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While everyone else has been talking about Damien Hirst, Subodh Gupta's 1000 kilo sculpture, A Very Hungry God, has been floating in Venice's Grand Canal.

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Piaggio joins the mania for retro vehicles this summer: the new Vespa S is modelled on the 1970s 50 Special.

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For art lovers on the go...Italy's porta potty giant, Sebach, unveils these pretty portals in Milan.

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What is 2000 years old, weighs 5000 tons, and still creates an ethereal moving disc of light each and every day? Gorgeous Pantheon pics and more ~

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The Sky network's ad for soccer broadcasts aims to raise the number of female viewers. That's all fine and good but where can you buy those shoes?

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On a hot summer weekend, what could be more appealing than this watery couch, part of an ad campaign for Piscine Castiglione, a swimming pool design firm near Milan.

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British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid is building MAXXI, the Museum of XXIst Century Art for Rome. Ancient Rome's concrete revolution meets cutting-edge contemporary design! Opening 2009. Save the date!

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A giant red dog and eight pink crocodiles in a Renaissance courtyard by Bramante? "Cracking Art" at the Roman Cloister of Bramante

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Oliviero Toscani, former Benetton ad guru, has convinced the Italian porta-potty company Sebach to hold an international "dream toilet" competition.

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How to dress up a building that's closed for a long restoration? Photographer Patrizia Bonanzinga did it with a collage of photos showing compellingly detailed photos of what's happening inside. I like it better this way!

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Rome Redux: a digital recreation of ancient Rome created by archaeologists at the University of Virginia and UCLA is talking to Second Life about the possibility of virtual time travel!

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The Louis Vuitton store on Rome's Via Condotti recently got a face lift that included the installation of plasma screen stairs that play technicolor games.

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Posh enough for the Pope: a chic and contemporary hotel that showcases an important (but unfinished) Renaissance urban planning project.

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Such a modern building may seem unusual in Rome, but King Roselli Architects are helping to update the Eternal City's image with sleekly designed buildings like this new library at the Pontifical Lateran University.

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