…whose ceiling is laden with the most sumptuous depictions of all variety of fruit and vegetable was painted by Raphael at Villa Farnesina (1510), and was the highlight of a day that began with the third in a series of talks by Leonard Barkan at the American Academy in Rome on “Food Culture and High ..
…Fountain is what we attempted to see pre-tourist-mob this morning (first stop on today’s familial Roman highlights tour), at an early enough hour that we might have it to ourselves, which was almost the case by the time we finally made it there – and having just finished reading Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella ..
…whose distant dome I have become used to seeing from my desk, was a first stop with family in town touring Rome’s greatest hits, what mo..
…with birds over the volcanic Colli Albani from the terrace windows ..
…(fireworks) light up Rome over Piazza del Popolo viewed from my window tonight, closing Carnevale. A chiusura dell’edizione 2011 del Carnevale Romano, dalla terrazza del Pincio, un grande spettacolo di fuochi d’artificio a cura del Gruppo IX Invicta, ispirato alle sorprendenti scenografie pirotecniche dell’architetto Giovanni Pao..
…(the vast circuit of Roman city walls hastily built from 271-275 AD) is bursting with all variety of weedy green plant life after months of cool rainy weather, and they are looking very perky basking in today’s bright..
…in shades from white to pink are popping and promising spring in the ba..
…(from the Italian ‘balcone‘) is the private domestic outdoor space available to most Romans, which they try to make the most of – usually full of plants and laundry (which I am also starting to consider for my Roman rooftop homestead as we head into Spring with more sun an..
…just down the hill from me, which I pass everyday on my way through Trastevere, is cool, as is any underground activity, space, home, institution or business – literally or figuratively – and I have been fascinated by underground construction since I was little – writing my 6th grade term paper on underground and earth-sheltered ..
…is something I started messing around with a few months ago (featuring a miniature landscape of tufa rocks and scavenged blocks covered with pieces of moss varieties gathered on daily walks) on the part of the roof where water stands after rains or plant-watering and in today’s morning light it is looking picturesque out my studio ..
…are what surround me now and, graphically speaking, are what give me the most visual and conceptual pleasure these days (maybe because I am a hyper-organized planning-freak who enjoys nothing more than the feeling that I am figuring out my life by figuring out my calendar and plotting my moves on a map), with one ..
…is the 95 year old newcomer/up-and-coming actress who plays Gianni Di Gregorio’s mother in his new film ‘Gianni e Le Donne‘ (a follow up to his 2008 low budget hit ‘My Mid-August Lunch‘, or ‘Pranzo di Ferroagosto‘ in which she also plays his mother) which we just saw this weekend at the cute Testaccio theater ..
…the series of public Roman street posters by Academy fellow Jeremy Mende (depicted in one of Marco Raparelli’s portraits) are now showing up around town!..
…the center for activities promoting another economy (organic farming, fair trade, renewable energy, reuse and recycling, responsible tourism, ethical finance, open communication plus a ‘bio’ caffe’ and store) housed in Testaccio‘s ex-mattatoio (old slaughterhouse) is the place in Rome where I feel most at home these days and the Sunday market has become a highlight ..
…this afternoon with a young local resident living in cozy top floor quarters of a 1930’s fascist apartment block (previously cheap working class housing, now expensive sought after real estate my Italian friends envy) which he once shared with his grandmother – is the first in a series of 35 profiles we are doing with ..
…tonight’s live, recorded, and simultaneously projected three hour performance in Vatican City by Christian Jankowski at Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Saxia (the city’s oldest hospital, dating back to 727 and first reconstructed in 1204) had a Catholic American Idol Broadway Chorus Line Biblical soap opera vibe – with a series of svelt swarthy actors ..
…the 1996 book by Joan Retallack (subtitled ‘Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music‘) features fantastic reflections on, interviews with, and poetry by this humane, earthy, soulful, rigorous, funny, free-spirited, creative colossus of the 20th century who has always seemed like one of the critical figures for me to get my head around, but ..
…took place this morning in grand style with freshly cut dusty green leaved olive branches covering much of the ground after the garden crew had come through to trim each tree back into a classic hollow bowl-shape which allows more light into the center of the tree. (more on pruning and more on ..
…the latest freely distributed print project by The Llano Del Rio (masterminded by Robby Herbst) describes, charts and maps (see the print side here) a certain special Los Angeles flavor of recently initiated radical cultural activity on the streets of the city (which makes me miss the place so much this year) and I think ..
…from the Roman Rooftop Homestead is very good indeed, with the happy plants beginning to climb up the pea-stake branches that were just installed for them, and today I notice the first peapods hiding in the bright green foliage, and then, as often happens when first discovering something, you begin to realize it is e..
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