American art in Rome

Sixty works by leading post-war American artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol feature in a new exhibition which opened last Tuesday at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

The show, entitled ‘The Guggenheim: The American Avant-garde 1945-1980’, will run until May 6 and looks at the most seminal artistic movements of the era, from abstract expressionism to Pop Art to minimalism and conceptual art.

Works by around 50 artists exhibited will include paintings, sculptures and installations from the Guggenheim in New York as well as the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in Spain.

Other famous artists featured include Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Kenneth Noland and Church Close.

Art lovers can reach Rome from Malta on direct Air Malta, Alitalia and Easyjet flights.