La Kriptonite nella Borsa, a film by Ivan Cotroneo
It is a story about love, but above all, a coming-of-age story which fishes out memories from a Naples experienced as a child. La Kryptonite nella Borsa (Kriptonite!) is, in fact, set in 1973, when Naples was certainly not rich, but was experiencing a wind of change in social and sexual customs. Peppino (Luigi Catani) […]
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Enrico Fermi, the Pope of Physics
An exceptional Lecture, open to a general audience, by the Keynote Speakers: Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin Authors of the recent and acclaimed book “The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age” Enrico Fermi, Italy’s greatest physicist since Galileo, was unique in a number of ways, including […]
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The Venice Ghetto 500 Years of Life
This event is part of the series La Serenissima (February 3-21,2017), a Music and Arts Festival, organized by Carnegie Hall, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, The Jewish Museum, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Centro Primo Levi, and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. SYNOPSIS: “The Venice Ghetto, 500 years of life” […]
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9 X 10 Novanta, a documentary film
In 2014 the Istituto Luce turned 90, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and the unique treasure of images stored in the Luce Archives. To celebrate its anniversary, some of the most acclaimed rising filmmakers in Italy were invited to make a small film, with each director selecting ten minutes […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017, the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Embassy of Israel present the photo exhibit Return of Life – The Holocaust Survivors: from Liberation to Rehabilitation. The event includes the testimony of Rachel Mutterperl Goldfarb, Holocaust survivor, and the performance of Cantata Ebraica by Kolot HaLev, a […]
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Artists in Residence: Renato D’Agostin
The Italian Cultural Institute proudly presents 7439, a photo exhibit by Renato D’Agostin. 7439 While traveling across United States on the back of my motorcycle I had a lot of time to think, to think at all the reasons why I was doing it, how it would connect to my previous projects, my previous photographs, how […]
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Friendship, Language, and the City: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Society, present Friendship, Language, and the City: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University), in conversation with Anna Lawton (New Academia Publishing), lead a discussion on Elena Ferrante’s tetralogy about two friends growing together and drifting apart during sixty years of Italian history. MORE […]
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Bella e perduta (Lost and Beautiful)
The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC and the National Gallery of Art present the movie “Bella e perduta” by Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci. In Bella e perduta, a masked Pulcinella is summoned from the afterlife to wander through present-day Campania in search of a new home for a young buffalo, called Sarchiapone, who also narrates the film. […]
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Io, Arlecchino
The National Gallery of Art and the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E), present the movie ” Io, Arlecchino” by Matteo Bini and Giorgio Pasotti. When Paolo, a well-known TV host in Rome, returns to his hometown near Bergamo to visit his ailing father (an actor who plays the enigmatic character Harlequin, or Arlecchino, in the […]
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Resilience of Art Cities. Protecting Cultural Heritage Sites at Risk: Natural Disaster and Emergency Response in Crisis Areas – the Italian Experiences
SPEAKERS Prof. Antonio Sgamellotti Accademia dei Lincei Resilience of Art Cities to Natural Catastrophes: the Role of the Academies Dr. Fabrizia Buongiorno Director of Technology Research, Head of Space Observation Infrastructures, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) Enhancing Resilience of Historic Cities to Earthquakes Dr. Cecilia Frosinini Opificio delle pietre dure (OPD), Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Tourism (MiBACT) The […]
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