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In its freshly and painstakingly restored Victorian exhibition palace Rome has done herself proud with the sumptuous and deeply explorative retrospective of one of the most respected masters of our era.
The American pai...
At the artificial lake in EUR, people are cutting through the water in unusual-looking canoes. As you get closer, you can hear them shouting
The British School at Rome continues its autumn series of exhibitions and lectures this month with an emphasis on art, architecture and archaeology.
A lecture entitled
So did the Beatles make four movies or five? And what song gave German singer Nena her biggest hit? The disputed answers to these questions and countless others continue to fuel debate among ex-pats battling for supremac...
From 10-14 October, over 7,200 publishing companies from around 110 countries gathered in Germany for what is universally considered the most important date in the international publishing calendar: the Frankfurter Buchm...
In September Valentino Garavani (worldwide known simply as Valentino) announced his retirement as head of the fashion empire to which he gave his name. The announcement came just two months after the 73-year-old had cele...
Lugging home a sack load of usually rationed sweets after trick or treating may be what your children love about Halloween on 31 Oct, but for the grown-ups it
Last summer, Biblioteche di Roma launched a campaign luring people into Rome
All over Italy, the wine harvest is well under way or already completed. Traditionally most white grapes are picked in September with reds in October, to be followed by the various harvest festivals throughout the countr...
The Japanese Cultural Institute holds another diverse set of events this month drawing on theatre, jazz and film.
Renowned Japanese stage designer Setsu Asakura lectures on her greatest theatre sets on 12 Oct at 18.30....
Dustin Wills is a man in a hurry. In 20 minutes he will jump into a taxi for Fiumicino airport and head home to the United States. The timing is unfortunate
The water clock in the gardens of the Passeggiata del Pincio in Villa Borghese has been restored to full working order after decades of inactivity and was inaugurated by Rome mayor Walter Veltroni on 29 June.
The timepi...
The Greeks did not give a fig whether it was white or not; to them marble was just another handy sculpture material which they painted liberally in bright, almost garish colours after it was hewn to shape. But the origin...
If you have ever tried to wash a car windscreen yourself you will have discovered that it
Why do ex-pats, especially those from the Anglo-Saxon world, tend to be such moaners about their host country, whichever country it happens to be? The usual criticisms they make about Italy could apply, with subtle varia...
In his 47 years, the best-selling author Matthew Kneale has visited 85 countries and has had a go at mastering numerous languages including
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