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Galleria Rosso20sette celebrates 15 years. Shepard Fairey aka Obey, Natural Springs.

Piazza S. Egidio 1/b, tel. 060608, www.museodiromaintrastevere.it.

C’ERA UNA VOLTA SERGIO LEONE

17 Dec-3 May Rome pays tribute to the celebrated Italian film director, producer ACCAMEDIA FILARMONICA ROMANA The AFR has relaunched parts of its 2020 programme under the heading Insieme, Dal Vivo, to reboot what remains of its musical season. It has rescheduled some of its programmed concerts, giving the performers as well as the audience a chance to pick up almost from where the AFR left off when the covid-19 lockdown started in mid-March. There will be three concerts in the Assoli series (two on 5 July and one of 12 July). Assoli promotes and screenwriter Sergio Leone (1929-1989) with an exhibition at the Ara Pacis museum. Known primarily for popularising the Spaghetti Western genre with films such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone is also credited with influencing a new generation of directors, notably Quentin Tarantino. Organised by the Cineteca di Bologna, produced and curated in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, the “multisensory exhibition” offers insights into Leone’s cult films as well as his personal and professional life. Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta, tel. 060608, www.arapacis.it.

ELLIOTT ERWITT: ICONS

2 June-30 Aug Around 70 of the best known images by Elliott Erwitt, one of the world’s great masters of contemporary photography, are on display at WeGil, the cultural hub of the Lazio region in the Trastevere district. Erwitt has captured some of the most important moments in 20th-century history, from contemporary music, performed mainly by young musicians. The concert on 12 July includes three first-time performances of music by Lucio Gregoretti, Marcello Panni and Luis De Pablo performed by Andrea Biagini, flute, and Luigi Sini guitar. There are also concerts for children on 28 June and 5 July. Four evenings will be dedicated to promising young musicians. On 28 June Giorgio Trione Bartoli, piano, plays music by Rachmaninov. On 2 July the Duo Margoni - Loperfido (Ivos Margoni violin and Giulia Loperfido piano) performs music by Beethoven, Schumann and Franck. On 7 July Simone Ivaldi, piano, plays the meeting between Nixon and Khrushchev to the image of Jackie Kennedy at her husband’s funeral. Among the photographs on display in Rome are portraits of Che Guevara, Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe. The exhibition also includes images which illustrate a more intimate side to the photographer, with a nod to his love of the surreal and romantic, including the celebrated California Kiss, self-portraits and photographs of his first-born baby girl. WeGil, Largo Ascianghi 5, Trastevere, www.wegil.it.

JIM DINE

11 Feb-2 June Palazzo delle Esposizioni honours Jim Dine, the celebrated American exponent of Pop Art and the NeoDada movement, with an exhibition of around 80 works created between 1959 and 2016. The show also includes the works donated to the Centre George Pompidou by Dine who was elected as an academician by Rome’s prestigious Accademia Nazionale di S. Luca in 2018. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, tel. 06696271,

www.palazzoesposizioni.it.

Giorgio Trioni Bartoli performs for Accademia Filarmonica Romana.

music by Beethoven, Clementi and Schumann. On 9 July Claudio Berra, piano, plays music by Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy. All concerts are in the Sala Casella at the AFR’s home base, Via Flaminia 118, www. filarmonicaromana.org.