within the Catholic Church.

ROME - Six thousand musicians aged between 12 and 25 will be travelling from 25 European countries to attend one of the most important musical events for young people.

ROME --  The work of Italian brothers Marco and Giorgio Priori, this short but smoothly put-together documentary explores the remarkable rise-and-fall of Dawson City, the focal point of the gold fe