Unexpected Italian itineraries: Valle D'Aosta

The parks and forts of the lower valley

November 2013

Personalized destinations to bring tourism to lesser known areas in Italy. Section within the YEAR website dedicated to tourism with itineraries that present ‘another’ Italy through tours connected to Italian Historical and Architectural sites and touristic routes off the beaten track, offered by FAI (Italian National Trust), Touring Club Italiano and Società Dante Alighieri-I Parchi Letterari®, an institution that promotes the Italian cultural heritage through initiatives and projects linked to Italian territories

Unexpected Italian itineraries: Molise

The bells of Agnone

November 2013

Personalized destinations to bring tourism to lesser known areas in Italy. Section within the YEAR website dedicated to tourism with itineraries that present ‘another’ Italy through tours connected to Italian Historical and Architectural sites and touristic routes off the beaten track, offered by FAI (Italian National Trust), Touring Club Italiano and Società Dante Alighieri-I Parchi Letterari®, an institution that promotes the Italian cultural heritage through initiatives and projects linked to Italian territories

Unexpected Italian itineraries: Campania

Naples beyond stereotype

November 2013

Personalized destinations to bring tourism to lesser known areas in Italy. Section within the YEAR website dedicated to tourism with itineraries that present ‘another’ Italy through tours connected to Italian Historical and Architectural sites and touristic routes off the beaten track, offered by FAI (Italian National Trust), Touring Club Italiano and Società Dante Alighieri-I Parchi Letterari®, an institution that promotes the Italian cultural heritage through initiatives and projects linked to Italian territories

Destination Bergamo

On the occasion of the Year of Italian Culture in the US the City of Bergamo will be present with an original exhibition dedicated to the explorer Costantino Beltrami (1779-1855), from Bergamo, who discovered the source of Mississippi river.

April - December 2013

Washington DC, New York

Machiavelli, Machiavellism and European Political Landscape

On the 500 years anniversary of “The Prince” by Machiavelli, the Italian Consulate General in Boston and Emmanuel College will organize a series of seminars dedicated to the Italian politician, philosopher diplomat and thinker and his influence as a Renaissance humanist in the European political landscape of the past and of today

November 7, 2013

Boston

Library Lecture Hall, Emmanuel College 

Professor Maurizio Viroli from Princeton University will be one of the speakers at the seminar on at the Emmanuel College entitled “The Prince and the Redeemer”.

According to Professor Viroli, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince to design and invoke a redeemer of Italy capable of creating, with God’s help, new and good political orders thereby attaining perennial glory. The meaning of Machiavelli’s most famous or infamous work – the meaning in the sense of what Machiavelli intended above all to teach - is to be found in the last chapter, the ‘Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians’ where he creates with a stroke of political imagination of the finest kind, the myth of the redeemer. This myth sheds the right light on the entire work, and above all on the most controversial themes of The Prince: political ethics, the virtues of the prince, military matters, the role of fortune and God on political affairs. An oration on the redeemer, this is what the Prince is.

The interpretation of the Prince as an oration on the redeemer sheds a different light on yet another much debated issue in the Machiavellian scholarship, namely the compatibility of The Prince and the Discourses. A founder and a redeemer is necessary both for republics and kingdoms. In both cases they must have extraordinary authority, display exactly the same virtues and face the necessity of entering in evil. Machiavelli’s Prince is indeed the “book of republicans”. Not in the sense that it reveals the horrible vices of the prince and instills in the readers the hatred for monarchy, as Rousseau believed, but in the sense that it delineates the image of the founder and redeemer that republican political theory needs. Unless we are prepared to believe that good republics come into existence, remain alive, and are reformed, when they need to be, only through the wisdom and the active participation of the citizens, we must accept the view that republics need great political leaders. The Prince is about great political leadership, the leadership of founders and redeemers. Hence, it is not a problematic alternative to the Discourses, but a fine integration to it. Together they make a fine theory of political emancipation.

University for Foreigners of Perugia

Fifty monthly scholarships to American students for courses of Italian language and culture

January - December 2013

Perugia

ISSNAF Award for the Humanities

Prizes for under 40 Italian researchers in North America in the fields of Social History, Intellectual History, Art in connection with the relationships Italy-North America. Winners receive the Medaglia di Rappresentanza of the President of the Italian Republic and a publication contract.

November, 2013

New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company "Sleeping Beauty"

A puppet adaptation of Perrault’s fairy tale with the music by Tchaikovsky 

October 30 - November 10, 2013
November 13 - 17, 2013

New York
Boston, Paramount Center Mainstage

The Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company/Grupporiani Association is organising a tour in some of the main cities of the United States in order to promote the Italian culture through one of the most interesting examples of theatrical expression, typical of our tradition. The artistic project refers to the tale of "Sleeping Beauty" with Tchaikovsky's music, one of our most successful plays.

The Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company has been working for more than two centuries in the theatrical field and is actually one of the oldest groups still in activity.

As the company declares:

"The aim of the USA tour is not only to present one of the most significant plays oftheir repertoire but also to advance the knowledge of a theatrical tradition dating back to more than two centuries ago. This tradition has been, and is still today, an expression of the Italian culture and of the historical and social development of our country. Its progression alongside two hundred years of Italian history combines the theatrical component and the handmade work, whose specific techniques are now used in our laboratories (sculpture, carpentry, tailoring, scenography, hairdressing, etc.) for the productions of the new shows and are themselves part of the Immaterial Cultural Heritage.

Why “Sleeping Beauty"? Because of our attachment to fairy tales, those told in books and those that are inside each one of us, where time and space do not exist, where good and evil are determined and circumscribed, not fluctuating and inscrutable as in real life; and where harmony always triumphs. Besides, we want to visually celebrate a literary genre that was created for adults and over time was unfairly restricted to the world of infancy for an erroneous and widespread conviction that confuses the taste for "narration" with the fantastic appeal to children's imagination.

