Rome’s Fabulous Maaxi Crippled By Money Issues

Maxxi is Rome’s new museum of 21st century art, and meant to be revolutionary in a city of art that hasn’t invested much in its architecture in the past century. “Maxxi is intended to put Rome on the map as a city that takes modern art seriously. Choosing Zaha Hadid, who last year won the Pritzker Prize, underlined the importance of the project.” Maxxi is “as revolutionary as anything that has emerged from her pen. It is not so much a building as some glass-and-steel worms slithering over each other.” But now the construction is being handicapped by money issues…