Massimiliano Gatti's first American exhibition.   Gatti's photographs explore the history of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the immigration from North Africa coasts to Europe, not by reportage, but by a careful, poetic, archeological description that transforms artifacts into metaphor.   Read more   Source: h...

Date: Monday, October 05, 2015 Hours: 6:30 PM Venue: IIC Los Angeles Jazz concert featuring Giovanni Tommaso (double bass), Professor of Jazz at the Conservatory in Perugia and director of the Umbria Jazz Clinics seminars since 1986. Tommaso has collaborated with many great Italian and international musicians such as Riccardo Cocciante, Mina, Gi...

Chi non ricorda, forse con un pizzico di nostalgia, la storica pubblicità di Lavazza in cui Nino Manfredi portava la tazzina alle labbra e recitava: "Il caffè è un piacere: se non è buono, che piacere è?"   Si è aperta proprio con una carrellata di immagini tratte dai suoi migliori film e dagli spot televisivi, frutto di una collaborazione t...

The wild popularity of comedic duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer from 1970's "They Call Me Trinity" transformed the traditionally violent Spaghetti Western genre into G-rated slapstick parodies.   With the demise of the once gritty, hard-hitting, and often excessive, violence from Italian westerns, filmmakers found a new home for gunfights an...

Acting workshop with Director Fernando J. Scarpa January 29- March 19Tue, 6-9 PMItalian Cultural Institute1023 Hilgard Ave Los Angeles, CA 90024 Award-winning Italian director Fernando J. Scarpa has worked in numerous plays, movies and TV productions throughout Europe and the U.S. He successfully teaches courses at UCLA Extension and produces and...

On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth, the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, Master Films Productions and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cordially invite you to a special screening of DANTE'S INFERNO and DANTE'S HELL ANIMATED by Boris Acosta Tuesday, February 10, 2015* ,&...

L'arte italiana a Los Angeles diventa 2.0. Il merito e' di una nuova applicazione, "Italy Art LA" e del relativo sito web (www.italyartla.com), che permetteranno agli utenti di scoprire l'arte italiana nella citta' californiana grazie a un sistema basato sulla geolocalizzazione e attraverso una varieta' di strumenti, quali una piantina personalizza...

Andrea Marcelli e il suo trio hanno debuttato al Watts Tower Arts Center il 30 Settembre scorso. La cornice, quella del Drum and Jazz Festival, che si tiene ogni anno durante l'ultimo fine settimana di settembre. In una caldissima due giorni, sotto un grande tendone bianco, pubblico e musicisti si riuniscono al suono di musica jazz, blues e gospel,...

by Silvia Simonetti   An invitation to see Romeo & Juliet - even if for the hundredth time - can never be refused. In fact, the version staged by Italian director and actor Fernando J. Scarpa at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles on March 27 sold out incredibly fast.   What does make the world's most famous love story s...

On the occasion of A Traveling Archive, the exhibition on view thru July 31st dedicated to the great designer Vico Magistretti, join the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with Fondazione Italia, for an afternoon of fun, hands-on creativity and playful exploration of the world of design.   Silvia Rigon, an Italian artist and creativ...