teatro Pompeo area

estaurant near campo dei fiori
hostaris costanza
piazza paradiso, 63/64
tel 06 6861717
nei resti del teatro Pompeo.......meat, fish, mushrooms, truffles

another restaurant in the area
Grotte del teatro Pompeo

I resti del teatro di Pompeo

Hotel Teatro Di Pompeo ***
Largo del Pallaro, 8, Rome

Scala Reale September Photos/Teatro di Pompeo.jpg

The semicircular street Via di Grottapinta corresponds the to the auditorium of the first and the greatest stone theatre in ancient Rome, Teatro di Pompeo or Theatre of Pompey, built in 61 and 55 b.C..

Theatrum Pompei

The Theatre of Pompey
Entertainment edifices : the Theatre of Pompey
The Pompey Project

Hotel Smeraldo
2 star hotel near Campo dei Fiori
[ Vicolo dei Chiodaroli, 9 - 00186 Roma Tel. 06 / 6875929 - 6892121 Fax 06 / 68805495 ]
albergosmeraldoroma@tin.it

Anglo-American Book Store
via della vite 27, roma
tel. 06 679 5222

PORTA PORTESE

pORTA pORTESE

The most well-know flea market in Rome is that of Porta Portese held every Sunday morning.

The Porta
Portese Flea Market Each Sunday morning, from six-thirty, there is a famous flea market in the Trastevere area. Arriving there early
is essential for estimators because the best things go in the first hour. Federico Zeri, the major expert on Italian art, is said to have
found some drawings by Raffaello, wrapped up in old canvas, on one of the Porta Portese stalls.

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one person's junk is someone
else's treasure: treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash--treasure or trash

THE PANTHEON
This famous building stands in the business district of Rome--much as it was built some 18 centuries ago. Amazingly, it has withstood the ravages of both the elements and war permitting a firsthand view of a unique product constructed by Roman hands. Now, it is exposed to acid rain and fumes from passing automobiles and overshadowed by buildings of inferior taste; but, with trust in the future, the Pantheon will survive.
The Roman Pantheon: The Triumph of Concrete
via plep

Art Keith Haring
The slopes of the Janiculum hill offer one of the best vistas of the Eternal City and for the next six months there is the added attraction of spotting some of Keith Haring's largest works. Hosted by the American Academy of Rome, these four, brightly coloured metal sculptures certainly brighten up the grounds of the institute. The works - 'Self Portrait', 'Julia' and two untitled pieces - date from the late '80s and bear all the hallmarks of Haring's highly influential graffiti style.

Until 20 June, 11am-1pm, 2-7pm Tue-Fri, 11am-6pm Sat, Sun, Accademia Americana, Via Angelo Masina 5 (39 06 58461). Bus to Piazzale Aurelio.

Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World

Gambero Rosso has opened a Food City, La Citta' del Gusto, here in Rome.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME via Genug.

ROME STORIES via plep.

here today

New Drug: The Anglo-American bookstore in the center of Rome (near Piazza di Spagna) that can order books from just about anywhere.

Rai TV controversy regarding Pope Pius XII has animated alot of souls.
"What would Jesus have done?" asks Daniel Goldhagen at one point in this sustained diatribe against Catholic complicity in the genocide of the Jews. His own answer is clear: Jesus preached a faith of goodness and tolerance, and would have openly condemned the persecution of the Jews. The whole thrust of the argument of this book is to expose Christianity as a humbug. On the one hand a religion of love and brotherhood, on the other a political institution willing to turn a blind eye to mass murder when it suited it.

Harris is known for ground-breaking books on Roman imperialism and on literacy in the ancient world. His new book, a vastly ambitious attempt to cover nearly every aspect of anger in antiquity from Homer to early Christianity, breaks fresh ground again. Despite a somewhat rambling organisation and quirky remarks like the one just quoted (what's the evidence for neolithic views on revenge?), it is full of interest. Harris's only serious omission is anger in the context of war. The ancients had much to say about anger both as a major cause of war, including civil war, and as a potent factor in the fighting. Harris's neglect of the military aspects of his subject (just two brief entries in the index under 'war, warfare') is a surprising lapse.



Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) ....This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism

FASCISTS VISIONS
The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics

ASPECTS OF THE AESTHETICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Technoscience and the Avant-Garde

propaganda posters

(Art as Idea as Idea)
Near the Tiber River

Yesterday I bought a coffetable book: LIVING IN ROME. From the book I see that Joseph Kosuth's house is near mine-- at Palazzo Santacroce near Campo dei Fiore. His studio (no paint just computer and books, you know, conceptual) is across the way near the Latin-American Institute with it's kinky grotto-like rocaille fountain.

Art "lives" through influencing other art, not by existing as the physical residue of an artist's ideas. The reason that different artists from the past are "brought alive" again is because some aspect of their work becomes "usable" by living artists. 'Joseph Kosuth'

During the time I was still teaching anatomia artistica at the Academy of Fine Arts here in Rome, I heard Kosuth speak at the Liceo Artistico. One of my students got his phone number and I called trying to get him involved in a project relating to anatomy. He was very pleasant but very managerial suggesting that, in participating, I would be able to take advantage of the fame he had but that I didn't.
Another artist that has a house near Campo dei Fiore and who is also very managerial is Mark Kostabi. I met Kostabi years ago when I was represented by Santo Ficaro in Florence. Santo was organizing an exhibiton for Kostabi. Santo didn't speak English and asked if I'd go to Florence to help translate. Kostabi and I posed together for alot of photos by Carlo Fei. I'm very embarassed posing but Kostabi was great. He went through a sequence of stock poses. A good idea to have if you're often photographed. The next day Kostabi invited me to lunch. He was very nice. Said that he'd just gotten out of a relationship which was wreaking him up because, he said, Without love I crumble. About 3 years ago I saw him at an exhibition at The American Academy in Rome. He didn't remember me. So I tried refereshing his memory by asking him to collaborate on another project I was working on at the time (wow, I use to have so many projects involving others...not anymore). But he said he was too busy composing music. Every so often I see him walking around Campo dei Fiore. He always has his hands full of shopping bags.
Kostabi works with Pio Monti, an art dealer I, too, have worked with. Only Pio buys Kostabi's paintings. Mine, instead, he's takes without paying. But Pio is very entertaining so if you're ever in town, visit the gallery: GALLERIA PIO MONTI, Via Pietro della Valle 2 (Prati), Roma.

Alain Fleischer took the photos for the book I mentioned above. I met Fleischer years ago at a dinner. He had done an installation for a show organized by Franco Posa of Arte in Comune, Gli Angeli sopra Roma. Using a video installation, Fleischer made the angels of Ponte Sant’Angelo talk. I liked the work alot because it was, you know, fun. I invited Fleischer to the Academy to speak to my students. He did. The women went wild because the guy is really sexy. Aesthetics is also attitude.



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