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Situated midway between Africa and Europe, Sicily is an island of extremes. Earthquake tremors, incandescent volcanos, and three sparkling seas vie for supremacy over its rugged terrain, a testament to the indomitable force of nature and our impotence in its shadow. Look beyond Sicily’s staggering landscape, look closer, and you’ll come across a mo...

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Franco Rubini put his hands over his ears in order to describe his experience at Sunday’s NASCAR event in Richmond. “Very loud!” he said. “Good people watching.” Rubini, a photographer from Este, a northern Italian town that is one of Fredericksburg’s sister cities, is spending most of April in the Fredericksburg area hoping to experience and captu...

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Imagine you’re on holiday in Italy. It’s a summer’s afternoon, and the intense blue of the sky contrasts beautifully with the off-white tones of your apartment’s walls, which you can just glimpse as you peep through the branches of the olive tree under which you’re sitting. As the sun dips lower, the sky changes colour–from piercing, pure turquoise...

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Starts on Thursday, March 30 · 6pm EDT. Italian Cultural Institute @ Embassy of Italy 3000 Whitehaven St, NW Washington, DC 20008. RSVP required, here. The Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C. and the Italian Cultural Institute invite you to attend the inauguration of "Massimo Listri: Italian Wonder", extraordinary photographic exhibition by world f...

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Legendary Chicago artist Tom Palazzolo’s decades-long career includes photography, painting and most famously experimental filmmaking. Rare Nest Gallery in Chicago will present an overview of his work, complete with film excerpts, historic images and a Q&A with Palazzolo, at 8:30 p.m. on March 11. Reservations are required. (708-616-8671) For more...

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NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò presents: Made in Italy | Sold in America - Fashion in Attenzione Magazine, 1979-1987. An exhibition of historical magazines, including fashion from the NYU Costume Studies MA Study Collection. Curated by Marcella Martin - PhD Candidate, Department of Italian Studies, NYU. Opening with panel discussion: Thursday, Ma...

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When: From March 9 to May 15, 2023 from Monday through Friday from 10AM to4PM - A unique exhibition dedicated to women, as seen by four generations of Italian photographers. Photography is not only a way of representing reality, but also of painting and reinventing it. The important Tommasoli photographic archive shows us women’s metamorphosis over...

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Glamour, with its qualities of mystery, realism and discretion, is notoriously difficult to define, but the photographs of 97-year-old Paolo Di Paolo provide definitive visual clues. For 14 years through the 50s and 60s, he photographed post-war Italy as it was, an agrarian society racing toward industrialisation. Di Paolo’s reportage, of luminous...

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Shown at the American Academy in Rome, Iwan Baan’s images are presented simply; there are large, blown-up depictions of aerial-view cityscapes and hoards of tourists at famous landmarks. The architectural photography exhibition, ‘From Las Vegas to Rome’ is layered and enticing, and offers candid frames and fascinating vistas that reveal a dialogue...

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A history project is in the works about early Italian settlers (1880-1950) in the Pacific Northwest, specifically Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Please reach out to author and historian, Tessa Floreano with stories and original high-resolution photos to be considered for publication in either the book or website. The book, Italians in the Pacific N...

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