Another Triumph for Romanian Academy - new artists, new works, new approaches

[Note:  update on more "promenades" at end of this post.] Get thee to the Romanian Academy ( Accademia di Romania in Roma ), by Fr...

Vernissage-hopping: An Evening in Rome

Guerrieri at far right in khaki jacket One of our (i.e. Rome the Second Time’s) favorite evenings is to do some serial vernissage hopping.  ...

Yoko Ono Comes to Rome and Sees the Future

As loyal readers know, we love vernissages , where the Romans turn out at art galleries for a bit of wine, snacks, and people-watching in ad...

Let's "chattare": Is the Italian language losing it?

It's a bit scary for me to take on the Italians' adoption of other languages into their own. All languages do this (witness "di...