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29 May 2014
Argentina – Buenos Aires celebrates Art Nouveau

“Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires and the Italian architects of the Centennial” is the title of a seminar organised for 9 June by the Italian Cultural Institute of the Argentine capital with curators Willi Pastrana, Ivan Malesaniand Alejandro Figueroa. During the year of the Centennial (1910) the emerging middle class contracted Italian architects to build […]

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29 May 2014
Italy-Usa – Journey through narrative and film in Washington

Nobel laureate for literature Mario Vargas Llosa, 3-time Oscar-winner Vittorio Storaro and award-winning writer Alessandro Barrico sat on a panel together last Friday at one of the US’s most beautiful universities – Washington’s Georgetown – for a “Voyage through the Fantastic World of Narrative and Cinema” , as part of the “Italian Culture – The […]

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28 May 2014
Recall – Giornata della trasparenza – Inaugurazione nuova Collezione Farnesina (Farnesina, 29 maggio 2014)

On Thursday 29 May 2014 at 9:30, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini will join Minister for Culture Dario Franceschini at the foreign ministry in Rome in inaugurating the new mounting of the Farnesina Collection, within the framework of the 3rd annual Transparency Day. The “Farnesina Art Collection” was set up in 2001, and has […]

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28 May 2014
Recall – Giornata della trasparenza – Inaugurazione nuova Collezione Farnesina (Farnesina, 29 maggio 2014)

Giovedì 29 maggio 2014, alle ore 19.30, alla Farnesina, il Ministro degli Esteri Federica Mogherini inaugurerà, insieme al Ministro per i Beni Culturali Dario Franceschini, il nuovo allestimento della Collezione Farnesina, nel quadro della III Giornata della Trasparenza. La “Collezione Farnesina Arte” è stata istituita nel 2000, ricorrendo alla formula del comodato d’uso gratuito. Da […]

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28 May 2014
Quito – UN praises Italy for restoration of San Francisco convent

The UN praised Italy for its contribution to the restoration and enhancement of the San Francisco convent complex in Quito. Participants in a recent ceremony for the presentation of its management plan included, among others, Ecuadoran Minister for Culture Francisco Velasco, Director of the INPC (international institute for cultural patrimony) Maria Josè Armijos, UN country […]

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28 May 2014
Japan – The Uffizi in Tokyo from October

The Uffizi Gallery will be “on tour” in Japan from 11 October to 14 December. The Tokyo residence of Ambassador DomenicoGiorgi hosted a press conference for the presentation of the initiative, which will be mounted at the city’s metropolitan museum and include over 70 workds by Italian Renaissance and Mannerist masters Boticelli, Andrea del Sarto, […]

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27 May 2014
Barcelona – Italy’s Unescoheritage on display Catalonia

Italy’s 45 UNESCO Heritage sites will be on display in a photographic exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona from 3 to 30 June. The photos are by Bologna-born photographer Luca Capuano, and this is the first exhibition of Italian UNESCO sites by a single author, created in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign […]

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27 May 2014
Tirana – Winning Albanian students describe Italy

Awards went to the winners of a competition for descriptions of Italy for Albanian students of Italian at the University of Tirana. The initiative was intended to stimulate the creativity of the Albanian students through the use of the Italian language as a writing tool. Read more, in Italian.

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27 May 2014
Japan – Dacia Maraini in Tokyo, writing and living

Childhood in Japan, from quiet years in peace to the sufferings of war and life in a prison camp with her entire family: Dacia Maraini’s shared a piece of her life in Tokyo during the event “Scrivere, vivere” hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute. Read more, in Italian

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26 May 2014
Argentina – The Verano Italiano returns

The “Verano Italiano” is a joint initiative that was created in 2013, and that involves our embassy and consulate general in Buenos Aires, Italian Cultural Institute, ENIT, ICE and the Argentine Ministry of Culture, aimed at celebrating Italian film, music, opera, art and enogastronomy. The official presentation of this year’s edition was given on 26 […]

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23 May 2014
Moscow – A stroll in “Russian Rome” between the centuries

How much Russia was there in 19 and 20th century Rome? We are told in “Passeggiata. La Roma russa. 1870-1920”, an exhibition curated by Bianca Sulpasso and Olga Strada and mounted at the Museum of Moscow by the Italian Cultural Institute with the support of the Italian embassy in Russia, University of Tor Vergata and […]

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23 May 2014
From Gaza toTromso – Pellegrin”Portraits” on display

World famous photo-journalist Paolo Pellegrin’s portraits of Palestinians in Gaza went on display in Tromso, where the Norwegian city will host the photo exhibit through 26 October. The show is being sponsored by the Perspektivet Museum, the Magnum Photo agency– where Pellegrin has worked since 2005 – and the Italian Cultural Institute of Oslo. Read […]

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