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Thursday September 25 2025 - IIC-NY 686 Park Avenue, NY. On February 6, 2026, the Olympic flame will light up Milan’s San Siro Stadium, kicking off the 25th edition of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games™.   The Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy, in collaboration with the RSI Study Center and the ...

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The Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin, who died in August at age ninety-four, announced his vocation to the world by pissing on his lens. It was the early nineteen-fifties, and he hadn’t yet left his day job in his family’s glass shop near Saint Mark’s Square, in Venice. He was on an outing with the local photography club La Gondola when d...

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  Bocelli, Vigiano, Stallone e Sorrentino: le sale cinematografiche statunitensi raccontano l'Itaila in America Con l'avvicinarsi del Columbus Day riprendono gli attacchi a Colombo Un nuovo inizio per Casa Italia a Chicago, in Illinois L'emigrazione degli scalpellini italiani nel Maine viene celebrata con una mostra fotografica a Portland New York...

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In his 30+ year career, Sante D'Orazio has captured some of the most illustrious photographs of supermodel powerhouses like Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Heidi Klum, and Naomi Campbell as well as pop culture icons like Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves, Pamela Anderson, and Janet Jackson. Now, D'Orazio will let readers into his inner world with an up-close...

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The Huntington has acquired the archive of renowned Italian-born photographer Gusmano Cesaretti, known for documenting Southern California’s Mexican American communities, Los Angeles’ urban spaces and Hollywood film sets, the institution announced Tuesday. Spanning six decades, the archive includes 238 boxes of photographic prints, negatives, conta...

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One month before the debut of the 1000 Miglia Experience USA Florida, which will bring the spirit of the Red Arrow to the southern Sunshine State from Feb. 22 to 25, the Italian Cultural Institute of Miami inaugurated yesterday, in collaboration with 1000 Miglia, the photographic exhibition “1000 Miglia tra paesaggi e borghi storici italiani,” whic...

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Oliviero Toscani, the Italian photographer famed for his provocative advertising campaigns for fashion brand Benetton, died on Monday at the age of 82. Toscani, who was diagnosed with the terminal disease amyloidosis two years ago, died in hospital at Cecina near Livorno in the central Italian region of Tuscany, his family said. The Milan photograp...

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The exhibit “Traditions and Progress: Italian Americans in Northern Indiana” continues through May 4 at The History Museum, 897 Thomas St. The exhibit features photographs, maps, artifacts and information about the history of Italian Americans in northern Indiana, a press release says. “Traditions and Progress” describes the heritage, values and wi...

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The Italian word for cowboy is “buttero” and, just like the English term, it refers to horse-riding figures who herd cattle and horses on horseback. They ride the wide Maremma -- a marshy grassland in Italy north of Rome along the western coast of Tuscany. The University of Wyoming American Heritage Center (AHC) has recently opened a photographic e...

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The “Italians in Chicago” traveling exhibit may be appearing at a public library near you in the not-too-distant future, thanks to the efforts of the volunteers at the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia. The idea for an exhibit documenting the Italian-American immigrant experience in Chicago was hatched in 1978 by Dominic Candeloro, who taught...

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