The choice of "Sleeping Beauty" echoes one of the most significant features of our program: the fact that it is directed to audiences of all ages, from young to adult and even to elderly people. At the same time, it shows that our repertoire blends together 19th century themes and stories staged in recent years with equal dignity, communicative ability, and expressiveness."

International symposium (at the Columbia University) and exhibition on Niccolò Machiavelli: "The Prince and his Time on the 500th Anniversary of the Masterpiece of Modern Political Science"

October – November 2013

New York

Galileo Galilei Event

Fall 2013

Boston

Cambridge, Harvard University

The discovery and study of sunspots by Galileo Galilei, father of Modern Science, comprise the theme of the Conference “Galielo and the Sunspots” dedicated to the Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician, organized by the Galileo Museum of Florence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Harvard University, and the National Institute of Astrophysics, with the involvement of NASA. The conference has been made possible thanks to the generous contribution of the Trevi Group, and by the American controlled TreviIcos.

A two day international symposium is dedicated to Galileo Galilei and his sunspot studies, product of the collaboration between the Galileo Museum of Florence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Institute of Astrophysics and Harvard University, where the conference will be held.

Starting from the work Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti, written by Galielo in 1613, of which the 400^th anniversary recurs, the history and present day research in the field of sunspots will be analyzed.

Exceptional speakers will participate. On inaugural day afternoon Prof. Giovanni Bignami, Director of the Italian observatory net of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and Owen Gingerich, professor of astronomy at Harvard University will lecture. The entire following day will be dedicated to the importance of the Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti and in the afternoon, four Italian and North American researchers will illustrate their current research on sunspots and their future outlooks and uses in the fields of energy and telecommunications.

Gran Fondo Giro d’Italia Series

The Gran Fondo Giro d’Italia Series brings to America the ultimate expertise in productions of a true “Italian” cycling experience. Gran Fondos are long distance, mass-participation cycling events – not races – that are immensely popular in Italy, open to recreational and competitive amateur cyclists

May 5, New York
June 2, Pasadena
November 10, Miami

New York, Pasadena, Miami

Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia is a worldwide series organized by RCS Sport, owner of high-quality sporting events including the Giro d’Italia, Milano – Sanremo, Il Lombardia (ex Giro di Lombardia), Tirreno – Adriatico, Strade Bianche by Limar (White Roads); the Milano City Marathon; Italian Open; advisor to the national Soccer Team, and to the Inter Football Club; advisor of the Basketball Italian Federation and organizer of major events of the Lega Basket “Serie A”; in collaboration with the SDA Bocconi School of Management, RCS is also organizer of the Sport Business Academy. The Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia aims to connect cycling fans to the mystique of the Giro, hence growing the appreciation of Giro d'Italia in the world.

Gran Fondo Giro d’Italia events are characterized by breathtaking scenic courses, timed climbs and trail challenges that impart an atmosphere typically reserved for professional races, all in a fun “Italian style” environment that brings out the best of this sport. They also include a consumer expo, well-stocked aid stations, mobile tech support, and a festive pasta party.

Event website: www.gfgiro.com

Scholarships – Fulbright BEST

Fulbright scholarships dedicated to the Year Italia-USA 2013

January - December 2013

New York

Fulbright-BEST Program

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Fulbright-BEST (Business Exchange and Student Training) is a program which was promoted by the Embassy of the United States in 2006 as a Fulbright Program spin-off. It is aimed at stimulating the spirit of entrepreneurship as well as boosting economic growth in Italy.

The Fulbright Commission runs the Fulbright-BEST Program together with the Institute of International Education, a New York-based Agency which, on behalf of the American Government, cooperates with both the Fulbright Commission and the Fulbright Foundation all over the world in handling the competition procedures reserved for both undergraduate and graduate candidates.
Primary private companies contribute to this program with their generous financial support together with the Fulbright-BEST Steering Committee which carries out fundraising activities and supports scholarship holders upon their return to Italy in order to facilitate the fulfilment of their business projects.

The Fulbright-BEST grants offer the possibility of attending Certificate/ Diploma/ Master/ MBA Programs in Entrepreneurship  with an academic training within companies in the United States.

The objective of the program is to offer Italian junior scholars and businessmen, willing to share an innovative project of technological transfer, the opportunity to be given a training in business management in American Universities. The training program includes an internship in a USA company, with the purpose of acquiring the skills which are indispensable to create one’s own start-up. This target has a great relevance in the program alongside the objective aimed at creating a company in Italy as a result of the American experience.

The ideal candidates are B.A holders (with the former academic system or holding a four year course degree), Ph.D. students in Italy or Ph.D. holders who completed their academic degree in Italy not earlier than five years before the competition deadline. Scientific and technological degrees come first. The scholarship includes a $35.000 grant to cover academic fees and living costs, and a 1.500 euro travel allowance  to cover roundtrip travel expenses between Italy and the United States.

ISSNAF – Mentorship Lectures

Lectures by distinguished personalities addressed to young researchers

March 14, 2013
April, 2013
May, 2013
October 28-29, 2013
November 11, 2013
 

Academic Institutions in the Unites States

Conducted by renowned Italian researchers and scholars working in North America, ISSNAF Mentorship Lectures are primarily targeted to younger researchers to share the personal and professional experience of great Italian talents.
Lectures for 2013:
Pietro de Camilli: Yale University School of Medicine, March 14
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli: Caltech, April
Mario Strazzabosco: Seattle, May
Riccardo Giacconi: Washington DC, October 28
Camillo Ricordi: Washington DC, October 29
Napoleone Ferrara: Cernobbio, November 11

Young ISSNAF - the largest network of academics and researchers Italian under 40 in North America - organizes lectures whose purpose is to allow more junior researchers in Italy and North America to share the personal and professional experience of great Italian talents. Mentorship Lectures are a keystone of the wider Young ISSNAF Mentorship Program.

