As it relates to art, forgery has a long and complex history. Not so long ago, a brilliant artist could make a virtually perfect copy of an...
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
An Awkward Moment at an Art Opening
At Luigi Moretti's ex-GIL (where Fascist youth once played their games), Trastevere, last June.
RST Top 40: #14, Villa Medici
From the Villa Medici gardens, St. Peter's dome at right in distance The Villa Medici sits just to the north of the top of the Spani...
Planning Rome's Future: Modern Art? Or Domus Aurea?
Michael Kimmelman’s story, “As Rome Modernizes, Its Past Quietly Crumbles” ( New York Times , July 7, 2010), is smart and full of ideas, fro...
The Germans Occupy Rome--for an Evening
The Germans occupied Rome Thursday night. Yes, we were all, about 2,000 of us, occupied and entertained at Villa Massimo, the German cultur...
More meat!
Somehow paintings of meat figured in our recent gallery hopping around Rome. What is it with the raw meat fascination? Although the paintin...
Fascism: Patron of the Arts
Prompolini, Carpanetti, Terragni, Libera, De Renzi, Maccari, Sironi, De Chirico, Marini, Torres, Casorati, Guttuso. We would be surprised if...
Home is where the art is: "in situ" from Rome to Los Angeles
The wall-to-wall art displays in Renaissance Roman palazzi never cease to amaze us. That there are collections still in place is more amazin...
Art where you find it
Rome, being well, Rome, is home to absolutely stunning locations for art installations. Art in situ is fantastic for, first the places them...
Manhole Covers: Art and Politics
If we didn’t know that Bocca della Verita', now one of Rome’s major tourist attractions, was once a manhole cover, we might have been m...
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