Archinect - News 2024-12-22T10:33:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/123353657/contemporary-art-in-an-8th-century-roman-church Contemporary Art in an 8th-Century Roman Church Nicholas Korody 2015-03-20T15:39:00-04:00 >2015-03-23T23:29:39-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/36/360c5fb86fd2ef93e467abd4ee5be087?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Next month, New York-based gallerist Gavin Brown will open a Rome gallery in an unexpected location: an 8th-century church named Sant&rsquo;Andrea de Scaphis at Via dei Vascellari 69 in the Trastevere&nbsp;neighborhood... &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that I was looking to open a place in Europe. I was looking to open this place in this building,&rdquo; [said Brown] &ldquo;I think a lot of people who run the kind of business I run have this real-estate problem...If you see empty buildings, you imagine what could be done there.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>