Following the notable lectures held in 2012 by Prof. Mauro Ferrari (Methodist, Houston) and Professor Guido Calabresi (Yale), in 2013 ten lectures will be held by the most famous protagonists of the Italian academic and scientific research in North America.

The events will be hosted by the most prestigious academic institutions in the United States or Italian cultural and diplomatic venues.
The recordings of the events will be posted on www.issnaf.org

ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation) is a 501c(3) not-for- profit organisation whose mission is to promote scientific, academic and technological cooperation amongst Italian researchers and scholars active in North America and the world of research in Italy.
The Foundation serves as a bridge across the Atlantic, promoteing and encouraging the bi-lateral flow of knowledge and skills.

More information about the Foundation can be found visiting www.issnaf.org

New Silk Roads

An exhibit on the most innovative and technological use and transformation of silk. Objects, documents and images on display together with a documentary video

Fall 2013

Washington DC

An exhibition of the use and the high tech transformation of silk illustrates the results of joint Italy-USA research that are of fundamental interest for the entire scientific community given the biocompatible, biodegradable, and versatile uses of a material that has been consistently rediscovered and reinvented for over 5000 years.

Silk is one of those products that unites cultures across countries and continents and joins ancient traditions with futuristic technologies. Over 5000 years ago, China was first to extract silk from the Bombyx Mori cocoon and adapt it for use in textiles. The material became so popular that the commercial exchange between Asia and Europe took on the name of silk route, making it perhaps the world’s first globalized product.

Today, the rediscovery of silk ties Bombyx Mori larvae to high advanced film of translucent materials, creating holograms that can be adapted for dozens of different uses tied in high tech, scientific instruments, medicine, and research. This metamorphosis has been made possible by a collaboration between U.S. and Italian scientists Fiorenzo Omenetto and David Kaplan.

The event presents different aspects of the transformation of silk through a photography book describing the transformation process from simple fiber into high tech product. The objects in the book such as bones, cups, flexibleelectronic implants, and holograms are displayed for public view. The initiative includes a documentary that narrates the history of the itinerary taken by men and nations with a material that 5000 years after its discovery is still being reinvented with wondrous results.

Unesco. Italia

Photographic exhibition on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy.

Miami, Main Library Auditorium - June 22 - August 7, 2013
Joplin (MO), University of Southern Missouri - August 15 - September 7, 2013
Reno (NV), arte Italia - September 26 – November 24, 2013
San Francisco, The Italian American Museum - December 5, 2013 - January 26, 2014

Miami, Joplin (MO), Reno (NV), San Francisco

An itinerant exhibition, with 150 works by renowned photographers and images from famous films shot on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. The exhibition aims at showcasing Italy’s 47 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. 

Italy is the country with the most properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. Internationally it therefore plays an important role in managing this artistic-cultural heritage and helps emerging countries to protect their own sites, and to prepare the necessary documentation for these to be inscribed on the UNESCO list.

This exhibition illustrates Italy’s experience in preparing and managing the plans for its exceptional 47 sites. It consists in 150 fine works, both from a cultural and artistic point of view, by renowned photographers and aims at presenting Italy’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in a modern and vibrant fashion.  

Photographers include some of the most notable Italian contemporary artists: Barbieri, Basilico, Berengo Gardin, Caltagirone, Campigotto, Coletti, Guerrieri, Fossati, Jodice, Leone, Lesimple, Mariniello, Romano and Scianna. Italy is photographed in its length and breadth, from landscapes and venues to archaeological and historical sites, not forgetting the islands.

The exhibition also includes a short film made from scenes of films shot on the above-mentioned sites, which serves as a running scenery. Photos and videos accompany visitors in a journey of discovery of Italy against the beautiful backdrop of scenic photos. 

Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting

The exhibition presents the evolution of thematic and stylistic developments in Italian art from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century through a collection of unique works by great Italian masters from the Glasgow Museum

22 August - 17 November 2013.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Arts

The exhibition presents the evolution of thematic and stylistic developments in Italian art from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century through a collection of unique works by great Italian masters from the Glasgow Museum. The exhibition, organized by the American Federation of Arts and Glasgow Museums, makes its debut at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art then will tour several North American Museums and Galleries until 2015.

With works by some of the greatest names in European art, Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums will examine the thematic and stylistic developments in Italian art—from the religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to the secular neoclassical and genre paintings of the nineteenth century. The remarkable regional and historical breadth of the exhibition will also showcase the outstanding quality of Glasgow Museums’ collection.

 Organized into five chronological sections, Of Heaven and Earth will include paintings originating from the principal artistic centers of Italy—Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Siena, Naples, and Venice—and will present the works of artists such as Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Domenichino, Francesco Guardi, Salvator Rosa, and Titian alongside those of lesser-known masters. Many of these works are being conserved specifically in anticipation of this tour. The exhibition will highlight significant new research and discoveries relating to attribution, dates, provenance, infrared analysis, and the reconstruction of fragmented altarpieces.

The accompanying catalogue will feature essays on Glasgow’s collections and the museum’s Italian paintings by Guest Curator Peter Humfrey, an internationally renowned specialist in Italian art history recently retired from teaching at the University of St. Andrews.

