“Our entire Rome gallery has been transformed into the surreal living room of Mr. H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), and is imbued with his dreamy and disquieting atmospheres. The walls of Operativa have also become animated pages “torn” from painting and sculpture related to the master’s dreamlike narratives and fantastical horrors, intended to evoke the indifferent and indecipherable cosmos for the wandering being called man. An unprecedented, courageous, and fascinating exhibition project … a selection of works by Joanne Burke, Ennio Calabria, Duilio Cambellotti, Giuseppe Capitano, Fabrizio Clerici, Giovanni Copelli, Michela de Mattei, Cleo Fariselli, Luca Grimaldi, Emiliano Maggi, Marta Mancini, Salvatore Meli, Matteo Nasini, Sergio Ragalzi, Vincenzo Simon.” (Rough translation from the Italian).

At the OPERATIVA in Rome, Italy, September 14th to October 15th 2018.

The website doesn’t have details of the show, not having been updated since July. So here’s a picture on the rather pleasing and somewhat cosmic “MONOLITH / catching spaces” by Edoardo Dionea Cicconi, which was in the Operativa in May 2018.

The London Lovecraft Festival also has a New Playwriting Competition, though for UK writers only. Winners will see their work performed by a professional team at the London Lovecraft Festival in 2019. Deadline is midnight on 25th December 2018.

The Rhode Island School of Design (RSID) Museum Collection catalogue is now online. A blank search shows they currently have 12,903 item records online which also have images on them. No results for “Lovecraft”, and almost no local photography or scenes. Not a single “cat” either, which is surprising in so large a collection. Some “Roman” and “Egyptian” items, which we can probably assume Lovecraft once saw, but nothing that seems of interest in relation to his work.

But I did stumble on their record for Gregory Amenoff‘s wonderful “The Starry Floor” (1994).

They only have the one picture by him, but looking at images of his other work from the 1990s and 2000s, I’d say he’s definitely worth a look if you collect Lovecraftian art.