The next few days are going to be great ones for underground art here in Rome, with events happening pretty much every night. Since it’s so unusual for this all to be happening, and can be hard to find if you’re not plugged in, I’m going to list everything here for you. I...

You might just look at this photo and see an iron R, but it’s much more than that. This is a very special R. One crafted by artist Rub about one year ago. This R kicked off the word Ratzinger, yes for the current Pope, which was crafted out of iron and hung on the Ponte Casilino on...

This weekend I finally went to the Forte Prenestino for the first time. There’s really no excuse for why I hadn’t been sooner except that it is far from my house. Forte Prenestino is one of the largest (if not the largest) and most famous centro sociali in Rome. It’s...

I was reading a new issue of Zero magazine this weekend (great resource for events all over Italy) and saw the artists Sten and Lex had been commissioned to do a stencil on the centro sociale Rialto Sant’Ambrogio. A few years ago I used to go to Rialto all the time, but then it got too...

As part of right wing Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno’s city “clean up,” the left wing centro sociale Ex-Horus was shut down by police earlier in the week. The club is just down the road from my house and has been occupied for the past year or so. I went there last year for...