The Sum Total Newsletter
Peter Thomas LangThe Sum Total Newsletter is evolving into a travelogue through contemporary culture: we are based in Rome Italy, and besides writing about life and culture here, we take on some of the most poignant issues effecting our lives today.
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Blast from the Past series: "the Bastioned TV wall: recycle your old screens." A grand scale comic strip for the televisually impaired.
NOTE: Every once and I while I plan to visit my archive and highlight works that continue to speak to today’s absurdist social condition. If you are interested in seeing more from my archival collection please leave me a note.
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In 1959 Rothko walked into Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence and found the heart of darkness. It's worth the visit to see why.
Interior detail of the Vestibule in the Laurentian Library conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti. The interior vestibule and upper library were designed between 1519 and 1534. Photo PtL.
When I’m in Florence I usually end up walking past t...
Slaughterhouse 9: the old cattle pens in Rome's ex-meat market are herding visitors to culture. The latest make-over is for a museum dedicated to photography.
The main entrance to the Stabilimento di Mattazione— (Slaughterhouse), from side facing Monte di Cocci, history’s first garbage dump.
Kurt Vonnegut’s semi-fictional autobiography Slaughterhouse 5, published in 1969, repeatedly relived the...
The monumental dissolve. Reflections on the legacy of public monuments and the fragility of place.
MYTHIC ACRYLIC.
One of the most positive things that came out of “Monument counter Monument,” the exhibition that Carmelo Baglivo curated on my work for the Galleria Embrice in Rome last March, just about a year ago, was the resulting post...
Paolo Porteghesi's spiraling countryside villa outside Rome broke ground in 1972 and took years to complete. The house is one of the earlier examples of a postmodern residence in Italy.
View looking down the spiral stair as it winds through the house’s tower. Photo PtL.
The architect Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023) was both a highly successful architectural practitioner and a respected historian, and he played a key role in...
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