Arts & Culture
Corsi Integrativi di lingua e cultura Italiana
Casa Italiana Ente Gestore corsi integrativi di lingua e cultura Italiana 2016/17
Washington – Opening on September 7 of exhibit on the Requalification of Iraqi Cultural
“Heritage in Danger. The Centro Scavi Torino and the Requalification of the Iraqi Cultural Heritage” opens on September 7, 2016. The exhibit is organized by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Institute of Culture in Washington, in collaboration with the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino (Research Archaeological Excavations Center of Turin – Crast) […]
“Moving Out” Hits a Familiar Migration Theme
As a younger generation of Italians emigrates in search of better opportunities, an older generation of Italians who have lived abroad for many years look back nostalgically to return to their homeland. The views of these two faces of migration were well-encapsulated in the world-premiere performance of “Moving Out,” a two-character theatrical/operatic play composed by […]
Mark Mazzetti, New York Times Correspondent Wins Urbino Press Award
Italian Ambassador to the U.S. Armando Varricchio will make the official announcement May 17 during a ceremony at the Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C. —— Washington DC, May 11, 2016 – The New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti is the winner of the 2016 Urbino Press Award, the Italian prize that is awarded annually […]
Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries at the National Gallery of Art
On March 21, 2016, the National Gallery of Art debuted the second release in its Online Editions series, Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by the late Miklós Boskovits, one of the leading scholars of early Italian art. More than a decade in the making, this catalog offers a fresh examination of this […]
Protecting our Heritage – a program by EUNIC Washington DC, proposed by the Italian rotating presidency of the network
“I am a human, and nothing of that which is human is alien to me.” This famous quotation by the Latin playwright Terence (2nd century BC) is often cited as the motto of Humanitas, an ideal based on the fulfillment of the best human potential and values, the pursuit of beauty, education, kindness and tolerance. […]
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World at the National Gallery of Art
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, an unprecedented exhibition of some 50 rare bronze sculptures and related works from the Hellenistic period is on view at the National Gallery of Art from December 13, 2015, through March 20, 2016. The exhibit was previously at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and the J. Paul […]
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