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UP Magazine’s 2022 Editors’ Choice List

Here at UP, we chase the wildest, strangest, and most heart-filled stories out there, but there were a few that stuck out to us this year. Enjoy reading our Editor’s Choice Articles of 2022!

Painting with Emotions at Extempor-Art

Close to Rome’s famous Piazza Navona you’ll find the small art shop and gallary Extempor-ART. If you step inside, you’ll immediately be surrounded by a sea of bright colors and a good amount of enthusiasm of owner Renato Mazza.

Beauty as a Bulwark: Rome’s Inhabited Museum, MAAM

An old, abandoned factory on the outskirts of Rome – where 200 people live – is a veritable treasure trove of beauty with more than 650 works of contemporary art. UP Magazine went to visit the only inhabited museum in the world.

Greta Thunberg, Frida Kahlo, A Crying Wonder in Rome’s Trullo Neighborhood

Rome’s Trullo neighborhood in the south-western part of the city is a symbol of poverty, unemployment and social decay. Yet, for some time, Trullo has managed to attract a good deal of art lovers which meander through the quarter with attentive eyes. Because here, the street art mixes with street poetry, and it’s everywhere. On the walls, on the facades and hidden in backyards.

History of Graffiti in Rome: from Pompeii to the Metro B

Rome: a city of history, a city of glory. Also-one of the only cities in the world where subway graffiti survives to this day. From the early 90s to today, dozens of writers have stood in defiance of authority and battled for fame on the whizzing surfaces of Rome’s metro.