Vortici exhibition, Gallerie D’Italia – Naples
Credits: Salvatore Laporta

Naples show merges ancient Greek wine rituals

NAPLES — In ancient Greece, wine was never drunk alone. It was mixed with water, shared among guests reclining along the walls of a room, and governed by ritual.

That 2,500-year-old tradition of communal drinking is now the subject of a new exhibition in Naples, where a New York painter’s canvases and four ancient Greek vessels ask the same question from opposite ends of history: what happens to us when we drink together?

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