Giovanna Ceserani e il progetto di Stanford che mappa in digitale i diari dei viaggiatori del Grand Tour, con un tocco di Politecnico Milano
Pisana, laureata all’Università di Bologna, PhD a Cambridge e oggi Associate Professor al Dipartimento Studi Classici della Stanford University, Giovanna Ceserani è tra gli artefici di un inedito progetto di Digital Humanities: tecnologia digitale al servizio degli studi umanistici. Mapping the Grand Tour è un’elaborazione visuale dell’enorme mole...
Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio Meets the Italian Communities in the Bay Area
Italian Ambassador, Armando Varricchio, visited the Bay Area in May, for the second time since he presented his credentials as Italy’s ambassador to the United States last year. During his five days in California, Ambassador Varricchio managed to meet and talk to some expats who represent Italy’s best talents in America. He took some time to visit...
The Sicilian Cart: History in Movement. An exhibition dedicated to the tradition and symbolism of the Sicilian Cart
The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA) is pleased to announce The Sicilian Cart: History in Movement (June 30 – January 7, 2018) an exhibition dedicated to the tradition and symbol of Sicilian folklore known worldwide. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean. Its strategic geographic position—the crossroads between the Middle...
A Los Angeles startup italiane alla Festa Nazionale tra arte, tecnologia e social media
L’anniversario della Repubblica è stato celebrato a Los Angeles nella cornice istituzionale dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura. “La Repubblica Italiana” - ha sottolineato il Console Generale Antonio Verde - “si fonda saldamente su valori universali di libertà, giustizia, uguaglianza e rispetto dei diritti umani, prezioso contributo di sviluppo e pac...
Santa Barbara Chalks Up Another Artful I Madonnari Street Painting Festival
The hands caught the attention of those walking by the front of the Santa Barbara Mission. The artist, barefoot and covered head to toe in chalk, bounced her head to the music from her ear buds and swiped soft hues along the pavement canvas. She scanned a reference image and lifted her head to view the result, then rubbed in the pastel chalk with h...
L'ombra di Chaplin
“A Rosciolo dei Marsi, piccola frazione di Magliano dei Marsi (AQ) adagiata ai piedi del Monte Velino, in Abruzzo, sono ancora in molti a ricordare il suo nome italiano: Vincenzo Pelliccione. Quello d’arte, invece, è finito nelle nebbie del tempo, assieme al grande talento a cui è associato. Nato il 2 giugno del 1893 da Sebastiano e Carolina Marini...
Emilio Cavallini: Harmony Runs on a Thread - June 6 at 6:30 PM at the IIC
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 6:30 pm. Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024. Curated by Peter Frank; Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles on the occasion of the Los Angeles Design Festival. RSVP mandatory HERE Harmony Runs on a Thread retraces Cavallini's path from the mid-sixties when, inspired b...
Folsom Lake Symphony’s ‘Festa Italiana’ a feast for the musical soul
In Italian “festa” simply translates as “festival.” But in actuality an Italian festa is so much more. Within the culture it celebrates the life of a Christian saint. The faithful joyfully attend Mass. Homes and plazas sport decorations. Traditional foods, with recipes handed down for generations, comfort the body as well as the soul. Small wonder...
Anthony V. Salvo, 47th mayor of Salem, dead at 89
Anthony V. Salvo, a longtime local teacher turned Salem mayor, died Monday at Salem Hospital following a brief illness. He was 89. “Always a gentleman, Mayor Salvo loved Salem with a spirit of dedication that few could match,” wrote Mayor Kim Driscoll of her predecessor twice removed in a Facebook post Monday. “His tireless efforts, both in public...
I Madonnari Street Painting Festival Returns to Santa Barbara Mission This Weekend
I Madonnari is coming back to the Santa Barbara Mission this weekend, when street painters will decorate the plaza using pastels on pavement, creating about 150 bold and vibrant, large-scale art pieces. The local I Madonnari Italian street painting festival will celebrate its 31st anniversary this year, having brought this tradition from the romant...
"Vivere alla Castiglioni" Exhibition at San Francisco Design Week 2017
For the fist time in the United States, the exhibition "Vivere alla Castiglioni" pays tribute to Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, undisputed Italian masters of twentieth-century design. Achille's daughter and son, Giovanna and Carlo Castiglioni, will visit San Francisco during San Francisco Design Week as representatives of the Fondazione Cast...
I Madonnari Italian Hits Pavement May 27-29
The I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival will celebrate its 31st anniversary 10 a.m.-6 p.m. May 27, 28 and 29 at the Santa Barbara Mission. A ceremony at noon on Monday, May 29, on the Mission steps will introduce and thank the major festival sponsors and featured artist Meredith Morin as her street painting is concluded. I Madonnari, the f...