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Jean-Michel Basquiat: To Repel Ghosts : Fondazione Memmo 02/10/2008 - 01/02/2009
Palazzo Ruspoli

The Memmo Foundation and the Fundación Marcelino Botín of Santander are organizing an exhibition on Jean Michel Basquiat, the artist who, with works verging on graffiti, was so successful twenty-odd years ago in New York alongside Andy Warhol. The exhibition entitled Jean-Michel Basquiat: To Repel Ghosts that will open in the rooms of the Memmo Foundation in Palazzo Ruspoli on 2 October 2008, after a summer phase in Santander, will present to the public more than 40 works coming from Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and the USA, including some created in collaboration with Warhol and Francesco Clemente, more than ten works being exhibited to the public for the first time and 5 previously unpublished photographs by Michael Halsband.

Ruins and rebirths of art in Italy 03/10/2008 - 15/02/2009
Colosseo

In conjunction with the one-hundredth anniversary of the first measures enacted by Italian Legislation concerning the safeguarding of cultural properties, the Special Superintendence for the archaeological properties of Rome has produced a new exhibition, in collaboration with the National Committee for the centennial celebrations of the first protection regulations. The exhibition is divided into six sections, offering a thorough picture of the protection principles exercised by the State and their evolution in time, up to today’s important results obtained through diplomacy. Among the works on show, we cite the extraordinary Arringatore from the Archaeological Museum of Florence, and underline the unique opportunity to see the splendid Niobe from the Villa dei Quintili recomposed (the head is indeed conserved in Poland), and the relief with the myth of Hephaestus, it too, usually divided between the Museo di Ostia Antica and the Staatliche Museen of Berlin.

From Rembrandt to Vermeer: Civil Values in 17th century Flemish and Dutch Painting 11/11/2008 - 15/02/2009 Museo del Corso

The Fondazione Roma brings the artists of the Netherlands’ Golden Century to Rome in an exhibition at the Museo del Corso. From November 11, 2008 to February 15, 2009, the Fondazione Roma, headed by Prof. Emmanuele Francesco Maria Emanuele, will present the exhibition From Rembrandt to Vermeer. Civil Values in 17th‐century Flemish and Dutch Painting at its Museo del Corso. Representing the “Golden Century” of Flemish and Dutch art, the exhibition focuses on the development of the genre of the domestic interior, which was dedicated to family life and reflected the innovative social context and civil values of Holland in the 17th century. For the first time in Italy, it will finally be possible to admire a large selection of works belonging the world’s most important collection of 17th‐century Dutch and Flemish paintings: that of Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which includes masterpieces such as Rembrandt’s The Money Changer and Vermeer’s Woman with a Pearl Necklace.

JULIUS CAESAR 24/10/2008 - 05/04/2009 Chiostro del Bramante

Futurismo 20/02/2009 - 24/05/2009 Scuderie del Quirinale

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto - published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris daily Le Figaro on 20 February 1909 - the Scuderie del Quirinale, in conjunction with the Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and with the Tate Modern in London, is planning to devote a major exhibition to Futurism to celebrate the movement's historical and international role.
The exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale will be bringing together a remarkable number of works from the early Futurist period, weaving a path around a central core consisting of a careful and accurate reconstruction of the famous Futurist exhibition held at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in Paris in February 1912. That spectacular exhibition caused quite a stir in its day, particularly on account of the striking contrast between the works on display there and everything else going on in the art world at the time. Indeed, it was only a matter of time before the notions of ‘speed' and ‘dynamism' spread to other countries and other continents, helping to reformulate the vocabulary of art and pegging it to a resolutely modern vision.