for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; registered journalists with a valid ID card; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard; upon presenting at the ticket office a Frecciarossa or a Frecciargento ticket to Rome purchased between 27 November 2024 and 20 April 2025
valid for one year from the date of purchase
minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); myMAXXI membership cardholders; European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
6 Dec 2024 02.45 pm
talk + guided tourMAXXI EnergyThe sustainability worksite
8 Dec 2024 12.00 pm
guided toursMemorabileIpermoda
8 Dec 2024 04.30 pm
MAXXI for familiesio, Abito
10 Dec 2024 08.30 pm
concertA tribute to Arnold Schoenberg
11 Dec 2024 07.30 pm
music performanceLF58Radials
Graziella Lonardi Buontempo Hall – free entry until full capacity
The first 10 holders of the myMAXXI card to write to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it will have the possibility to reserve a seat
A dizzying play of mirrors that surprises and wrong-foots readers, never allowing them to feel secure
“Is there a gift of knowing how to live, a special talent for existing in the world, without which any other quality is rendered futile?” And what can you do if you find that you lack that gift?””
Tommaso Pincio
In the prison cell in which he is locked, a man narrates the story of his life. And from the depths of his despair, he interrogates himself about the meaning of knowing how to live, about whether there really is any one with a similar talent. A talent lacked even by Caravaggio, the artist about whom the man is obsessed.
This is the key to the new book by Tommaso Pincio, one of the most original Italian writers of his generation. While this is not a novel about Caravaggio, it is perhaps the most enthusiastic, innovative portrait of the painter ever produced. It is neither a work of fiction nor an autobiographical text. It is a moving attempt to confess the doomed and anti-heroic enterprise living is for all of us.
Introduce
Bartolomeo PietromarchiMAXXI Art Director
Intervengono
Tommaso Pincio author
Andrea Cortellessa literary critic and literary historian