Rome’s 10 Unmissable Art Exhibitions This September

Until 28 September Running since last winter, Non basta ricordare is on at Rome’s MAXXI until the end of September. Prompting a dialogue between art and architecture, the 200 pieces on display all come from the museum’s collections and include works by Maurizio Cattelan, Gilbert & George, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, and Kara Walker among others. Interrogating the process of artistic creation and the place of the museum in the contemporary art world, works are selected and placed precisely to interact with the architectonic context surrounding them. Deliberately avoiding closed sections, the exhibition explores themes like life in the city and public spaces, political history, corporality and spirituality, and the future of the environment.

23 September – 8 November Hollywood’s famous son and the celebrated director of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper (1936 – 2010) also was a renowned photographer whose pictures feature in the collections of the Met and MoMA, among others. Capturing the bustling life of the arts scene in 1960s America, Hopper’s black-and-white photographs frame the faces of actors, musicians and artists from Jane Fonda and John Wayne to Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha. His Drugstore Camera pictures, shot during the 1970s, recount Hopper’s life in Taos, New Mexico, in a series of desert landscapes, friends’ portraits, indoor nudes, and still lives. Scratching the Surface at Gagosian presents a selection of these works alongside screenings of Hopper’s films and interviews.