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...Fogg Art Museum hosted an unusual crowd last night, when its Italian Renaissance sculptures and 19th century French paintings were surrounded by undergraduates with greasy Felipe’s burritos and giant pizzas in hand bopping to a rock guitar tune. The occasion was the first of three “Night at the Fogg” events held by the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of Harvard Art Museums (OUR HUAM), aimed at encouraging more undergraduates to take advantage of Harvard’s art collection, sixth largest in the country according to the museum’s Director...
...excited to take this classic brand into the future and create a new, artist-centric, artist-friendly company driven by strong business principles," says Wagner, who likened their vision for UA to that of the Medici family's patronage of the arts during Italian Renaissance. In the works since early September, the UA deal has left Wagner and Cruise "completely open right now" to all varieties of film projects, Wagner told TIME, "ranging from high concept to smaller, character-driven films...
...massage that almost put me into a coma. When I ask my villa neighbors, Giuseppina Orlanduccio and Agustin Vazquez, both 22, what they like about Baros, Vazquez leans back on his outdoor daybed, grins lazily and replies, "The silence. The beach. We talk. It's perfect." If the young Italian couple suddenly got an urge to down some tequila, the bartenders at Baros' Sail Bar do mix one heck of a margarita. But under no circumstances will there be a dance contest. www.baros.com
...longer safe. After getting death threats from the local organized crime syndicate, he's keeping a low profile under 24-hour guard. Umberto Eco has compared the situation to the Islamic fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but the mob's violent persecution of muckrakers is, in fact, a particularly Italian legacy. "You need journalists," says Giovanni De Mauro, a Rome magazine editor whose journalist uncle was killed by the mob. "But then the battle must be waged by politicians and law enforcement." One day, they might help get Saviano back on his Vespa...
...Warrior Reporter Crusading Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci died last month in her native Florence at the age of 77. TIME discussed her notoriously aggressive approach to interviewing in the Nov. 29, 1968, issue...