Carlos Museum Celebrates Year of Italian Culture
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced 2013 as the "Year of Italian Culture" in the United States. Atlanta arts institutions have joined in the celebration and will host events throughout the Fall that highlight everything from Italian music to Renaissance and Baroque images of Rome to Italy's best exports, wine and design. Harmonie Univ...
Sarasota County Commission candidate: Paul Caragiulo
Paul Caragiulo sometimes thinks it is a little improbable that he ever wound up in public office. There is so much about politics that he doesn't like. He has been seen lingering in the Sarasota City Commission chambers, after everyone else has left a meeting, fuming at how a public policy debate became derailed by personal arguments. He could ha...
30th Annual Food Festival
The Italian American Civic Association of Vero Beach will be hosting its 30th Annual Food Festival on Friday, Feb. 27, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 28, 11a.m. - 9 p.m., and Sunday, March 1, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Freshly prepared traditional Italian dishes will be offered at family friendly prices. Live entertainment includes the Tarantella...
Annual Reunion Exhibition, Closing Ceremony & Reception Jan. 21, 2017
Following an annual tradition that has continued for forty-seven years, Cortona program alumni will gather for a reunion on January 21, 2017 in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. Student & faculty works produced in Cortona during the 2016 Spring, Summer, and Fall programs will be on display in the Dodd...
Spoleto Festival USA offers largest program for 37th season; performances to start Friday
From comic book art to Shakespeare and Japanese opera, the new season of the Spoleto Festival USA will be the largest ever, offering 160 performances during the 17 days the festival lights up stages across this seaside city. The internationally known arts festival, founded by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, will open its 37th season Frida...
Rebirth of Rome. Echoes and origins: interwar italian design
For its fall 2013 exhibition season, on the occasion of the Year of Italian culture in the US, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents a program of independent though interrelated exhibitions, entitled Rebirth of Rome, that examine the aesthetics of dictatorship in interwar Italy September 27, 2013 (opening) - Miami Beach -&n...
Festa Italiana returns to Ybor City
The 17th Annual Festa Italiana Weekend presented by Marathon will take place in the historic Ybor City district from Thursday, April 3 to Sunday, April 6, 2014. The multi-day celebration will honor Italian culture and heritage by showcasing the finest cuisine from the Tampa Bay area's top restaurants and catering companies, exciting entert...
2nd annual Italian Fest in Downtown Boca
Saturday, February 25th 2017, 4-10 pm. Sanborn Square Park, 72 N. Federal Highway - Boca Raton, FL 33432. Tickets: www.downtownboca.org: THAT'S AMORE! Get ready for the 2nd Annual Italian Fest in Downtown Boca... Due to the overwhelming popularity of last year's event, this Italian Fest will be bigger and better. The festiva...
Celebrating the New Museum and Francesco Vezzoli at Art Basel Miami Beach
by Mark Guiducci The one trend curators and dealers seem to agree on this year at Art Basel Miami Beach is the welcome surfeit of pioneering female artists. At the convention center, Pace's all-female booth is anchored by Louise Nevelson's monochromatic black sculptures, while across the causeway the Rubell Family Collection is pr...
Join Friends of the Uffizi Gallery at Conde Contemporary Art Gallery in Coral Gables, Florida
Join Friends of the Uffizi Gallery at Conde Contemporary Art Gallery in Coral Gables, Florida for a Reception and Short Presentation- Saturday, June 25, 2016: The Valois Tapestries, Friends of the Uffizi Gallery's Current Restoration Project Eight sixteenth-century tapestries, collectively known as The Valois...
Through the eyes of a child: my Italian village
[This is the first of a series of columns that explores the world of adults from the eyes of a child] I was raised in an Italian village surrounded by four generations of loving and colorful relatives. I remember well our daily life. Grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, fourteen cousins and family friends always seemed right there...
Theater, dance, music highlight 41st Spoleto Festival USA
By Susanne M. Schafer Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky's sumptuous opera "Eugene Onegin," a concert by jazz master Dee Dee Bridgewater and performance by flamenco dance star Maria Pages are just a few of the many highlights promised in this spring's 2017 Spoleto Festival USA. The internationally renowned Charleston, South Carolin...