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New York native Gina Viteritti is the recipient of a full-tuition scholarship from the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in partnership with Accademia Teatro all Scala, one of the most renowned institutions for training professionals in the performing arts, and Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business (MIP), an internationally re...

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Dunia Algeri Atelier crosses the Italian and American borders in a van, making its way onto the big American streets for a carefully planned tour of DPAdvertising. The extremely high quality knitwear is handcrafted using an old fashioned knitting technique that is not only a symbol of the Made in Italy brand, but also unique to the Bergamasco regio...

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Con il titolo ”New York New York” si apre domani una mostra ricca di 150 opere e divisa in due sedi, il Museo del Novecento e le Gallerie d’Italia di Intesa Sanpaolo, che, come spiega il curatore Francesco Tedeschi, indaga sui «legami con gli Stati Uniti e in particolare con l’ambiente e la città di New York che hanno dato all’arte italiana del Nov...

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Ten Italian universities have been recognized among the top 200 'young' universities world wide - with one attaining ninth place overall. According to the rankings from Times Higher Education, which judged universities under 50 years old across 48 countries, the Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa is the ninth best university in the world. "I'm very happy wit...

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Crespi d'Adda, a genuine, ideal and picturesque village, was built by the Crespi Family in the 1800s and 1900s for the employees (and their families) of the textile factory that stands right next to the village. Crespi d’Adda - described as an "exceptional example of the company town phenomenon, the most complete and best-preserved in Southern Euro...

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Villa Cicogna Mozzoni was built in 1463 as a hunting lodge of the Mozzoni family, and renovated and expanded in the third decade of the sixteenth century commissioned by the brothers Francesco and Maino Mozzoni. In the 1580s Ascanio Mozzoni tried to revive, in the settlement of the land around the villa, the many ideas learned during numerous trips...

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A new book, “Entryways of Milan,” celebrates 144 entryways all over the city.  Some embody truly historical design partnerships, from Aldo Andreani’s Palazzo Sola-Busca (1924-1930) marked by the grotesque Symbolist sculptures by Adolfo Wildt, to a 1950s limestone corridor by Gaetano Brusa embedded with the ceramicist Pietro Melandri’s dramatic bas-...

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Franciacorta, the sparkling wine DOCG from Lombardy, has made move to allow its own indigenous variety to be used in blends alongside Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Bianco. Silvano Brescianini, vice president of Franciacorta and director of Barone Pizzini winery, told Decanter.com that he expects Erbamat to be an ‘ally’ against climate change, pa...

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Dear Members and Friends, Join us at the ICCC for an evening Milan Style on Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 7:00 pm; the second edition of 2017 of our wine tasting series Come Wine with Us, which debuted in June of 2016. It will offer a selection of wines from the Northern Italian region of Lombardia, presented by Food and Wine Historian Jeremy Parzen....

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Amid the boom and revolution of Milan in 1967, artists, writers and eccentrics of all stripes fueled their creative ferment with drinks at the legendary Bar Jamaica. There, the son of a Milanese goldsmith hatched a bar-side plan for a new kind of jewelry: Aimed at the era’s freewheeling feminists, it would be expressive yet easy to wear, blending I...

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