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  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of Berkshire pork cutlet curry and marinated roasted vegetables are here one the table of the  new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of Berkshire pork cutlet curry and marinated roasted vegetables are here one the table of the  new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have dinner at the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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    curry013.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of Berkshire pork cutlet curry and marinated roasted vegetables are here one the table of the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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    curry010.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have dinner at the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
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    curry008.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of Berkshire pork cutlet curry and marinated roasted vegetables are here one the table of the  new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
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    curry007.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A glass cylinder of marinated roasted vegetables is here on the table of  the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry004.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have dinner at the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry003.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have dinner at the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry001.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of Berkshire pork cutlet curry and marinated roasted vegetables are here one the table of the  new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry012.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of Berkshire pork cutlet curry and marinated roasted vegetables are here one the table of the  new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry011.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have dinner at the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry009.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of Berkshire pork cutlet curry and marinated roasted vegetables are here one the table of the  new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry006.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A glass cylinder of marinated roasted vegetables is here on the table of  the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry005.jpg
  • 24 July, 2008. New York, NY. A glass cylinder of marinated roasted vegetables is here on the table of  the new Japanese curry restaurant, Curry-Ya, which opened  in the East Village last month on June 24th.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    curry002.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait outside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304382.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait in front of the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304358.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait inside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304276.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: The doorknob of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304106.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304536.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304531.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304528.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304525.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304521.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304519.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304507.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304495.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304483.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304481.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: A view the window and the interior of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304418.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait outside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304372.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait in front of the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304352.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait outside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304369.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait in front of the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304347.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait as he kneels in sign of respect in front of the activist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304339.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait as he kneels in sign of respect in front of the activist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304319.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait inside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304284.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait as he kneels in sign of respect inside the activist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304255.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait as he kneels in sign of respect inside the activist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304242.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait as he kneels in sign of respect inside the activist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304241.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait as he kneels in sign of respect inside the activist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304194.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait as he kneels in sign of respect inside the activist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304182.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: American artist Ryan Mendoza (49), who preserved and rebuilt the house of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks, poses for a portrait inside the acitivist's house, on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304169.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020:The house of  American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304125.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020:The entrance door of  American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304122.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020:The house number (2672 South Deacon Street in Detroit) of  American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
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In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304119.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: A window of the Royal Palace is seen through the window of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304114.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: The interior of of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304095.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: A door hangs inside American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, here on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304076.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: A door hangs inside American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, here on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304073.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: The interior of of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304025.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: The interior of of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here on display in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304021.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: A window of the Royal Palace is reflected through the window of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M303999.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 8 MAY 2019: "Chair for the Invigilator (brown)" (2019) by Augustas Serapinas is seen here in the Arsenale during the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, on May 8th 2019.<br />
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The 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled "May You Live In Interesting Times”,is curated by Ralph Rugoff.  The Exhibition is is divided into two separate presentations, Proposition A in the Arsenale and Proposition B in the Giardini’s Central Pavilion, comprising 79 artists from all over the world.  “May You Live In Interesting Times highlights artworks whose forms function in part to call attention to what forms conceal and the multifarious purposes that they fulfil. In an indirect manner, then, perhaps these artworks can serve as a kind of guide for how to live and think in ‘interesting times’.
    CIPG_20190509_NYT_Biennale_M3_6102.jpg
  • COMISO (RAGUSA), ITALY - 19 MARCH 2019: Tools are seen here by Travertino stone blocks in a sawmill in Comiso (Ragusa), Italy, on March 19th 2019.<br />
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The pietra pece (pitchstone) is a type of limestone which is charachterized by different percentages of bitumen.<br />
This morphologic origin makes the pietra pece particularly unique for its peculiar chromatic shading.<br />
In fact, the pietra pece is also called "asphaltic stone" because it has a colour that varies from gray to dark brown.    <br />
The company DESCAT has been the owner of the registered trademark of the pietra pece since 2014 and it has the ownership of the only extractive pietra pece quarry situated in the Tabuna/Cortolillo district in Ragusa, Sicily. The pietra is distributed by Artigianato Industriale.
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  • RAGUSA, ITALY - 19 MARCH 2019: View of Ragusa Ibla in Ragusa, Italy, on March 19th 2019.<br />
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The pietra pece (pitchstone) is a type of limestone which is charachterized by different percentages of bitumen.<br />
This morphologic origin makes the pietra pece particularly unique for its peculiar chromatic shading.<br />
In fact, the pietra pece is also called "asphaltic stone" because it has a colour that varies from gray to dark brown.    <br />
The company DESCAT has been the owner of the registered trademark of the pietra pece since 2014 and it has the ownership of the only extractive pietra pece quarry situated in the Tabuna/Cortolillo district in Ragusa, Sicily. The pietra is distributed by Artigianato Industriale.
