LoveITDetroit celebrates the sustainability of Italian design

After the success of the 2022 edition, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan are taking the second edition of their “LoveITDetroit” project to the Detroit Month of Design. This year, the project won the first “City of Italian Creativity in the World” call for tenders from the Ministry […]

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Voices from the Farnesina – Avamposti (Outposts). Italy in frontier places: Australia

Italy has 129 embassies in the world, many of which represent our country in geographically distant and, for various aspects, little-known contexts. “Avamposti”, the new podcast series produced in collaboration with the AGI news agency, has selected some of them to describe their different facets and also analyse them in the light of their relations […]

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Mission of Italian Undersecretary Silli to the Dominican Republic (30-31 August)

Italian Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Giorgio Silli, went on a diplomatic mission to the Dominican Republic to co-chair together with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, José Julio Gomez, the second session of the Political Dialogue Mechanism – the main forum for consultation between Rome and […]

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“Golden Age”: the Italian design on show in New York

On the occasion of the Art Week New York, from 5 to 10 September, the Italian Cultural Institute presents “Golden Age”, the exhibition featuring works of art and design objects, realised by Officina della Scala to outline the virtuosity of Made in Italy’s handicraft and the sustainability it represents worldwide. The exhibited works will include pieces made with precious materials […]

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Italy at the forefront for the reconstruction of Odessa and its cathedral

TOLEDO – The President of MAXXI, Alessandro Giuli, and the President of the Triennale di Milano, Stefano Boeri, will be in Odessa on 6-7 September to hold talks with the local authorities and survey the destroyed sites, starting with the Transfiguration Cathedral. They will be joined by UNESCO’s Representative to Ukraine, Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi, and […]

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Copenhagen: an exhibition on Italian inspiration in Danish theatre

The Italian Cultural Institute of Copenhagen presents a new version of the exhibition “Tre secoli di ispirazione italiana nel teatro danese. Da Ludvig Holberg a Dario Fo” (“Three Centuries of Italian Inspiration in Danish Theatre. From Ludvig Holberg to Dario Fo”), already on display last spring at the National Library in Rome. Transferred to the […]

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Italian jazz stars at Detroit Festival

As part of the 2023 edition of the Detroit Jazz Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago is presenting a performance by the quartet made up of the Milan-based group “Hurricane Trio” – Roberto Mattei on bass, Lorenzo Blardone on piano and Massimiliano Salina on drums – together with Detroit saxophonist Chris Collins, who is […]

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Mission of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, to Toledo to attend the Gymnich meeting

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, will be in Toledo today and tomorrow, 30-31 August, to attend the Informal Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (Gymnich). The meeting will focus on the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the crisis in Niger, as well as its […]

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“Calvino qui e altrove” lands in Sofia

To mark the 100th anniversary of Italo Calvino’s birth and as part of the initiatives organised by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to celebrate the great author, the Italian Embassy in Bulgaria and the Italian Cultural Institute of Sofia are presenting the exhibition “Calvino qui e altrove” (Calvino here and elsewhere) […]

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Tokyo, exhibition of comic artists Hisashi and Tieri

The Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo has organised an exhibition dedicated to the works of two comic artists, the Italian Luca Tieri and the Japanese Eguchi Hisashi. The exhibition, titled “TOKYO ARTE POP”, organised in collaboration with Tokyo Shinbun and to be held in the Japanese capital from 1 September to 29 October 2023, explores […]

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Flu水o in Shanghai

The Italian Cultural Institute of Shanghai, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai, the Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM) and Arthub Shanghai, is pleased to present the exhibition “Fluxo (Flu水o)”, scheduled from 1 September to 12 October 2023. The exhibition uses multimedia techniques to display a visionary long-term project. Born from an […]

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Telephone conversation between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, and Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Attaf

On 25 August, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, had a friendly telephone conversation with Algeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ahmed Attaf. The conversation focused on the delicate situation in Niger, which also sees Algiers at the forefront of regional mediation efforts. Tajani reaffirmed […]

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