February in Rome

For three months, Rome will be inundated with exhibitions and art installations dedicated to Futurism, the artistic movement spear-headed by poet and writer, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in collaboration with artists such as
Giocomo Balla, Umberto Bocccioni, Carlo Carra, Russolo, Gino Severini and Despero.

Futurismo - Avanguardia-Avanguardie
A retrospective on Futurism, the towering and innovative movement that took place at the onset of the 20th century. Futurist art formed an aesthetic language derived from the idea of velocity, and dynamism brought on by modernism, and the era of industrialization. The show celebrates the 100th year since the publication in Le Figaro, February, 1909 of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's "Il Manifesto", the driving force behind the movement. A collaboration with the Georges Pompidou Paris and the Tate Modern London..
Le Scuderie del Quirinale, Piazza Via XXIV Maggio 16
Sunday-Thursday, 10 am-8 pm; Friday-Saturday, 10 am-10:30 pm;
February 20 through May 24
Brian Eno - Presentism
Site-Specific installation in which Eno responds to the future of Futurism with a musical event which demonstrates the relativity of space and time in the universe of sound.
Fondazione Memmo - Palazzo Ruspoli, Via Del Corso 418
Opens February 20 06 687 4704
L'arte della pubblicità. Il manifesto e le avanguardie 1920-1940
A survey of 100 works dedicated to early experiments in graphic design used as advertising-publicity material. The exhibition highlights works from a cadre of internationally known Italian artists linked to diverse movements from 1920 through 1940 - Adolfo Wild to Duilio Cambellotti - and Futuristic artists Despero and Giocomo Balla, Prampolini; Mario Sironi, Anna Villari, Lucio Fontana and others..
Casino Dei Principi - Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana 70
Tuesday - Sunday 9 am-7:30 pm; February 24 through May 24
Gregorio Guglielmi - Pittore romano
The first showing of works by 18th century artist Gregorio Guglielmi. Born in Rome ( 1714-1773), Guglielmi executed important works for various churches (Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome, San Michele Arcangelo in Caprarola) and for the private residences of the aristocratic Corsini familiy (the Palazzo Corsini in Lungara).
Ex Convento di Sant'Agostino - Biblioteca Avvocatura, Generale Dello Stato,
Via Dei Portoghesi 12 (near Piazza Navona)
Monday-Sunday, 10 am -7 pm; February 5 through March 15
Theo by Richard Avedon
In conjunction with Rome's Fashion Week, simultaneous exhibitions at the Musei Capitolini and Villa Medici feature the first public showing of recently-discovered portraits of Avedon's first muse, American model, Ann Theophane Graham. The exhibition includes correspondence between Avedon and Theo and photographic layouts of fashions by Dior, Jacques Fath, Pierre Balmain and Cristòbal Balenciaga, shot in post WWII Paris. Avedon's photographs of Theo appeared in Harper's Bazaar magazine..
Musei dei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio 1
Tuesday - Sunday 10 am-6 pm; through March 8 tel 06 399 67800 and at
Villa Medici Trinità del Monte 1, Atelier del Bosco; Tuesday-Sunday 11 am-7 pm;
through March 8 tel 06 67611
Bertrand Lavier
This retrospective exhibition, comprised of 40 works in various dimensions, documents French installation artist Lavier's creative activity from 1978 to the present. Lavier is known for the transformation of everyday objects into works of art.
Villa Medici, Viale dei Trinità dei Monti 1, (top of the Spanish Steps)
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am-7 pm; through March 8 tel 06 67611
Madre Terra
National Geographic Italia presents the 2nd edition of Madre Terra", an exhibition of 101 photographic works by a cadre of National Geographic photo-journalists dedicated to the organization's mission and commitment to protect the planet by bringing to public awareness of the consequences of climate change.
Palazzo Delle Esposizioni Via Nazionale 194 (Esquilino)
February 7 through March 29
Giorgio De Chirico - La magia della linea
De Chirico considered drawing to be 'the imprint of thought, a genre with dignity equal if not superior to painting'. A selection of 100 of his drawings, on loan from the private collection of Isa De Chirico joins other citywide exhibitions being launched over the next two years in honor of the 120th anniversary of his birth.
