.IT Italian Art Today at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
This exhibition, curated by Silvia Girardi, explores the individuality and experimentation of eight Italian contemporary artists, active both in Italy and internationally.Artists: Matteo Bergamasco, Mariella Bettineschi, Davide Coltro, Renato DAgostin, Francesco De Grandi, Daniele Girardi, Angelo Musco, Antonio Pio Sa...racino.Opening event with th...
The Medici gem collectors of the Italian Renaissance come to Bowers Museum More Information: http://artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62453#.UY1EjLUqzTp[/url] Copyright © artdaily.org
SANTA ANA, CA.- Gems of the Medici, an acclaimed international exhibition, highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating from the 1st Century BCE as well as a cornelian which was part of the Seal of Nero. This touring exhibition will transport visitors to 15th century Italy and beyond by...
The 33rd annual San Jose’s Italian Family Festa
By Roberto Natalini For the thirty-third year, the Italian American Heritage Foundation held its much-anticipated signature event, the Italian Family Festa. The weather could not have been more cooperative for the two-day event, held at the Guadalupe River and Gardens Park, adjacent to San Jose's Little Italy, where San Jose's original It...
Small Utopias: Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation
SMALL UTOPIAS: Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation is an exhibition on the "new" Italian architecture curated and designed by MAXXI Architettura for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The itinerary of the show explores the most notable tendencies in new Italian architecture by focusing on thre...
Majolica expert Igor Bertolucci to speak at il Cenacolo luncheon
Igor Bertolucci, majolica expert and cinematographer, will speak at Il Cenacolo Italian Cultural Club at their Thursday luncheon this week, June 12, 2014. His topic will be: "The Art and Craft of Majolica Pottery," and will include a video presentation. Pottery has accompanied human civilization since the dawn of time. At first used primarily as c...
They are doing a Cooking Show…
No seriously, and it's awesome. Barilla brand pasta and La Famiglia al Dente presents: Cucina Dell'Arte! Mamma Focaccia and her daughters, Argentina and Gianetta, teach you the art of the kitchen! Secret "La Famiglia al Dente" recipes will be revealed and delicious food prepared live on stage with the help of the cheese merchant Federico...
Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945
The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged arch...
Italian Street Painting Marin, CA
By Alysia Gray Painter The heart of Carnevale in Venice is art, and all of art's attending qualities: mystery, beauty, history, joy, mirth, depth. Revelers don colorful, ribbon-bedecked masks as part of the highly visual scene, and feasts for the eyes reign. It can be difficult to summon the spirit of the canal-beautiful town to o...
A conversation with the L.A.-based artist, Nicola Verlato, on his tribute to Pasolini
by Valerio Viale On November 2, 1975, the Italian intellectual, poet, novelist, filmmaker – in a word: Artist in capital letter – Pier Paolo Pasolini, was brutally murdered in Ostia, coastal area near Rome. Forty years later, the Italian Cultural Institute in L.A., remembered the tragedy, demonstrating how much this iconic personality is s...
Donald Osborne: Transatlantic Style, Una Storia d'amore di Pinne e Cromature
Data: Mer 21 Set 2016 - Orario: Alle 18:30 Luogo: Italian Cultural Institute of LA, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Organizzato da : IIC & Italian American Chamber of Commerce West Los Angeles - Ingresso : Libero In anticipazione della XVI Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo che esplora il tema L'Italiano e creat...
Festa Italia celebrates all things Italian in Monterey
By Tom Leyde Festa Italia is about food. It's about music. It's about commercial fishing. It's about family. It's about life and love. The 83rd version of the annual festa had its finale Sunday in Custom House Plaza. Those who attended did just what the festa program suggested: "eat, drink and be Italian." For Italian/Sicilian famili...
Monterey Peninsula Italian Americans to be honored
It'll be about the pasta, the wine, and the friendships Friday night at the Monterey Marriott. But Friday's 10th annual Italian American Cultural Foundation dinner will mostly be about four honorees who have established themselves as an important part of the Italian American fabric of the Peninsula, and have made significant contributions to the lo...