COMING SOON - STREET ART

Any form of visual art created in public locations is usually defined as street art and street artists choose the street as their gallery as to communicate directly and without boundaries with their public.

The exhibition, hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art, will bring the experience of 12 of these artists indoor while comparing their different use of street art language.
"Urban Legends" will open on June, 7 at La Pelanda, Macro Museum. Entrance will be free of charge.

For more info about the museum click here: Macro Museum

Humdrum VS Changes?

Most times we define our life as humdrum. 
In this context, seven months may seem an instant when compared to a lifetime spent repeating everyday the same actions, that more or less can be summarised in sleeping, working, eating, exercising and spending some time with family and friends. 

But if we live intensely each part of this apparently boring résumé of what our life is all about, that iota of days might suddenly be not easily classifiable under the label "humdrum".
It's only when you rewind the tape of the last months that you realise how many things have changed meanwhile, or are in the process to, and how many instead still occupy their old place.

Things you did as a habit might have changed without even be noticed

Morning wake-up calls might not have been delayed but your office might now be closer than "next door".

Sebastião Salgado at the Ara Pacis Museum

© Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images 

The exhibition, hosted at the Ara Pacis, in the heart of ancient Rome, clearly testimonies Salgado's deep involvement in the environmental protection of our planet. 
With hundreds of fascinating black and white images, "Genesis" portrays the magnificent beauty of regions that are still in a pristine condition despite the manifold destruction caused by irresponsible human activity. 






In an era, in which technology and progress seem to be essential targets for the 

© Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images

preservation of human beings, there still are communities that live happily, according to their ancient culture and traditions.
Salgado's message is poignant. It makes us feel that it's not too late to undertake strong actions to save and protect our marvellous planet, that we're still in time to preserve its beauty and our lives, and that instead of rushing to move continuously forward, we should slow down and wonder whether the progress at which we aim is worth such a high price.

© Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images

That's what I've been doing...

There's a reason for my absence from this blog. A highly important one.
I have been trying to be ready, but I know I'm not, and I never will. And though this moment seemed so far away, now the countdown has started...
To all of you, who will read this article, and have children, I say that it doesn't matter where we come from, we are all in the same boat.

To my one and only.

Michael Gerson

Opinion Writer

Saying goodbye to my child, the youngster

By Michael Gerson, Published: August 20 E-mail the writer

Eventually, the cosmologists assure us, our sun and all suns will consume their fuel, violently explode and then become cold and dark. Matter itself will evaporate into the void and the universe will become desolate for the rest of time.

This was the general drift of my thoughts as my wife and I dropped off my eldest son as a freshman at college. I put on my best face. But it is the worst thing that time has done to me so far. That moment at the dorm is implied at the kindergarten door, at the gates of summer camp, at every ritual of parting and independence. But it comes as surprising as a thief, taking what you value most.

A memorable lunch at La Terrazza dell'Eden

There are different ways to celebrate a special event. Particularly if you live in Rome and if the weather forecast announces pouring rain despite the approach of summer.
The graduation ceremony is an emotional stress both for grads and their parents. The first ones are partially sad because a long period of their lives comes to an end, but they're incredibly excited since a new one is going to start pretty soon. The second ones are very proud of their children's achievements but terribly sad about having soon to wave them goodbye, since in most cases their university is located thousands of miles away from home.
It's a matter of age, I guess, that draws a clear line in the feelings of those, who still have an amount of choices ahead, and those, who have already made them and to whom little is spared.
La Terrazza of the Eden Hotel in Rome has been the perfect spot to seal the end of an era and the beginning of a new, still unknown, one.
Its atmosphere is cosy like the one at home, the service accurate like the care a parent has for his child, and the view stunning and breathtaking just like the one that both of them -children and parents-have when they look at the future to come.
Yes, we did have a MEMORABLE time at La Terrazza. And as I said, much more than that...

For culinary curious, I had a delicate amuse-gueule

Free entrance ticket!

This coming Saturday, May 18, is "La Notte dei Musei".

From 8 p.m. until 2 a.m., the entrance to 30 different exhibitions hold in the major museums of the capital -including Macro and Musei Capitolini- will be free of charge!  

For more info, check the site: http://en.museiincomuneroma.it/

COMING SOON - World Press Photo 2013

This year, the international jury of the 56th annual World Press Photo contest has awarded 54 photographers coming from 32 different countries.  The hard work of these professionals in visual journalism has been divided into nine categories: Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, General News, Nature, Observed Portraits, Sports Action, Sports Feature, Spot news, Staged Portraits.

Photo of the Year 2012 is a picture taken in Gaza City on November, 20th by Paul Hansen of the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.

The Museo di Roma in Trastevere, will feature the awarded photographs from May, 4th until May, 26th.

Opening time: from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Tuesday to Sunday. The museum is closed on Mondays and entrance is allowed until one hour before closing time.

You might also be interested in: http://roaming-in-rome.blogspot.it/2012/03/museum-of-rome-in-trastevere-on-sunday.html

Tiziano. A must see in Rome.

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

When we come to speak about art, nothing is more true than this quote.
Lately I have been visiting "Tiziano", a fabulous exhibition hosted at "Le Scuderie del Quirinale".
Forty paintings testimony the incredible rise and success of this amazingly gifted venetian renaissance artist and unparalleled promoter of the renewal of culture in Italy and Europe during the sixteenth century. His artworks, loaned from many leading museums, both in Europe and overseas, allow the visitor to grasp the exceptional nature of this talented artist. 
My favourite painting? All of them! But especially the portraits, such as the one of Pope Paul III

It happened today

23 April 2005
On the 15th of February 2005 Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim - three former PayPal employees - bought the domain www.youtube.com. 
On April, 23rd of that year it recorded the first account and uploaded the first video. It was at 8:27 p.m. and the video was called Me at the Zoo by Jawed Karim. It was just 19 seconds of recording time in front of the elephant cage at the zoo in San Diego.
By June 2006 YouTube had already collected 100 million videos, and in the month of October of that same year, it was bought by Google for $ 1.65 billion.


Chapeau...to an amazing success!!!

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Although these eight storms should have turned me into a great dancer, once in a while I still slip on the wet floor of life.

What matters is to get up again and go back dancing!
xoxo :)