Museo Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese,
Viale Fiorello La Guardia 4 (Borghese gardens)
Tuesday-Sunday, 9 am-7 pm; through April 19
Casa Di Goethe
Seventy-two engravings executed between 1792 and 1798 by German artists, Johann Christian Reinhart, Jacob Wilhelm Mechau and Christoph Albert Dies, depict landscapes and urban vistas.
Via Del Corso 18 (near Piazza del Popolo)
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-6 pm; February 3 through March 12
Foibe: dalla Tragedia all'Esodo
An exhibition of more than 100 photographs remembering the tragic events that forced hundreds of thousands of Italians into exile during WWII.
Complesso Del Vittoriano, Via di San Pietro In Carcere,
Tuesday-Sunday 9:30 am-3:00 pm; Through February 22
Forma del Rinascimento. Donatello, Andrea Bregna, Michelangelo e la scultura a Roma nel Quattrocento
Sculpture by Donatello, Andrea Bregna and Michelangelo. The exhibition offers a window into an extraordinary fertile period, examining the cultural, geographical and artistic influences these works brought to Renaissance art in Rome under new papacies from Pio II to Julius II. The installation also feature works by other Renaissance masters: Bramante, Leonardo de Vinci, Sangallo, Pisanello, Raffello, Andrea Sansovino Mantegna, Daniele da Volterra and Fiesole
Palazzo Venezia, Via Del Plebiscito 118 (Piazza Venezia)
through March 1, 2010
Corrado Bonicatti - Dialoghi di luce
Works on canvas by Corrado Bonicatti, considered one of the last masters of the 20th century.
Palazzo Venezia - Sala del Reflettorio, Via Del Plebiscito 118 (Piazza Venezia)
Tuesday - Saturday 9 am-7 pm; February 19 through March 22 tel 06 699 94319
Luciano Pasquini - Itinerari (anche) sentimental
Last wek to view works by Tuscan painter Luciano Pasquini - an exhibition of 40 works completed during 2007-2008.
Palazzo Venezia, Via Del Plebiscito 118, (Piazza Venezia)
Tuesday - Sunday, 9 am -7 pm; through February 8   tel 06 699 94 319
Riccardo Licata e le stagioni dello spazialismo
A retrospective exhibition of 90 works by Venetian artist Riccardo Licata. This body of work highlights Licata's artistic achievements from 1950 through 1960, the period in which he contributed to the Spazialismo Movement in Italy.
Palazzo Venezia, Via del Plesbicito 118 (Piazza Venezia)
Wednesday - Sunday 11 am -7 pm; through March 15 tel 06 699 99413
From Rembrandt to Vermeer - Civil values in Flemish and Dutch Painting
An exhibition is dedicated to the Golden Age of Flemish and Dutch painting examines the development of domestic interiors in genre painting, depicting familiar scenes of domestic intimacy while giving testimony to a renewed social content and civil value of Holland during 1600's. A selection of 55 paintings include masterful works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ruebens, Franz Hals, Gerard ter Borch, Pieter de Hooch, Jacobsz van Ruisdale, Anton van Dyck and others.
Museo Del Corso, via del Corso 320
Sunday - Saturday 10am - 8pm; through February 15
Bruno Munari
Artist, graphic and industrial designer, Munari was one of the great innovators of the 20th century. The exhibition is comprised of 150 objects in various media.
Museo dell'Ara Pacis,   Lungotevere in Augusta (near Piazza del Popolo)
Tuesday - Sunday 9 am - 7 pm; through February 22
Giulio Cesare
This exhibition chronicles Giulio Cesare's rise to power while examining the social, political and cultural influences that impacted Egypt and Rome during the time of his reign.
Ambiente Dart - Chiostro Del Bramante;   Via Della Pace (near Piazza Navona)
Tuesday - Friday, 10 am - 8 pm; Saturday - Sunday, 10 - 9 pm; through April 5