The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and Glasgow Museums. The project has been supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Cress Foundation. In-kind support is provided by Barbara and Richard S. Lane

Exhibition itinerary: Oklahoma City Museum of Art (August 22–November 17, 2013); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (December 13, 2013–March 9, 2014); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (April 17–July 13, 2014); Milwaukee Art Museum (October 1, 2014–January 4, 2015); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (February 6, 2015–May 3, 2015); and one additional venue to be determined.

Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome

The Carlos Museum is presenting an extraordinary journey to Rome through an exciting exhibition on the representations of the Eternal City. Maps, views, and books on Rome by great masters of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries offer a unique experience of the city

August 24 - November 17, 2013

Atlanta

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

The Carlos Museum is presenting an extraordinary journey to Rome through an exciting exhibition on the representations of the Eternal City. Maps, views, and books on Rome by great masters of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries offer a unique experience of the city.
Over 130 works of art will be showcased in three major sections—Antichità, Teatro, and Magnificenza. Antichità includes the Antiquae urbis imago, Pirro Ligorio’s 1561 reconstruction of the ancient city, as the focal point of antiquarian interests during the Italian Renaissance of the sixteenth-century.

Antiquarians of the Renaissance were humanist scholars who sought to reconstruct Rome as it was in antiquity. The images show monuments that have been restored, healed of the ravages of time.

The Teatro of the seventeenth-century, the second section of the exhibition, is anchored by an impression of Giovanni Battista Falda’s 1676 Nuova pianta. Through his spectacular map and many detailed views, Falda shows us modern Rome as rebuilt by the popes.

The Magnificenza of the eighteenth-century includes Giovanni Battista Nolli’s Pianta grande and Giuseppe Vasi’s Prospetto dell’alma città di Roma. In this section of the exhibition there are three types of representations by three designers. Nolli’s map is an example of the rational, scientific thinking of the Enlightenment. Vasi makes an encyclopedic collection of views of Rome. Giovanni Battista Piranesi takes an archaeological interest in the city, creating strikingly dramatic, imaginative views of the ancient monuments.

The exhibition presents exquisite architectural details, cartographic accuracy, pictorial beauty, and bold representations of Rome.

More info on: http://www.carlos.emory.edu/content/renaissance-and-baroque-images-rome

Conference on Giacomo Leopardi

In collaboration with the Publishing Company Farrar, Straus and Giroux which curated the translation of Leopardi's Zibaldone

November 2013

New York, Italian Cultural Institute

Seminar on Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone

To reflect on the originality of thought in Leopardi’s body of work, conference attendees will address the philosophical, political, religious, environmental, and social aspects of Leopardi’s ideas through a complete English translation of Zibaldone, his famous and prodigious collection of notes, literary criticisms, and reflections. The translation, which will be carried out by a team of translators, will be published in 2013 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, one of the most prestigious publishing houses in North America.

Homage to Italian musical Oscars

November, 22 2013

Ucla, Royce Hall, Los Angeles

The Orchestra Italiana del Cinema (40 musicians, director: Maestro Daniele Belardinelli) presents a tribute to Italian cinema, performing music from Italian films that have been awarded the industry’s most prestigious prize, the Oscar®.

The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored Italian cinema since very early in its history, with Sciuscià by Vittorio de Sica winning the very first award for a foreign language film. Italy continues to be the top Oscar-winning country for Best Foreign Language Film.
The concert will celebrate this continuing tradition of cultural exchange showcasing decades of soundtracks from the 1940s to the present day.
Featured composers will include legends such as ALESSANDRO CICOGNINI, regular composer for the films of Vittorio De Sica including Sciuscià [Shoe-Shine] and Ladri di Biciclette [Bicycle Thieves] and NINO ROTA, composer for a number of Federico Fellini’s films, including La Strada, 8 1/2, Le notti di Cabiria [Nights of Cabiria] and Amarcord.

The Orchestra Italiana del Cinema performance is a multimedia concert, where the evocative music is accompanied by high-definition projections, creating a unique synesthetic event. Audiences are captivated by a selection of music chosen from among the most beautiful original scores in the history of cinema and surrounded by a multimedia fresco of projected images and graphics.

Rebirth of Rome. The Birth of Rome

For its fall 2013 exhibition season, on the occasion of the Year of Italian culture in the US, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents a program of independent though interrelated exhibitions, entitled Rebirth of Rome, that examine the aesthetics of dictatorship in interwar Italy

November 22, 2013 (opening)

Miami Beach

The Wolfsonian–FIU

Each exhibition addresses responses to the challenges of modernity, as seen in the over 200 objects of public works, mural paintings, architecture, design, and decorative arts in Italy in the 1920s and 1930s, drawn from The Wolfsonian’s collection, with loans from the museum’s founder, Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., and from Marcello Cambi and the Wolfsoniana in Genoa. The sum of the exhibitions comprises a portrait of Italy in the modern age, highlighting the dialogue between politics and aesthetics that largely defined its self-representation during this critical period of its history.

A presentation of modern architectural and urban planning projects that cultivated the perception of a storied Italian nation rooted in a mythologized past. On display for the first time, artist Ferruccio Ferrazzi’s colossal study for the mosaic The Myth of Rome will serve as an anchor for a series of focus studies that document the alliance between art, architecture, and ideology in Italy under Benito Mussolini. Ferrazzi designed the mosaic in 1938 as a government commission for one of the buildings surrounding the recently excavated Mausoleum of Augustus. The display will also include a selection of studies for additional mosaics designed by Ferrazzi as part of the overall The Myth of Rome installation in the Piazza Augusto Imperatore.

This visualizing of national origins through The Myth of Rome will be complemented by four focus studies of additional building projects carried out during the Fascist regime: the Foro Mussolini (now the Foro Italico), a sports complex modeled after the Roman forums of the Imperial age; the E U R, a new district in the Italian capital planned for the never-realized 1942 International Exhibition that would celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the regime; Virgilio Marchi’s drawings for a Futurist Rome; and the Italian Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

The Birth of Rome will be accompanied by a publication, the first in a new series exploring The Wolfsonian’s collection.

