Rome's Christmas 2023 Art Exhibitions Guide: From Escher to Helmut Newton
Hotels in Rome anticipate a 30% rise in visitor numbers this year, with a notable 20% increase expected for New Year's Eve (Ebtl). The city is hosting a variety of exhibitions: an Escher retrospective with 300 pieces at Palazzo Bonaparte; 'Emotion' featuring over twenty artists at Chiostro del Bramante; MAXXI's 2024 programming debut focusing on Jannis Kounellis and others; GAM's tribute to Gruppo 70; 'La lunga estate calda' at Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea; the first Italian exhibition on Phidias at Musei Capitolini; a retrospective of Emilio Prini at MACRO; Scuderie del Quirinale's celebration of Italo Calvino; 'Helmut Newton – Legacy' at Museo dell'Ara Pacis; Galleria Borghese's exploration of Rubens; and Palazzo Valentini's enhanced archaeological route.
Key facts
- Rome hotels see 30% increase in arrivals over last year; New Year's Eve +20% (Ebtl data).
- Escher exhibition at Palazzo Bonaparte marks centenary of his 1923 first visit to Rome, with 300 works.
- Emotion at Chiostro del Bramante curated by Danilo Eccher, features over twenty artists.
- MAXXI 2024 programming includes Kounellis, Aalto, Jodice, Dalisi, and first Contemporary Design Collection.
- GAM exhibition marks 60 years since Gruppo 70 founding in 1963.
- First Italian exhibition on Phidias at Musei Capitolini includes original Parthenon frieze fragments from Acropolis Museum.
- MACRO presents largest Emilio Prini retrospective with over 250 works.
- Helmut Newton Legacy at Ara Pacis includes 200 photographs, 80 previously unpublished.
Entities
Artists
- Maurits Cornelis Escher
- Carsten Höller
- Luigi Mainolfi
- Piero Pizzi Cannella
- Masbedo
- Paolo Scirpa
- Adrian Tranquilli
- Eva Jospin
- Luigi Ontani
- Laure Provost
- Jannis Kounellis
- Alvar Aalto
- Mimmo Jodice
- Riccardo Dalisi
- Ketty La Rocca
- Lucia Marcucci
- Eugenio Miccini
- Luciano Ori
- Lamberto Pignotti
- Roberto Malquori
- Michele Perfetti
- Sonia Andresano
- Sandro Bonvissuto
- Carlo Alberto Bucci
- Paolo Canevari
- Cecilia Casorati
- Anna Cestelli Guidi
- Jacopo de Bertoldi
- Iginio De Luca
- Sabino de Nichilo
- Bruna Esposito
- Paola Gandolfi
- Donatela Landi
- Myriam Laplante
- Martux_m
- Monica Micheli
- Fiamma Montezemolo
- Liliana Moro
- Anna Negri
- Elena Nonnis
- Isabella Pers
- Tiziana Pers
- Mario Pieroni
- Gioacchino Pontrelli
- Caterina Silva
- Donatella Spaziani
- Phidias
- Emilio Prini
- Alvin Curran
- Alexander Brodsky
- Italo Calvino
- Helmut Newton
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Carol Rama
- Pietro Canonica
- Elisa Montessori
- Alfredo Pirri
- Rä di Martino
- Renata Boero
- Valerio D'Angelo
- Gianni Dessì
- Sabina Mirri
- Viktor Vicsek
- Tom Dekyvere
- Lien Dekyvere
- Simone Puzzolo
- Paco Lanciani
- Piero Angela
- Emanuele Luzzati
- Giulio Paolini
- Emilio Isgrò
- Yva
- Gianni Versace
- Andy Warhol
- Charlotte Rampling
- Romy Schneider
- Catherine Deneuve
- Mick Jagger
- Nastassja Kinski
- David Bowie
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Arthur Miller
- Alda Fendi
- Raffaele Curi
- Jean Nouvel
- Danilo Eccher
- Claudio Libero Pisano
- Matthias Harder
- Denis Curti
- Mario Barenghi
- Germano Celant
- Martin Ritt
- William Faulkner
- Orson Welles
- Paul Newman
- Joanne Woodward
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Francois Truffaut
- Federico Fellini
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Institutions
- Ente bilaterale del turismo del Lazio (Ebtl)
- Palazzo Bonaparte
- Chiostro del Bramante
- MAXXI
- GAM (Galleria d'Arte Moderna)
- Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
- Musei Capitolini
- Villa Caffarelli
- MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
- Scuderie del Quirinale
- Museo dell'Ara Pacis
- Helmut Newton Foundation
- Galleria Borghese
- Fondazione Palazzo Te
- Palazzo Ducale di Mantova
- Palazzo Rinhoceros
- Museo Pietro Canonica
- Villa Borghese
- Orto Botanico
- LAC – Light Art Collection
- Palazzo Brancaccio
- Palazzo Valentini
- Provincia di Roma
- Museo dell'Acropoli di Atene
- British Museum
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Atene
- Museo di Olimpia
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Musei Vaticani
- Museo del Louvre
- Museo Archeologico di Bologna
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna
- Museo Archeologico di Napoli
- Archivio Cambellotti
- Archivio Emilio Prini
- Skira
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Leeuwarden
- Netherlands
- Hilversum
- Monteverde Vecchio
- Pireo
- Greece
- Kuortane
- Finland
- Helsinki
- Naples
- Potenza
- Florence
- Forte Belvedere
- Stresa
- Berlin
- Australia
- France
- United States
- Siegen
- Germany
- Antwerp
- Belgium
- Turin
- Foro Boario
- Arco di Giano
- Gianicolo
- Trastevere
- Spain
- Athens
- London
- United Kingdom
- Vienna
- Austria
- New York
- Paris
- Ravenna
- Bologna