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With more than 200 pieces on display, the “Diva: Italian Glamour in Fashion Jewellery” exhibition is dedicated to elegance, creative flair, manufacturing quality and close attention to materials and workmanship, all typical characteristics of this area of undisputed Italian excellence. The exhibition can also be visited online at www.divaexhibition...

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Tue, October 12, 2021. 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM CDT. River Oaks Country Club - 1600 River Oaks Boulevard - Houston, TX 77019. Buy tickets here. Join us for the second annual Italian Cultural & Community Center Fashion Show and Luncheon. This year’s theme, “La Dolce Vita”, will celebrate Italian culture, creativity, and couture.  On October 12th, 2021, we...

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Every year, tens of thousands of international students flock to Italian shores as part of their study abroad experience. During their term in Italy, students take in the art, architecture, food — and, of course, wine. The Bel paese is unsurprisingly the most popular destination for study abroad excursions. This tradition, however, is nothing new....

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It was forecasted that “hot vax summer” in New York — when newly vaccinated young people emerged from more than a year of isolation — would herald a moment of aesthetic excess and opulence in fashion. And while some shoppers — particularly those college-aged and younger — did spring for that kind of frosted-pink-and-sequined Y2K revival, there was...

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One of my favorite things to do when I lived in Italy was to go to festivals with mamma and watch the spettacoli di marionette (marionette shows). One of the most famous marionettes (or pupo in Sicilian) is Pinocchio but there is another character born in 1958 who is just as famous today. Chi è? Who is it? His name is Topo Gigio! Topo Gigio was the...

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Michelangelo, the artist symbol of the Renaissance, is famous mainly for his work on the Sistine Chapel (ceiling and Last Judgement), and for the sculptures of La Pietà and the David. Michelangelo thought of himself primarily as a sculptor. And if you wish to delve deeper into the life and work of a genius whose art has influenced Western culture g...

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The exhibit, curated by the 2021 Italian Design Ambassador in Los Angeles Mattia Biagi, explores the iconic creations by Italian designers and design companies. Bringing Italian design and culture to a wide public has always been one of Biagi’s goals since he moved to Los Angeles 18 years ago. His aim with this show is to take the observer on a voy...

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To say that The Families of Man is a large group exhibition with which the Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta offers an unprecedented overview of Italian photography over the last twenty years would be an understatement. In fact the project, conceived and realised by Electa and curated by Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini, allows visitors no...

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Cominciamo con il definire quello che non è. Zanotta House New York non è uno showroom, non è un negozio né tantomeno un luogo tradizionale di vendita. Non è neanche un boutique apartment, che già rappresenta un’evoluzione in chiave esclusiva del concetto di esposizione. In questa costruzione di mattoni nel Lower West Side di Manhattan, al numero 2...

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This September 14 will be the 700th anniversary of the death of the greatest poet of western literature, Dante Alighieri.  The claim of Dante's position in literature is more than the assertions of an Italophile. Eric Auerbach, the author of “Mimesis,” said that there is Dante and then all others. Michael Dirda notes that in the early part of the 2...

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