The Head of Hades, a work of exceptional artistic value that had been looted from the area of Enna, Sicily, during the late 1970s and illegally exported to the United States, where it was sold to the Getty Museum in 1985 for 500,000 dollars, will be returned to Italy. The return was made possible thanks […]
Read more“Avant-garde XXI: Art and fashion in Italy and Guatemala” is the title of an exhibition organised and hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Guatemala City, which will run from Feb. 9 to 23. This collective exhibition is a preview of a show that Guatemalan artists and fashion designers will hold in March at […]
Read moreThe Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow has again this year, on the 71st anniversary of Remembrance Day, renewed its commitment to mark the event by organising an exhibition dedicated to the theme: Memories between past and present. The Holocaust and the drama of recent migrations: moments of mankind’s history divided in time but profoundly sharing […]
Read moreThe “Meet the New Italians of New York” project is holding its first meeting of 2016. The project is sponsored by the Italian Consulate General in the city and aims to attract the new generation of Italians, encouraging their participation in the activities of the Italian economic system. In recent days, young Italian researchers and […]
Read moreOn Wednesday, in commemoration of the Holocaust Memorial Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana together with the Tirana Youth Centre, will screen the documentary “Oro Macht Frei” (“Gold Will Set You Free”). The film, directed by Jeffrey X. Bonna, produced by Joel Markel and Catherine Campbell and written by Ms Campbell herself, narrates the […]
Read morePianist Alessandra Garosi will play “Italian Rhapsody” to open the 2016 season of the “Vivacissimo!” series organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney. The programme of recitals has been conceived and created to present internationally acclaimed artists in alternation with new talents whom the Institute is seeking to make more visible outside Italy. On […]
Read moreThe exhibition that will open on Monday, Jan. 25, at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Strasbourg is entitled: “Useful Graphic Design. Italy’s public service posters”. The show, displaying the posters of public interest produced by the institutions and local agencies of the different Italian Regions in the period from 1975 to 1990, is curated […]
Read moreItalian writer Alessandro Baricco is due to visit Colombia from Jan. 28 to Feb. 6. He will attend the Hay Festival in Cartagena from his arrival until Jan. 31. The Festival will conclude with a conference with journalist and editor Marcel Ventura at the Adolfo Mejia theatre. The festival, now at its 10th edition, is […]
Read moreThe “Matera, land of Sassi” photography exhibition was inaugurated on Friday, Jan. 22 at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Athens and will run until Feb. 20. The show, which was organised by the IIC, displays the shots taken by Greek photographer Jenny Lykourezou, who was fascinated by the magnificent setting of the “Sassi” of […]
Read moreIt was the 24th of October of 79 AD, apparently a Friday like any other in Pompeii, except that at 1 p.m. the nearby Vesuvius started releasing an amount of energy equal to that of 50,000 atomic bombs in less than 20 hours, burying the city under a scorching fallout of ashes and gas and […]
Read moreAn exhibition entitled “Da Vinci, the Legacy of a Genius” is being held in Osaka to celebrate 35 years of twinning between the Japanese city and Milan. The event, which focuses on “Leonardo the scientist”, runs until Feb. 14. It is divided into sections: the first, dedicated to the past, includes reproductions of machines designed […]
Read moreAn exhibition called “Stampone – Banerjee and The Third Meaning” has been opened at the Italian Cultural Institute in New Delhi. The project, created by curators Eugenio Viola and Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, is an opportunity for dialogue between two artists, two curators and between two different methods, more generally consolidating cultural exchanges between Italy and […]
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