Rebirth of Rome is made possible by the Italian Consulate General Miami and the Italian Cultural Institute New York, with additional support from the Poltrona Frau Group Miami and the Leon Levy Foundation. We would also like to thank Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Marcello Cambi in Genoa, and the Wolfsoniana–Fondazione Regionale per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo in Genoa for their generous loans to the exhibition.

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collections comprise approximately 120,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945—the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals. The Wolfsonian is located at 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. Admission is $7 for adults; $5 for seniors, students, and children age 6 -12; and free for Wolfsonian members, State University System of Florida staff and students with ID, and children under six. The museum is open daily from noon-6 p.m.; Friday from noon-9 p.m.; and closed on Wednesday. Contact us at 305.531.1001 or visit us online at www.wolfsonian.org for further information.

The Wolfsonian–FIU is proud to receive ongoing support from The State of Florida; Department of Cultural Affairs; The Florida Council on Arts and Culture; The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program Cultural Arts Council; Bacardi, USA., Inc.; The Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation; The Wolfsonian Visionaries; and United Airlines, the Official Airline of The Wolfsonian–FIU.

Florida International University is one of the twenty-five largest universities in the nation, with more than forty-two thousand students. Nearly one hundred thirty thousand FIU alumni live and work in South Florida. Its colleges and schools offer more than two hundred bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations and law. As one of South Florida’s anchor institutions, FIU is worlds ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. The opening of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in August 2009 has enhanced the university’s ability to create lasting positive change in our community. For more information about FIU, visit www.fiu.edu.

The Wolfsoniana–Fondazione Regionale per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo, the Italian partner of The Wolfsonian–FIU, focuses on the study and exhibition of decorative and propaganda arts spanning the same period as the Wolfsonian collections. The Wolfsoniana opened as a study center in 1993 and expanded into a museum in 2005. Located in Genoa, its collection comprises a significant portion of Italian materials collected by Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. and gifted by him in 2007 to the Fondazione Regionale per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo.

Wolfsoniana Museum – via Serra Gropallo, 4, 16167 Genoa Nervi, Italy
phone + 1 39 010 3231329

Wolsoniana Study Center – Palazzo Ducale, Piazza Matteotti, 9, 16123 Genoa, Italy
phone + 1 39 010 5761393

www.wolfsoniana.it

Rebirth of Rome: Rendering War: The Murals of A. G. Santagata

For its fall 2013 exhibition season, on the occasion of the Year of Italian culture in the US, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents a program of independent though interrelated exhibitions, entitled Rebirth of Rome, that examine the aesthetics of dictatorship in interwar Italy

November 22, 2013 (opening)

Miami Beach

The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach

Each exhibition addresses responses to the challenges of modernity, as seen in the over 200 objects of public works, mural paintings, architecture, design, and decorative arts in Italy in the 1920s and 1930s, drawn from The Wolfsonian’s collection, with loans from the museum’s founder, Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., and from Marcello Cambi and the Wolfsoniana  in Genoa. The sum of the exhibitions comprises a portrait of Italy in the modern age, highlighting the dialogue between politics and aesthetics that largely defined its self-representation during this critical period of its history.

Rendering War focuses on the Italian Novecento artist Antonio Giuseppe Santagata’s large-scale studies for mural paintings created in the 1920s and ‘30s for buildings of the Association for Disabled and Invalid War Veterans (Case dei Mutilati). Chief among these are the artist’s studies for frescoes in the assembly hall and courtyard of the Casa Madre dei Mutilati (1928–1936), the national headquarters of the association, on the banks of the Tiber River in Rome. Commemorating and celebrating Italian soldiers in the First World War, Santagata’s imposing renderings offered a counter-narrative to the devastating realities of Italy’s actual experience in the war. These works not only express the heavily politicized aesthetic outlook of the Italian state, which promoted public art that would restore a sense of national pride and unity after the humiliations of the war, but also reflect the fierce debate taking place around the relationship between new architecture and visual culture.

Rebirth of Rome is made possible by the Italian Consulate General Miami and the Italian Cultural Institute New York, with additional support from the Poltrona Frau Group Miami and the Leon Levy Foundation. We would also like to thank Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Marcello Cambi in Genoa, and the Wolfsoniana–Fondazione Regionale per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo in Genoa for their generous loans to the exhibition.

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collections comprise approximately 120,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945—the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals. The Wolfsonian is located at 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. Admission is $7 for adults; $5 for seniors, students, and children age 6 -12; and free for Wolfsonian members, State University System of Florida staff and students with ID, and children under six. The museum is open daily from noon-6 p.m.; Friday from noon-9 p.m.; and closed on Wednesday. Contact us at 305.531.1001 or visit us online at www.wolfsonian.org for further information.

The Wolfsonian–FIU is proud to receive ongoing support from The State of Florida; Department of Cultural Affairs; The Florida Council on Arts and Culture; The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program Cultural Arts Council; Bacardi, USA., Inc.; The Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation; The Wolfsonian Visionaries; and United Airlines, the Official Airline of The Wolfsonian–FIU.

Florida International University is one of the twenty-five largest universities in the nation, with more than forty-two thousand students. Nearly one hundred thirty thousand FIU alumni live and work in South Florida. Its colleges and schools offer more than two hundred bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations and law. As one of South Florida’s anchor institutions, FIU is worlds ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. The opening of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in August 2009 has enhanced the university’s ability to create lasting positive change in our community. For more information about FIU, visit www.fiu.edu.

