The “Richard Avedon—In The American West 1979-1984” exhibit at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni, October 26th, 2026

The “Richard Avedon—In The American West 1979-1984” exhibit is currently on at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni.  

 
Richard Avedon was one of the world’s late, great photographers (he was born on May 15^th, 1923 and passed away on October 1^st, 2004).   The current photographic exhibit, which includes about 100 B&W portraits, is taken from Avedon’s book, “In The American West”.  

His  project came about in 1979 when he spent 5 years travelling around the American West photographing run-of-the-mill people who were going about their daily lives and jobs—cowboys, farmers, train personnel, vagabonds, truck drivers, motel waitresses—a bit of everything actually.

 
As far as the rather original portrait “The American Bee” is concerned Richard Fischer, the beekeeper from Oak Park, Illinois, responded to an ad in a local paper.  Bald-headed, shirtless and looking somewhat like a Buddhist Monk, Fischer accepted the offer and posed with about 100 live bees on his chest.  He was paid 100 dollars for his efforts, including having been stung a few times by his very same bees!

    

 

Avedon’s exhibit runs until January 31^st, 2027  (all pics taken with the Sony RX100 VII digital camera). 

Keith Haring’s splendid exhibit at Rome’s Palazzo Braschi, October 20th, 2026

Rome’s Museum, aka Palazzo Braschi (it’s located in front of Piazza Navona), is currently hosting Keith Haring’s superb exhibit until April 11^th, 2027. 

Up to 140 unique works of art are on hand from the “Nakamura Keith Haring Collection”, including his famous “Subway Drawings”.  

Some of the topics that Haring covered also included the 1980s AIDS endemic of which Keith himself died of complications on February 16th, 1990 in New York (he was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 4th, 1958).