Also in Rome, February will bring the long-awaited opening of Maxxi, the Italian National Museum of 20th-Century Art, buy Zaha Hadid. On the city’s outskirts, near Renzo Piano’s new music hall, Maxxi has been said, by The New York Times critic Nicolai Ouroussoff to “jolt this city back to the present like a thunderclap.” The galleries are tangled in layers of intertwining ribbons of space suggesting a flowing web that questions the very nature of traditional exhibition galleries. The contemporary art world is holding its collective breath, waiting to see how Hadid’s design responds when the collection is installed. Be there!

-The Editors

If you’re headed to Rome, ARTExpress has a couple of suggestions for your must-see list. Since its December opening, the White Gallery life-style, shopping, exhibition and dining complex in Piazza Marconi has caused quite a stir. Three stunning floors house numerous exhibition spaces, four restaurants, and luxury retailers, including Yogi Yamamoto, Jill Sander, Stella McCartney… and more. The centerpiece is a light sculpture called The Fluxus, by renowned designer Karim Rashid and artist Michela Vianello. In five colors, studded with sparkling halogen lights, it is an undulating ceiling made of woven Murano glass. Suspended and fluid, it flows above your head creating a truly magical environment.

-The Editors

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