The Wolfsoniana–Fondazione Regionale per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo, the Italian partner of The Wolfsonian–FIU, focuses on the study and exhibition of decorative and propaganda arts spanning the same period as the Wolfsonian collections. The Wolfsoniana opened as a study center in 1993 and expanded into a museum in 2005. Located in Genoa, its collection comprises a significant portion of Italian materials collected by Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. and gifted by him in 2007 to the Fondazione Regionale per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo.

Wolfsoniana Museum – via Serra Gropallo, 4, 16167 Genoa Nervi, Italy

phone + 1 39 010 3231329

Wolsoniana Study Center – Palazzo Ducale, Piazza Matteotti, 9, 16123 Genoa, Italy

phone + 1 39 010 5761393

www.wolfsoniana.it

Boccaccio Award After Life

November 23, 2013

Providence

Brown University

To celebrate the seven hundredth anniversary of Giovanni Boccaccio's birth, the Decameron Web project has launched a contest for the best adaptation of a tale from the Decameron into a form of colloquial communication.

As part of the events to celebrate the seven hundredth anniversary of Giovanni Boccaccio's birth, the Decameron Web project at Brown University, under the aegis of the American Association of Boccaccio Studies and in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio in Certaldo, has established the International Boccaccio-After Life Award for the best translation, the best dramatic adaption, and the best new media adaptation of a tale from the Decameron.
Giovanni Boccaccio belongs to that select few of classic writers whose legacy broadly transcends the written word.
Today, adapting a literary work for another media holds unexpected consequences because of digital media's multiple forms. The purpose of this award is to spark the creativity of young readers and students of Boccaccio by inviting them to translate a tale from the Decameron into a communications form of our times, adapting it in letter and spirit to contemporary media and social contexts.
Three prizes are in play: best translation-adaptation into contemporary English, best adaptation for the stage, and best adaptation for other media (Youtube, social networks, animation, videogames, and similar).
The three winners will be published on the Decameron Web site and the best adaptation for stage will be performed by a theater troupe in Certaldo, just outside Florence.

Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome -II-

On the occasion of the exhibition “Sicily between Greece and Rome,” the Cleveland Museum of Art will host the great marble statue of the Youth of Motya, a masterpiece of classical Italian art

September 29, 2013 – January 5, 2014

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome: a fascinating journey through the marvels of Magna Grecia with masterpieces dating from the most splendid period of Greek colonies in Sicily: the piece most anxiously awaited by the U.S. public, the Efebo of Mozia, dates back to precisely this period.

Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome is a celebration of Sicilian culture – art, architecture, theater, poetry, philosophy and science – in the period between V-III A.C. A crucial period in the history of the Mediterranean, the ancient Greek colonies like Syracuse, Gela, Agrigento, and Selinos quickly developed into prosperous City-States, with a bourgeoning activity of experimentation and innovation. More than 150 objects testify to military and athletic victories, religious and civil rituals, the opulence of Sicilian life, and the intellectual achievements that shaped classic Rome and Greece.

The Efebo di Mozia, large marble statue preserved at the Whitaker museum in Mozia is one of the most highly awaited works of art from Italy, Sicily in particular, that is scheduled to arrive in the United States.
Likely brought to Mozia by Carthaginians after they sacked Selinos in 409 AC, the statue is of a male figure without arms and feet, and the presence of pivots on the face area suggests that it once had a head covering. The right arm was likely raised toward the air while the left one was curved inward with the hand resting on the hip. The long tunic, clinched by a belt at chest level accentuates the masculine physique and musculature.
Although identification has not been confirmed, the most credible theory is that the sculpture depicts a victorious athlete, a charioteer or carriage driver perhaps.

The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 - 1990

An exclusive exhibition of approximately 150 pieces created by the renowned Italian jeweler over four decades. This exhibition will highlight jewelry that defined a pivotal period in Italian design, and will include many pieces from the personal collection of Elizabeth Taylor

September 21, 2013 - February 17, 2014

San Francisco

DeYoung Museum

“I always visit Bulgari because it is the most important museum of contemporary art.”
– Andy Warhol

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to announce The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond 1950 - 1990, an exhibition of approximately 150 pieces created by the renowned Italian jeweler over four decades. This exclusive exhibition will highlight jewelry that defined a pivotal period in Italian design, and will include many pieces from the personal collection of Elizabeth Taylor. The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 – 1990 will be on display at the de Young Museum from September 21, 2013 through February 17, 2014.

Bulgari notably began to create its own trademark in jewelry in the 1960s by embracing boldly-colored combinations of gemstones, use of heavy gold, and forms derived from Greco-Roman classicism, the Italian Renaissance, and the 19th-century Roman school of goldsmiths. The company helped to develop a look that would come to be known as the “Italian school” of jewelry design. Pieces in the exhibition display the jeweler’s eclectic creativity and invention during this period.

Works in the exhibition also include those from the 1970s and 80s, a particularly innovative period for the jeweler and one influenced by Pop Art and other contemporary trends. "The hard-edged designs of the 1970s included a whole range based on the Stars-and-Stripes motif, while in the 1980s the Parentesi collection had a modular architectural presence; both show how the jeweler could lead in new directions with a strong sense of design,” said Martin Chapman, curator in charge of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Bulgari’s successful cultivation of prominent patrons and movie stars like Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman, and perhaps most notably, Elizabeth Taylor, has long been a key aspect of the jeweler’s reputation. To help explore the cultural context in which these objects were made, the exhibition will include innovative uses of sketches, photographs, and other archival materials that help to reveal a fascinating intersection of celebrity, design, and fine craftsmanship. 