    CIPG_20190319_MONOCLE-PietraPece_M3_...jpg
  • CHIARAMONTE GULFI (RAGUSA), ITALY - 19 MARCH 2019: Biagio Amarù, CEO of Artigianato Industriale - which produces the Pietra Pece - poses for a portrait next to a Pietra Pece in the Artigianto Industrialre manufacturing plant in Chiaramonte Gulfi (Ragusa), Italy, on March 19th 2019.<br />
<br />
The pietra pece (pitchstone) is a type of limestone which is charachterized by different percentages of bitumen.<br />
This morphologic origin makes the pietra pece particularly unique for its peculiar chromatic shading.<br />
In fact, the pietra pece is also called "asphaltic stone" because it has a colour that varies from gray to dark brown.    <br />
The company DESCAT has been the owner of the registered trademark of the pietra pece since 2014 and it has the ownership of the only extractive pietra pece quarry situated in the Tabuna/Cortolillo district in Ragusa, Sicily. The pietra is distributed by Artigianato Industriale.
    CIPG_20190319_MONOCLE-PietraPece_M3_...jpg
  • CHIARAMONTE GULFI (RAGUSA), ITALY - 19 MARCH 2019: Tiles of Pietra Pece are seen here in the Artigianto Industrialre manufacturing plant in Chiaramonte Gulfi (Ragusa), Italy, on March 19th 2019.<br />
<br />
The pietra pece (pitchstone) is a type of limestone which is charachterized by different percentages of bitumen.<br />
This morphologic origin makes the pietra pece particularly unique for its peculiar chromatic shading.<br />
In fact, the pietra pece is also called "asphaltic stone" because it has a colour that varies from gray to dark brown.    <br />
The company DESCAT has been the owner of the registered trademark of the pietra pece since 2014 and it has the ownership of the only extractive pietra pece quarry situated in the Tabuna/Cortolillo district in Ragusa, Sicily. The pietra is distributed by Artigianato Industriale.
    CIPG_20190319_MONOCLE-PietraPece_M3_...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 SEPTEMBER 2020: Rosa Parks' house, preserved and rebuilt by American artist Ryan Mendoza, is seen here in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy, on September 12th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 2017, Rosa Parks' wooden house went on display in Berlin after it was rescued from demolition in Detroit. Then Brown University acquired it, and it went back to the United States, where it moldered in storage while artist Ryan Mendoza campaigned to erect it on the White House lawn. After years of trying, Mr. Mendoza decided the next best thing would be to rebuild it in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples, Italy:<br />
the project "Almost Home - The Rosa Parks House Project" by the artist Ryan Mendoza  will be unveiled there on Sept. 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
The project came about in 2016, when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition. Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.<br />
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
    CIPG_20200912_NYT-RosaParks_7M304499.jpg
  • TORRE ANNUNZIATA, ITALY - 3 JANUARY 2020: Co-owner Grazia (60) is seen here before browning fresh tomatoes in the kitchen of Doc Sicil Oplontis, a delicatessen and small restaurant in Torre Annunziata, Italy, on January 3rd 2020.<br />
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Doc Sicil Oplontis is next to the excavations of Oplontis archeological site, a World Heritage Site since 1997.<br />
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The idea of expanding the delicatessen into a small restaurant came about 20 years ago when John Clarke, an American archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at the University of Austin, Texas, came here to Oplontis for an Archaeological Excavation campaign.<br />
Professor Clarke came here every day to make sandwiches for his students from the University of Austin. But at lunchtime there were also many students from the adjacent school and he could not speak to his own students during the break. So the Professor asked Antonio if he could set up a small room for him where he could have a quick lunch with his students and also take stock of the situation every day.
    CIPG_20200103_CULBACK_Oplontis_M3_59...jpg
  • TORRE ANNUNZIATA, ITALY - 3 JANUARY 2020: Co-owner Grazia (60) is seen here before browning fresh tomatoes in the kitchen of Doc Sicil Oplontis, a delicatessen and small restaurant in Torre Annunziata, Italy, on January 3rd 2020.<br />
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Doc Sicil Oplontis is next to the excavations of Oplontis archeological site, a World Heritage Site since 1997.<br />
<br />
The idea of expanding the delicatessen into a small restaurant came about 20 years ago when John Clarke, an American archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at the University of Austin, Texas, came here to Oplontis for an Archaeological Excavation campaign.<br />
Professor Clarke came here every day to make sandwiches for his students from the University of Austin. But at lunchtime there were also many students from the adjacent school and he could not speak to his own students during the break. So the Professor asked Antonio if he could set up a small room for him where he could have a quick lunch with his students and also take stock of the situation every day.
    CIPG_20200103_CULBACK_Oplontis_M3_59...jpg