The contemporary art gallery at the British School at Rome will re-open after three years' restructuring work on 3 Feb. The new, 180-sqm exhibition space was designed by Rome-based architects Francesco Garofalo and Sharo...
10-29 Feb 2004. A number of British artists are taking part in the eighth Festival Costante Cambiamento in Florence, which this year focuses on a comparison of India and Europe through urban dance. On 10 Feb Mavin Khoo w...
12 Feb-19 March 2004. Danish artist Per Kirkeby is the subject of a retrospective at the German Academy at Villa Massimo. A trained geologist, Kirkeby is best known for the intensive observation of nature in his expressi...
4 Feb-10 March 2004. An exhibition devoted to British video artists Nick Relph and Oliver Payne, who took the Golden Lion award for best artists under 35 at last year's Venice Biennale. The show will feature the video "H...
Advertising in Italian films is now legal as the result of a new measure approved by the government to reform the public funding of Italian cinema. Product placement in films has been banned until now in Italy although i...
27 Jan 2004. The Austrian Cultural Forum celebrates the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a concert by pianist Paul Gulda, son of Austrian composer and pianist Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000), who was renowned as one...
2 Feb-14 March 2004. A new Trend theatre season dedicated to plays by British writers performed by Italian companies. This years productions include Duck by Irish author Stella Feehily (2-15 Feb), the story of two sassy...
31 Jan-25 April 2004. Richard Wilson has installed a film projection entitled "Bank Job" in the vault of the Palazzo delle Papesse, which is blacked out and illuminated only by the film itself. This shows a fuse burning...
25-28 Feb 2004. In Swan Lake, choreography by Galina Samsova from Petipa. The star of the Kiev Ballet, the "divine" Svetlana Zacharova is in Rome for this Swan Lake, sharing the role of Odette/Odile with Anjella Koustnet...
10-15 Feb 2004. Conducted by Antonio Florio, directed by Paul Curran, with Roberta Invernizzi, Dionisia Di Vico, Giuseppe De Vittorio and the baroque orchestra Cappella della Piet de Turchini. Francesco Cavallis La Stati...
Chamber music concert by the Ensemble A. De Chirico with Cipriana Smarandescu harpsichord, Philip Sutton violin, Paolo Bonvino flute and Pasquale Sabatelli bassoon. Music by Vivaldi, Corrette, Handel, Bach (20.45).