America Settentrionale

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30 January 2017

United States – Italian Consulate presents Italy’s successful managers: focus on Luca Maestri

Luca Maestri, Chief Financial Officer at Apple, will open the series of lectures on Italian executives who hold prestigious positions in international firms. The event, organised by the Italian Consulate in New York City, will take place on 10 February at 6 p.m. at the Consulate premises. The series “Managers: from Italy to top global businesses” is […]

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Interviews

30 January 2017

Alfano: “This Europe cannot give lessons to the United States” (Corriere della Sera)

Donal Trump’s measures? “I wasn’t expecting anything different”. The European Union’s call to order? “We won’t accept impositions from anybody, least of all from those who don’t respect agreements”. While the world looks on what is going on in the United States and our Country is on the brink of confronting Brussels on our public […]

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27 January 2017

Toronto showcases “workwear” through the prism of joy and elegance

On January 27 the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Toronto hosted “Workwear”, an exhibition designed and curated by Milan-based architect, designer and artist Alessandro Guerriero. The exhibition was first displayed at Milan’s Triennale with a view to promoting job opportunities for young people with disabilities, who were challenged to go from sketches to pattern development. […]

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19 January 2017

United States: The “Filming in Italy” project that promotes Italian cinema to begin in Los Angeles in February

The first edition of the “Filming in Italy” project is due to begin on 6 February in Los Angeles. The event has been designed to promote Italy as a film setting, and stems from an agreement between Tiziana Rocca’s Agnus Dei Production, the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles and its director, Valeria Rumori, and the Consulate […]

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12 January 2017

United States – Sardinian textiles on show at the Italian Cultural Institute

MURATS, the Sardinian regional museum of textile art, has provided a selection of exhibits for a show being held at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco from Thursday, 19 January to Friday, 24 February. “Sardinian textile production is fairly unknown outside the region and this show is intended to promote Sardinian craftwork and relaunch […]

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Press Releases

8 January 2017

UN: Alfano attends his first Security Council meeting in New York

Tomorrow, 9 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, will be in New York to attend the first meeting of the Security Council following the mandate conferred to Italy as a non-permanent member of the UNSC for 2017, where he will meet the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and the […]

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5 January 2017

United State – Guido Cagnacci’s Death of Cleopatra on show at the Italian Cultural Institute

Guido Cagnacci’s “Death of Cleopatra”, from the Pinacoteca di Brera, will be on show at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York until 19 January. The work by Cagnacci, a painter from the Baroque period (1601-1663), is characterised by the use of the chiaroscuro technique and by the sensuality released by most of his subjects. […]

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30 December 2016

Toronto – “Il tempo necessario”: mostra fotografica di Ljubodrag Andric

In occasione della mostra fotografica “Il Tempo Necessario” presso la Galleria dell’Istituto italiano di Cultura di Toronto, il prossimo 11 gennaio l’artista Lyubodrag Andric parlerà dei suoi lavori nel corso di una conversazione con Marta Braun, Graduate Program Director della Ryerson University. Una interessante occasione per scoprire di persona l’artista italo-canadese, le cui foto sono […]

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29 December 2016

From New Haven the news that ​Italian research has identified a new mechanism regarding ALS

The Journal of Neuroscience, the prestigious scientific periodical of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has published the results of a research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carried out by the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”of Milan and funded by AriSLA, Italian Research Fondation. Moving from observations made previously, the study highlights an anomaly of the enzyme known […]

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23 December 2016

United States – Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles hosts a symposium on Alberto Burri

“Burri Prometheia” is the title of a symposium organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), to discuss the legacy of Italian artist Alberto Burri through the largest of his work created outside of Italy: the ‘Grande Cretto Nero’ [the Large Black Crack] on show in […]

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20 December 2016

Ljubodrag Andric in Toronto with “The necessary time”

Toronto’s Italian Cultural Institute will be hosting Ljubodrag Andric’s photographic exhibition “The necessary time” until 18th January. To coincide with this exhibition, on 11th January, the artist will discuss his work during an evening event with Marta Braun, Graduate Program Director at Ryerson University. Andric was born in Belgrade to a playwright father and actress mother. […]

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14 December 2016

Washington – Two stolen artworks returned to Italy

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency returned to Italy an illuminated manuscript of the 14th Century and a 19th Century painting by Carelli in a ceremony recently held at the Italian Embassy in Washington.   “This ceremony marks another important phase in the long-standing cooperation between the […]

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