Culture

 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

ROME-- The city's Film Festival has announced an 11 million euro budget and dates of Nov. 9-17, several weeks later than the traditional October launch.

ROME-- Bernini,a precocious genius, produced sculptures for over 70 years.

ROME -- Meredith Kercher’s father, John, has published a book about his daughter and his family’s gruelling experience during the investigation into her murder.

ROME -- Until Aug. 27, the Leopold Museum in Vienna hosts the exhibition 'Klimt persönlich', dedicated to the great master Gustav Klimt, one of the finest contributors to Art Nouveau.

ROME -- A cat loving charity is organising a 12 day tour of Italy’s cultural and catty hotspots.

ROME -- From May 3 to May 6, the capital hosts the first edition of the Nordic Film Fest, created by the embassies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to promote Nordic film and culture.