The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 - 1990 continues the Fine Arts Museums’ strong track record of exhibitions highlighting the work of decisive figures and movements in the world of fashion and design including: Cartier in America, Balenciaga and Spain, Yves Saint Laurent and The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, among others.

Visiting
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
deyoungmuseum.org
415-750-3600

Museum Hours
Tuesday–Sunday, 9:30 am–5:15 pm
Friday (March 29–November 29, 2013) 9:30 am–8:45 pm
Closed Mondays

Admission

Admission: $20 adults; $17 seniors; $16 college students with ID; $10 youths 6–17. (These prices include general admission.) Members and children 5 and under are free. General admission is free the first Tuesday of every month.

Tickets can be purchased on site and on the de Young’s website: deyoungmuseum.org. Tickets purchased online include a $1 handling charge.

Group ticket reservations available by emailing groupsales@famsf.org

About the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in San Francisco.

The de Young is housed in a copper-clad landmark building designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. It showcases the institution’s significant collections of American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 17th to the 21st centuries; art from Oceania, Africa, and the Americas; a diverse collection of costumes and textiles; and international contemporary art.

The Legion of Honor’s Beaux-Arts style building designed by George Applegarth is located on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Its collections span 4,000 years and include European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts; ancient art from the Mediterranean basin; and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

About Bulgari
Today part of the LVMH Group, Bulgari was founded in Rome in 1884 as a jewelry shop and progressively imposed itself with its magnificent jewelry creations, emblems of Italian excellence. International success made the Company evolve into its current dimension as a global and diversified player in the luxury market, with a store network in the most exclusive shopping areas worldwide and a portfolio of products and services ranging from jewels and watches to accessories, perfumes and hotels.

Images available by request.

Media Contacts

Erin Garcia egarcia@famsf.org

Arlo Crawford acrawford@famsf.org

Clara Hatcher chatcher@famsf.org

Hilary Gurley, Senior Manager Public Relations, Bulgari Corporation of America

Hilary.heard@bulgari.com

A Vintage Tour of Italy

Exhibit of the original posters created by Italian artists in the last century and promoting Italian tourism

February – December 2013

New York and other US cities

Cinema Italian Style

Film festival organized by Luce Cinecittà that introduces Italy's official selections for the 2014 Academy Awards®

November 2013

Los Angeles, Egyptian Theater/ Aero Theater/ Italian Cultural Institute

Rex: History of a Legendary Ocean Liner

The Port Authority of Genoa presents an exhibition which commemorates the 80th anniversary of Rex’s capture of the Blue Riband in August 1933 with a record-breaking speed on the Genoa-New York routeN

2013

New York

Workshop APP – CLIQ

Workshop between CLIQ (Quality Certification of Italian language) Association, College Board representatives and the Observatory of Italian language in order to link the AP exam to the CLIQ certification

2013

“Italia Anni Zero: la giovane arte del 2000” 

Jas Gawronski presents his book about young Italian artists from the last decade 

Fall 2013 

New York

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò

Conference dedicated to Primo Levi

Presentation of the English translation of Primo Levi’s complete works published by W.W. Norton, in collaboration with the Primo Levi Center in New York

Fall 2013

New York

Seminar on  Primo Levi

The Italian Cultural Institute of New York and New York’s Primo Levi Center will organize a seminar with Turin’s Centro Primo Levi on the complex Turinese writer. The seminar will identify and highlight various elements that have shaped Levi’s writing, including the influence of Jewish culture, his scientific background, the Turinese intellectual environment, and the tragic experiences of war and concentration camps. The seminar will further analyze the role of Primo Levi in Italian and American literature.

Panelists:

Alberto Cavaglion, Università di Firenze

Domenico Scarpa, Centro internazionale di studi Primo Levi, Torino

Marco Belpoliti, writer, critic

Manuela Consonni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ann Goldstein, editor, translator

Joan Acocella, writer

Philip Roth, writer

Jonathan Galassi, President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

SACRUM: fascination of worship

The exhibition aims to help discover and get to know our vast heritage, outside the Italian borders, with a path of art and objects of sacred music, meaningful and valuable, hidden treasures, capable of arousing deep emotions. The exhibits cover a period from the 2nd century BC to the 17th century and then culminate in the 19th century with a single work

October 4 - December 8, 2013

New York

Church of Saint Agnes

Among the first works of "Sacrum" there is "Angizia" (terracotta) by the nemus Angitiae, "National Shrine" of the Marsi one of Italy's most important central Apennines (remembered by Virgil in the Aeneid) 2nd cent. B.C.
In the archaeological section are included also the "Ercole Liseppeo" (brass 1st century B.C.), "Funeral bone Beds" (2nd century BC), the "Venus of Alba", the "Boundary of Maenads" and "Italic Ex-Voto". Specimens of sacred gold processional cross "Orsini di Rosciolo", dated 1334.
The "Staurotheca" dating back to the 13th century.
The iconographic section provides the Madonna known as "del Melograno" by Giacomo da Campli (c. 1460 in Teramo), the "Madonna di Cese" (oil on wood) by Andrea Delitio (15th century Celano), the "Nascita della Vergine" by Giuseppe Cesari (XVII sec. Sulmona) and the "triptych" of Alba Fucens, ivory (fourteenth century. Celano).
The manuscripts section shows the precious "Exultet": the most famous and ancient parchment (1057 Archive of the Diocese of Marsi).
Further evidence of the link between Abruzzo and the Franciscan order, the show features the "Breviary of St. Francis" (1223, Assisi), the "triptych" of Franciscan Thomas of Celano (Assisi) and the "Missal" of his biographer, Thomas of Celano 13th century (Tagliacozzo), "Dies Irae" by Thomas of Celano 12th century (Naples) and the "Legend Major et Minor" by St. Bonaventure (Assisi).
The Bible called of St. Louis unique and precious original manuscript, (9-13th cc. Assisi), the "antiphonary of Trasacco" illuminated Volume of IV century.
"Sacrum" culminates with the only witness to the 19th century: the painting "Il Voto", work of the painter Francesco Paolo Michetti.

