Nobel per l'economia nel 1985, morto a Cambridge nel 2003, Franco Modigliani sarà ricordato a Boston il prossimo 9 aprile con un evento promosso in suo onore dal Mit. Organizzato nell'ambito del 2013 – Anno della Cultura italiana negli Usa, in collaborazione con il Consolato generale d'Italia a Boston, l'associazione Professionisti Italiani a Bost...

One of Piero della Francesca's most remarkable masterpieces is brought to the U.S. thanks to the collaboration with the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, which works relentlessly to retrieve Italian masterpieces stolen or illicitly removed from the country September 13, 2013 - January 6, 2014 - Boston, MFAJanuary - March 2014 -...

September 15, 2013 - Chicago, Lyric Opera Theater, Italian Cultural Institute   On the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Chicago Opera Theater presents Giovanna d'Arco (1845). It is a bold and vivid portrayal of the iconic Joan of Arc, a woman sacrificing everything in fighting for her beliefs and her...

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...

by Silvia Simonetti   Among the initiatives celebrating 2013, Year of the Italian Culture in the United States, the residence of Consul General of Italy Giuseppe Perrone has recently become La Casa all'Italiana in Los Angeles, hosting gorgeous design works by Italian renowned artist Gio Ponti.   Since June 20 and for a whole week, Pon...

The Role of Medicine at the Court of the Medici Grand Dukes September 18, 2013 - Washington DC - Embassy of Italy A lecture by Sheila Barker   Medici, the name of the family that ruled Tuscany for two hundred years, means 'doctors.' This curious fact, however, is only the beginning of the epic story of this Italian court's role i...

Italian-American organizations in Metropolitan Detroit will be celebrating "The Year of Italian Culture in the United States 2013" this October with an exhibition on a nineteenth-century Italian artist who left an impressive mark on the State of Michigan. "Artist & Muses: Tommaso Juglaris and the Italian Legacy at Michigan's State Capitol," fea...

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...

Marzo è stato un mese importante per la tecnologia made in Italy in Silicon Valley. In occasione delle celebrazioni del "2013, anno italiano della cultura e innovazione italiana in USA" si sono susseguiti una serie di eventi a San Francisco e in Silicon Valley per ricordare che l'Italia non è solo sinonimo di moda, cibo e vino (oltre che dei posti...

Fabrizio Nava's first visit to Tulsa to coincided with the much-ballyhooed opening of the Woody Guthrie Center in the Brady Arts District. But Nava, the consul general of Italy in Houston, was in town for a different sort of celebration. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., have designated 2013 as...