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16 December 2016
Brussels – Statue of St. John the Baptist returned to Italy

The Italian Embassy in Belgium informs that on 15 December a work of art illegally taken from Italy’s artistic heritage was returned to the Country in Brussels. The work of art is an almost 1-meter-high white Carrara marble statue of St. John the Baptist attributed to the16th Century artist Gerolamo Galizzi, a.k.a. Gerolamo di Santacroce […]

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15 December 2016
Tokyo – Enrico Rava on tour in Japan: first stop the IIC

“Enrico Rava and Japanese Friends”, is the name of Enrico Rava’s Japanese tour that starts on 15th December at the Institute of Culture in Tokyo and continues on the 16th in Fukuoka, the 17th at the Garaman Hall in Okinawa and the 18th at the Knowledge in Osaka.Accompanied for the first time by an entirely […]

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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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12 December 2016
Switzerland – Month-long tribute will be paid to Mario Monicelli

Switzerland will pay a month-long tribute to Mario Monicelli, the last witness of a glorious season for Italian cinema, in a festival that is due to start on 1 January and run until 30 January. The Italian Cultural Institute in Zurich announced that the films by the famous artist that will be shown are 12, […]

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9 December 2016
Australia – Giuseppe Modica on show in Sydney

Giuseppe Modica, first time in Australia, will present Atelier di luce e di memoria (Light and Memory Atelier), a solo exhibition . Sasha Grishin, art critic and professor emeritus at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics  of the Australian National University of Canberra, will present Giuseppe Modica’s work. Modica is one of the most representative artists in the Italian contemporary […]

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9 December 2016
China – Italiantaste Photo Contest dedicated to Italian cuisine. The prize is a trip to Sardinia

Promoting the image of Italy and Chinese tourism in the country with innovative ideas, through the use of social media and the engagement of the most popular photography bloggers.  This was the idea behind #Italiantaste, the photo contest organised by the Italian Embassy in Beijing and addressed to Chinese tourists who visited Italy. “The first edition of the ‘Week of […]

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9 December 2016
London – “Michelangelo Pistoletto at Blenheim Palace”,

There is time until 31 December to visit the exhibition “Michelangelo Pistoletto at Blenheim Palace”, curated by the Blenheim Art Foundation in conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute in London. The exhibition gives an overview of the artist – among the most influential in the 20th Century – by showing his paintings, sculptures and installations, […]

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7 December 2016
France – Study Day in Paris on Ungaretti’s “Il Porto Sepolto”

In December 1916, private Giuseppe Ungaretti published “Il Porto Sepolto”, his first pamphlet of 33 poems in 80 copies, an implosion of language and prosody; this booklet was to revolutionize Italian poetic creation and counted Apollinaire and Breton amongst its readers.  A hundred years later, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris presents a Study Day dedicated […]

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7 December 2016
Vincenzo Grassi new Secretary General of the European University Institute

Ambassador Vincenzo Grassi is the new Secretary General of the European University Institute (EUI) of Florence. A long-standing expert of European Institutions, Ambassador Grassi was Head of the Department for European Policies at the Prime Minister’s Office, served in the Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels and as Ambassador to Belgium. The European University […]

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6 December 2016
China – Faenza pottery lands in China

Selected pieces from the Museo Internazionale di Ceramiche (Mic – International Pottery Museum) in Faenza are about to fly to China where they will tour several museums. The travelling exhibition, running from 9 December to 25 March, will be hosted by five major Chinese museums: Henan Museum,  Zhejiang Provincial museum,  Liaoning Provincial Museum, Shanxi Museum and […]

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