Giuseppe Verdi’s Bicentennial

Events and the staging of "Falstaff" to celebrate the composer's 200th birthday

November 2013

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Opera, Consulate General of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute

The Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute will present a series of events to celebrate Giuseppe Verdi’s bicentennial, in conjunction with LA Opera’s Falstaff, including the unveiling of a bronze bust of Giuseppe Verdi, based on the famous portrait by Giovanni Boldini, and cast for this special occasion by the master craftsmen of the Florentine artistic foundry Fonderia Marinelli.

In honor of Verdi’s 200th birthday, LA Opera presents the crowning glory of the composer’s magnificent career, his comic masterpiece Falstaff.
LA Opera Music Director James Conlon, praised internationally for his mastery of Verdi, conducts this unabashed celebration of Merrie Olde England’s lusty days and bawdy nights, starring Italian baritone Roberto Frontali. When Shakespeare’s portly knight of Windsor hatches a plot to improve his love life by courting two different married women, he launches a flood of comic chaos and romantic misadventure. In addition to Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff, cast includes acclaimed singers Carmen Giannattasio as Alice Ford and Marco Caria as Ford.

Originally a co-production between the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London), the Teatro Comunale (Florence) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Shapes of Knowledge: an installation by Sandro Chia

A contemporary work of art dedicated to the idea of knowledge

Fall 2013

New York

FindItalian

Application for tablets and smartphones to locate Centers, Institutes, Schools, Universities and American and Italian Committees of the Dante Alighieri Society where Italian language courses are being offered

2013

Online

Società Dante Alighieri

Founded in 1889 by a group of intellectuals guided by Giosue Carducci, for over a century the Dante Alighieri Society has upheld and promulgated Italian language, art and culture both in Italy and abroad, through an articulated information and dissemination network that encompasses all continents.

Africa, America, Europe, Asia and Oceania can count on the tireless activities of the many branches of the Società Dante Alighieri, not just through its language courses, but also in the numerous and diverse cultural events organised for thousands of members and students with a passion for our Italian heritage and eager to discover it in all its facets; from fine art to music, sports, film, theatre, fashion – and literature.

Dante Alighieri Italian schools in US and Italy:

Click to see the map and find info about locations and courses

Judith slaying Holophernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

The Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Foundation For Italian Art and Culture (FIAC) opens an important exhibition focused on Artemisia Gentileschi’s masterpiece, Judith Slaying Holofernes from the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

October 17, 2013 - January 9, 2014

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago

Highlighted by this exceptional loan from Italy, this exhibition explores the historical importance of Artemisia Gentileschi.

The Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Foundation For Italian Art and Culture (FIAC) opens an important exhibition focused on Artemisia Gentileschi’s masterpiece, Judith Slaying Holofernes from the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.

Informed by the Old Testament Apocrypha of Judith, Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting represents the decisive moment of the narrative—when the Jewish heroine Judith savagely decapitates the Assyrian general Holofernes to save her people. Rather than focusing on the ideals of beauty and courage also inspired by this story, like many other Italian artists, Artemisia chooses to depict the most dramatic and bloody moment of the story. Her depiction of Judith as a dauntless manslayer has generated heated debate about the artist’s intentions and persona. To help explore these questions, a selection of paintings, drawings and prints on the theme of Judith from the Art Institute’s collection are also on display. Highlighted by this exceptional loan from Italy, this exhibition explores the historical importance of Artemisia Gentileschi, as well as the Judith theme in art.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” from the Royal Library of Turin 

A display of Leonardo’s famous manuscript from 1505 that shows his drawings and plans for a Flying Machine 

September 12 - October 22, 2013
October 25, 2013 - Early 2014

Washington DC, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
New York, Morgan Library

Flying has always fascinated man, whom nature has ‘forced’ to remain grounded. Already in the early 16^th century, Leonardo da Vinci was studying how birds fly prompted by both scientific curiosity and the desire to accomplish one of man’s greatest dreams—to fly. Among the papers in the book are drawings for flying machines, designs of birds in flight and other original writings by da Vinci.

Leonardo’s genius lives again in this invaluable and delicate manuscript, Codex of Flight, only 18 pages long where he noted his observations on the flight of birds.
The truth is that his genius went far beyond: he envisioned the construction of flying machines that are so well designed that they are considered advanced even today, based on the principles of aerodynamics that make it possible for birds to take to the air.
The manuscript dates back to 1505 and went through many hands, disassembled and then reassembled, before coming into the hands of the House of Savoy, which put the book in the Royal Library of Turin where it has been conserved until today.
The U.S. public now has the opportunity to personally examine one of the codices that laid the foundations for engineering and technological advances of subsequent centuries and at the same time learn more about the Leonardo’s visionary projects 500 years ago.

On the occasion of the Year of Italian Culture, Washington’s Air and Space Museum hosts a splendid exhibition with copies of the manuscript that can be consulted and a digital version that showcases its extraordinary nature.

The Air and Space Museum, which opened in 1946, is an interactive gallery where children, adolescents, and entire families can spend time learning about scientific discoveries, engineering designs and visit small futuristic spaces that have drawn outer space ever closer.  

Retrieved Treasures: Madonna di Senigallia by Piero Della Francesca

From Perugino to Canova, from Piero della Francesca to Antonello da Messina. Italian masterpieces stolen or illicitly exported and then retrieved by the Italian Carabinieri (Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage)

Fall 2013

Boston, New York