How not to run an art museum: a few lessons for Rome

This artwork at MACRO last year may be a subtle message from the employees to the patrons... read on Okay, I know I shouldn't whine, and...

"Extra Large": Big, Bold and Fun Exhibition at MACRO Testaccio

Big Bambu' by Mike and Doug Starn  Good views all around. Dianne, but not Bill, got to the top. MACRO Testaccio is currently host to ...

Pompidou Postmodernism--in Rome

Not Columbus, not 1972 Our introduction to postmodernism came, in of all places, Columbus Ohio--not, or not then, a pacesetter in architectu...

Plastic bags in Rome - one woman's story

This is a remembrance of and for my Dad, who died about a year ago, just 10 days short of his 93rd birthday.  He was a loyal follower of the...

The Building Wars: MAXXI vs MACRO - Rome's Contemporary Art Blockbusters

MAXXI looking good - summer night art work lights up the courtyard,  and the jutting out window is always captivating Is Rome's MAXXI – ...

MACRO: the Toilets

We were having a rather ordinary glass of white wine in the new and extra-ordinary bar in the striking new addition to MACRO, Rome's mun...

Golf Bags and Blood Vats - Rome's Art Scene

Italy’s ability to put in contradistinction almost anything – art and labor, history and design, the repellant and the beautiful – never cea...

RST Top 40. #8: Monte Testaccio and l'ex Mattatoio - play among Roman ruins

 Looking down into Testaccio from the Monte  We’ve always been intrigued by Monte Testaccio – the “mountain” made of ancient Roman castoff...