With a hearty buona sera! Mayor Ed Lee had welcomed the 2013 Year of Italian Culture to the Bay Area on December 12th, 2012 at San Francisco City Hall. Thus far, the Year has offered us exciting and insightful events from Giovanni Soldini and Team Maserati's record-breaking arrival in San Francisco, Italian Innovation Day and Italy at the Cleantech...
READ MOREThe Marche and Urbino, the UNESCO City that gave birth to the divine Raphael, on the occasion of the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S. , promote , together with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and the Superintendence of Urbino, the knowledge of the artistic heritage and of the museums of the Marche region, through the exhibition of the...
READ MOREThe Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Italian Consulate General in Philadelphia, Globus & Locus, Centro Altreitalie, and AISLLI (Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana) present, XXI AISLLI Conference Italicity The Languages of Italy in the United States betwe...
READ MOREOn the heels of a major retrospective at MOMA in New York, and at UCLA and the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, Luce Cinecittà and Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini/Cineteca di Bologna, in association with Colpa Cinema and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, present Pasolini, a sampling of the three periods of Italian film master Pier Paol...
READ MOREOn the occasion of 2013 Year of the Italian Culture in the US and of the Italian Month of Science, The Consulate General of Italy, The Italian Cultural Institute and The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation, cordially invite you to the screening of the documentary "The Magnificent Journey - The Italian endeavor in space...
READ MORELecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired. The National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble with Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director, soprano and the National Gallery of Art Chamber Players will perform the Comb...
READ MORENew York 05 March 2013Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has opened an exhibition entitled "'Piero della Francesca in America" at the Frick Collection in New York. The event came at the end of his two day-visit to the city, during which he met the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the General Assembly, Vuk Jeremi...
READ MOREU.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife Jill paid tribute to the Year of Italian Culture in the USA on the occasion of the "Opera Ball", one of the American capital's most important cultural events, which was organized with the help of the Washington National Opera (WNO) at Villa Firenze, residence of Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero.Over 5...
READ MOREEmbassy of Italy in Washington12 July 2012On 9 July Ambassador of Italy Claudio Bisogniero visited Detroit to meet with representatives of the Italian business community there. After meeting with FIAT-CHRYSLER CEO Sergio Marchionne, the ambassador had a working lunch with representatives of Oakland County, where a large number of Italian firms such...
READ MORECon l'esposizione del "David-Apollo" di Michelangelo nella prestigiosa cornice della National Gallery of Art di Washington, si è aperto ufficialmente il 12 dicembre l'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti. Il progetto è nato su iniziativa del Ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, presente alla cerimonia d'inaugurazione assieme a...
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