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Dopo una pausa di tre settimane, tornano on line le storie di 'Cosmopolitalians'.Questa settimana voliamo a Los Angeles per conoscere Marco Regina, 35enne animatore della DreamWorks, partito da Matera ed oggi arrivato ad animare cartoni come 'Shrek' e 'Kung Fu Panda'.   L'Italia – "Ho sempre avuto la passione per il disegno, ma la società in...

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An untold chapter in WWII history, the story of the corps of unlikely soldiers who saved Italy's most precious art and architecture from destruction.   Author Ilaria Dagnini Brey is a journalist and translator who was born in Padua, Italy. She now lives in New York City with her husband, Carter Brey, the principal cellist of the New York Phi...

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Italian artist Yuri Ancarani makes seductive, hypnotic, engrossing films that delve deep into obscure subjects. This is his first solo exhibition in the U.S, and it will feature La malattia del ferro (The disease of iron), a trilogy of short films (Il Capo, 2010; Piattaforma Luna, 2011; Da Vinci, 2012), each focusing on a highly specialized occupat...

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On Tuesday, February 10th, the Italian Cultural Institute in L.A. commemorated the 750th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's birth. However, this is just the first "course" of a varied and rich menu, offered by the IIC, celebrating the Italian language from next October on.   The special screenings were introduced by Prof. Massimo Ciavolella, w...

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La prima parola che ha imparato da bambino è stata "Chianti". Quel profumo del vino e del cibo italiano è entrato in maniera profonda e indelebile nella sua mente. Sin da quando, da ragazzino, nella scintillante Los Angeles, andava ad aiutare il padre Emilio nel suo ristorante. Nato ad Hollywood, da padre emigrato dall'Abruzzo e da mamma inglese,...

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This international conference commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514 -1564), the Flemish founder of modern anatomy and the author of De humani corporis fabrica, and the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius, the founder of the Aldine Press in Venice. UCLA Library Special Collections houses one of the wo...

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June 2013 - Los Angeles - Italian Cultural Institute   A conversation with the authors of the novels selected as finalists for the 2013 edition of the Premio Strega that includes Los Angeles as the only USA location for one of its readers Committes around the world.   The prestigious Premio Strega is an Award presented in Ro...

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April 27, 3pm - 5pm MOCA Grand Avenue's - Ahmanson Auditorium250 South Grand Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90012 Discover Cinema Vezzoli from the perspective of the artist on the exhibition's opening day!   Francesco Vezzoli and Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, discus...

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Following its highly acclaimed debut in New York in March, the multimedia exhibit exploring the life and career of multiple GRAMMY Award winner Frank Sinatra will get its Los Angeles premiere at the GRAMMY Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015.   As the official exhibit of the 2015 Frank Sinatra Centennial, Sinatra: An American Icon traces 100...

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Torna anche quest'anno "Cinema Italian Style", rassegna ideata da Luce Cinecittà in programma all'American Cinematheque da oggi e fino al 20 novembre. Dopo il successo delle precedenti edizioni, la rassegna proporrà il meglio del cinema italiano contemporaneo attraverso una selezione dei titoli che hanno riscosso maggior successo nel 2012, aprendo...

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