Idol Worship - NYTimes.com The satirical artist Francesco Vezzoli has always seemed more enchanted by movie stars and velvet ropes than by ivory towers. Still, curators can't get enough of him. This month the Italian-born bon vivant embarks on an artistic tour that he is calling "The Trinity." The event kicks off at the MAXXI national art museum in Rome, where his bedazzled portraits of pop stars like Lady Gaga will be on display alongside his needlepoints of various saints. Then, this fall, he will dismantle a deconsecrated 19th-century Italian church and rebuild it at MoMA PS1 in Queens. Vezzoli finishes up at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, with a show focusing fittingly on his obsession with all things cinematic. Asked if, at 41, a global retrospective might be premature, Vezzoli says, "I see this project more like a parody of a Cher farewell tour, a silly movie launch or a Fitzcarraldo experience - something extravagant and certainly not celebratory, at least in my intentions." "Galleria Vezzoli" at MAXXI, May 29 through Nov. 24; fondazionemaxxi.it.