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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014

Exhibit Opening and Concert On the occasion of Remembrance Day 2014, the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute presents the exhibit Memories and Light followed by the concert Italian Jewish Composers 1914-1945. The photo painting installation is a series of colored images shot sequentially amidst 2711 grey slabs evoking the headstones of murdered Jews. The concert […]

Memories and Light

by Lisa Borgiani International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, is photographed and interpreted through a present day lens. A Field of Stelae, creating a labyrinth of concrete blocks, exemplifies the profound anguish cemented in the memory of the Jews massacred by the Nazi […]

Italian Jewish Composers 1914 – 1945

Caroline Helton, soprano – Kathryn Goodson, piano INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2014 On the occasion of Remembrance Day 2014, the Istituto will present a concert to remember Italian Jewish composers. They were generally very well integrated in Italian society, but everything changed with the enforcement of the racial laws after 1938 and even more in […]

RESCHEDULED: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy. Starring in all three episodes Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film won the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards. Director: Vittorio De Sica – Italy 1963 – 118 min. Marriage […]

Ludwig – Richard Wagner Revisited

At National Gallery of Art Bavarian King Ludwig II became Richard Wagner’s patron, supporting him financially and permitting the composer to create such works as Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, to premiere his Tristan und Isolde, and even to establish the Bayreuth Festival. Filled with Wagner’s music (and that of other German composers), Luchino Visconti’s lavish depiction of […]

La scomparsa di Patò

by Rocco Mortelliti CINEFORUM with Italians in DC Every year on Good Friday the Sicilian town of Vigata is graced with a play on Jesus Christ’s Passion, enacted by local actors. They are all amateurs, but experience, commitment and natural skills make the show the highlight of Vigata’s theatrical life. The most gifted participant is […]

Rare Diseases: State of the Art for a Global Alliance

GLOBAL HEALTH A symposium on Rare Diseases within the framework of the Intergovernmental agreement between the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America and the Ministry of Health of Italy with the collaboration of NIH, USA and ISS, Italy. ( more info ) Domenica Taruscio, Director of the National Centre […]

Foresight in medicine: research induced society changes in the next decade

I Am Not My Body. I Am My Mind: in memory of Rita Levi-Montalcini The symposium hosts a debate among scientists, doctors, policy makers and epistemologists aimed at identifying forthcoming medical research developments likely to impact on society in the next ten years. ( more info ) Keynote speaker: Louis Ignarro, Nobel Laureate 1998. In […]

The Dying Gaul: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome

at National Gallery of Art One of the most famous works from antiquity, the Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman sculpture created during the first or second century AD. The masterpiece will travel outside of Italy for the first time in more than two centuries on view at National Gallery. MORE INFO: click here ON VIEW […]

Siamo quel che mangiamo?

Are we what we eat? Sustainability and Art At Corcoran College of Art + Design Italian and American artists from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington DC, have joined forces to create a series of artworks investigating the theme of nutrition. The artistic research […]