Rome blog for Bed & Breakfast Chaplin Hostel

This Rome information blog is written for the guests of the Chaplin Bed & Breakfast in Rome.

From the 19th of February until the 18th of May the exhibition “China in the 21^st Century. Art between identity and transformation”, organized by Zhu Qi and Morgan Morris, will occupy one floor of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

The Chinese artists of the “post ‘89” generation exhibit a series of paintings, installations, videos and photographs, showing a wide variety of interpretations of Chinese society ranging from Pop Art to a new way of using the symbols of Communist China.

While the exhibition is going on, in one of the Palaexpo’s rooms, the painter Liu Xiaodong will realize a new work, to be named “Eat First”, a kind of “Last Supper” depicting 13 people eating Mediterranean food.

There is also space for cinema and literature. From February 21^st until May 18^th in the Sala Cinema and the Auditorium of the Palazzo delle Exposizioni there will be documentaries, shorts, full-length movies and discussions.

Various writers like Mian Mian (March 20th), Wang Shuo (April 22nd) and Su Tong (May 7^th) will read from their works in the Auditorium of the Palaexpo.

For practical information about opening hours, admission costs and directions to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni as well as about the duration of the exhibition visit the Rome blog contemporary exhibition page.

This Rome blog article was written for the guests of the Hostel Chaplin Bed and Breakfast Rome.

”In Scaena”

The imposing setting of the Colosseum, Rome’s most famous monument, forms the backdrop for this exhibition exploring the history of theatre in ancient Roman times.

Through some seventy statues, models, mosaics, masks and other works of art from museums around Italy, this show looks at the way in which the Romans built on the traditions of Greek drama and added elements from Etruscan and other cultures to develop their own form of mass entertainment that has provided inspiration for writers, actors and architects ever since.

This blog is written for my guests at the Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel Rome.

Pop Art Exhibition

Fifty artists and over one hundred works of art are on display in the exhibition e “Pop Art! 1956-1968”, in the Scuderie del Quirinale.

It is almost impossible to capture the essence of the style Pop Art in one definition, although one can pinpoint some of the characteristics: an interest in consumer culture, in the common, banal aspects of life, but also in the influence of the means of mass communication.

The first room is dedicated to Pop Art’s predecessors, while the following ones are ordered by theme: objects, portraits and brands, the historical events of the sixties (Kennedy’s death, the moon landing).

On the upper floor the exhibition goes back and forth between the high- and the lowbrow. The visitor can see that the artists did not only seek for inspiration in supermarkets and on tv, but also in museums themselves.

The last room is dedicated to the human body.

Pop Art, Gallerie del Quirinale, until January 27th

Directions from the Chaplin Bed and Breakfast

From B&B Chaplin Hostel Rome you need to take bus 64 until the end of Via Nazionale. Via XXIV Maggio is its last side street on the right.

This blog was created for the guests of the Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel Rome and the B&B Little Italy.

From Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel and Rome Termini you take bus 910. Ask the driver where to get off, for the museum is not really easily recognizable. From Hostel Little Italy B&B you take metro line A to Spagna (4 stops), find the Villa Borghese exit and walk along the eastside of the park till you come to the Galleria Borghese.

Please note that you cannot go to the Galleria Borghese without having made a reservation at least one day before your visit. It is possible to do this via the internet, but that has not always appeared to be equally reliable, so if you have booked your accommodation in Rome in Bed and Breakfast Little Italy or Chaplin Hostel we will gladly do this for you (for free of course). Especially during the high season it is advisable to secure the reservation well in advance of your visit to Rome.

Stanley Kubrick, until January 6th

From the Rome Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel take bus 40E or 64 and get off at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni stop.

Paul Gauguin, until February 3rd

From the Bed and Breakfast Little Italy Hostel Rome you take the metro to Termini where you change lines to get off at the line B Colosseo stop. After exiting cross the road, and turn right. Walk along the Roman Forum till you come to the Via San Pietro in Carcere on your right. From the Hostel Chaplin B&B Rome take the metro directly to the Colosseo stop.
From Cranach to Monet, until January 27th

Palazzo Ruspoli can be reached from the B&B Chaplin Hostel Rome by taking metro line A to Flaminio (4 stops). Look for the Piazza del Popolo-exit and when you hit the square, take the middle one of the 3 roads forming the tridente.
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