MAXXI Gallery in Rome to open its futuristic doors to the public. ROME, May 28, 2010— -- The city known for its ancient monuments and baroque churches finally has two new contemporary art ...

Because Il Maratoneta, quietly hiding behind a flower stall, is just yards from Rome 's sensational new Museum of Art of the 21st Century – MAXXI (capital letters compulsory).

Inside an unremarkable looking building in the middle of Rome is one of the city's most opulent galleries. In the Colonna Gallery, you'll find a vast, baroque hall full of works of art.

Alex Israel surfs his way to Rome “The gallery has always struck me as the perfect space for showing sculpture. It’s also kind of shaped like a board,” says Alex Israel of the cavernous oval ...

It worked for Michelangelo and Borromini in 16th- and 17th-century Rome and for Wren and Hawksmoor in London after the Great Fire; churches were the ideal vehicle for both Pugin’s Victorian Gothic and ...

JMW Turner's Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (above) has been on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland for 30 years, but is being sold by the Earl of Rosebery's family at Sotheby's in London ...