On December 1st, 2010, PIERO GOLIA AT NOMAS…
…Foundation in conversation with Luca Lo Pinto from the amazing Roman cultural instigators at Nero Magazine and curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni – and the last…
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On November 30th, 2010, AN INTERVIEW IN THE DIRT…
…the American Institute of Landscape Architects (ASLA) website, was posted a couple of months ago – but I finally had a chance to read it, and thought I…
On November 29th, 2010, TEOREMA…
…the 1968 film by the singular Italian genius and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini is what we were up late watching tonight, reminding me of another Italy not too…
On November 28th, 2010, A VISIT TO PARCO DEI MOSTRI WITH DANISH…
…friends who are fellows at the Accademia Danimarca di Roma (housed in Danish design splendor in a 1967 structure designed by Kay Fisker near Villa Borghese) made me…
On November 27th, 2010, JOAN JONAS TALKS AT MAXXI…
…which is the dramatic new Zaha Hadid designed ‘Museum of 21st Century Art’ (surrounded by an unfortunate expanse of endless shadeless tree-free unwelcoming concrete which seems to function…
On November 26th, 2010, DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER VILLA AURELIA…
…(the 17th Century Palazzo owned by the American Academy and now used for special events and accomodating special guests) out my window today has almost become a mundane…
On November 25th, 2010, FEDERICA SCHIAVO GALLERY SHOW BY BHAKTI BAXTER…
…a Miami friend, opened tonight starting with a talk/performance about ‘nothing’ in the apartment above the gallery where Roman flea market vases were casually displayed on the floor…
On November 24th, 2010, SCREENING OF VIDEO BY KAREN YASINSKY…
…a fellow American Academy fellow this year – was a real pleasure, the highlight of the day, a 3.5 minute video she made in 2009 inspired by one…
On November 23rd, 2010, THE VILLA AT DORIA PAMPHILJ…
…set within the biggest landscaped public park in Rome (previously mentioned here) and located just behind the American Academy in Rome on top of the Gianicolo – is…
On November 22nd, 2010, LA BELLISSIMA TELEGIORNALISTA ELENA GUARNIERI…
…di TG5 (the flagship news program of the Mediaset empire owned by the ridiculous Silvio Berlusconi who first ascended to the throne of Italian Prime Minister in March…
On November 21st, 2010, PETER SELLARS, DAWN UPSHAW, GEOFF NUTTALL…
…and the rest of the American family-like team putting on the show ‘Kafka Fragments,’ (originally commissioned for Carnegie Hall in 2005, later performed everywhere from the Barbican in…
On November 20th, 2010, PERSIMMON LEAVES…
…are on fire and providing bolts of brilliant color in the gardens behind the Academy, especially on the ground as the big leaves pile up in a spectrum…
On November 19th, 2010, A RAINBOW OVER THE ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…
…this morning is a welcome punctuation to endless days of November Roman rain.
On November 18th, 2010, WHY BENILDE-ST. MARGARET’S IS STILL A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR GAY TEENS…
…all of these years since I graduated from that Minneapolis Catholic high school – where I tried to disappear as much as possible while enduring four years as…
On November 17th, 2010, BRACKET ISSUE #1 ‘ON FARMING’…
…is the premiere issue of the journal published by the Barcelona based architecture imprint Actar which has its release today at the University of Toronto, where I visited…
On November 16th, 2010, ‘A LANDSCAPE MANIFESTO’ BY DIANA BALMORI…
…is the smart & beautiful new book that I am seeing all over Europe by the innovative and influential New York-based Argentinian – by way of Spain and…
On November 15th, 2010, ROME FROM ABOVE…
…is the view that I am enjoying as we prepare to land at the remote Roman airport of Ciampino this morning, especially a view of the suburb Centocelle…
On November 14th, 2010, THE BERLINER STADTSCHLOSS…
…occupied a central position on Berlin’s museum island, and despite much protesting from the West was eventually demolished by the GDR in 1950 after damage from Allied bombings,…
On November 13th, 2010, THE BERLIN TIERGARTEN MEMORIAL TO HOMOSEXUALS PERSECUTED…
…under Nazism by Berlin based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (whose place I happen to be staying at this week) provides a poetically uncomfortable public moment as…
On November 12th, 2010, GLOOMY BERLIN WEATHER…
…is not preventing me from being excited to be in this town that I have not had occasion to visit in years (I actually happened to be here…