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Art
Friday, February 12, 2010 - Sunday, August 15, 2010
MAURIZIO CATTELAN AT THE MENIL COLLECTION IN HOUSTON
The exhibition at The Menil Collection, organized by Franklin Sirmans, will be Maurizio Cattelan’s first solo show in Texas. It will focus on recent largescale works that premiered in Europe in 2007. It will include the monumental and unsettling memento >>>
Art
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - Sunday, April 11, 2010
ABRUZZO'S BEFFI TRIPTYCH ON DISPLAY AT NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART
After a successful exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, The Beffi Triptych is on view at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno. The first work of art to be transported out of the region of Abruzzo, Italy, in the aftermath of the April 2009 violent earthquake, >>>
Theater
Friday, March 12, 2010 - Saturday, April 17, 2010
TWO ROUNDS BY CRISTINA COMENICINI
It's 1960, and every Thursday four ladies gather for their weekly card game, discussing their loves, lives and losses while their young daughters play in the next room. More than three decades later, these same daughters meet in the same house after the >>>
Theater
Saturday, March 13, 2010 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
PLAY BY DACIA MARAINI IN PASADENA AND AT THE IIC
For the first time in English translation, IIC presents Dacia Maraini’s play Dialogue Between a Prostitute and her Client featuring Francesca Fanti, who recently performed Maraini’s Love Letters at the Institute, in her presence. Dialogue between a Prostitute >>>
Opera
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - Friday, April 23, 2010
MARIA CALLAS AND RICHARD WAGNER: EXHIBIT AND LECTURE
Just over fifty years since Maria Callas’ historic debut at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the spirit of “La Divina” returns to the City of Angels at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Italian Cultural Institute/IIC) March 16-April 23, 2010 in the >>>
Art
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - Sunday, June 20, 2010
LEONARDO DA VINCI AT THE GETTY CENTER
Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention, a major international loan exhibition, celebrates Leonardo’s achievements and involvement in the art of sculpture. Through original drawings, the exhibition explores his ambitious >>>
Literature
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
IN VOLO SENZA CONFINI BY LAURA MANCUSO
Explorer Angelo d’Arrigo (1961-2006) flew among flocks of geese across Siberia, followed Step eagles above Tibetan plains, and became the first man ever to fly over the summit of Everest on a hang glider. Angelo’s Condor Research Project involved caring >>>
Literature
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
VALERIO MASSIMO MANFREDI PRESENTS THE IDES OF MARCH
From the pen of the international bestselling author of The Last Legion, comes a new political thriller set during the tempestuous final days of Julius Caeser’s Imperial Rome. It is early March in the year 44 BC. The Roman Empire stretches from modern-day >>>
Cinema
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
SCREENING OF I WON’T LET YOU DIE BY ALBERTO SIMONE
Following the enthusiastic reception of his film Un difetto di famiglia/Family Flaw, screened as part of the series “Italians in Movies,” director Alberto Simone returns to Hollywood to introduce his new work, In nome del figlio (literally “In the name >>>
Literature
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
ERRI DE LUCA AT THE INSTITUTE
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA COM.IT.ES LA LINGUA VIVAFONDAZIONE ITALIA are pleased to invite you to an evening with ERRI DE LUCA “The writer of the decade” (G. De Rienzo, Corriere della Sera) Wednesday, April 7, 2010 6:30pm Istituto Italiano di Cultura >>>
Cinema
Friday, April 09, 2010 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
43RD ANNUAL WORLDFEST IN HOUSTON
In its 43rd annual celebration honoring the best of independent cinema from around the globe, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, will present many premieres. Founded in 1961 by the award-winning producer Hunter Todd, WorldFest- Houston is >>>
Music
Saturday, April 10, 2010 - Sunday, April 11, 2010
DADO MORONI TRIO
Dado Moroni (Genoa 1962) was exposed to jazz music very early, and started playing piano at age 4. Ten years later he began playing professionally throughout Italy with some of the most important Italian players like Franco Cerri, Tullio De Piscopo and >>>
Cinema
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - Thursday, April 29, 2010
11TH NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL
The 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival will showcase more than 350 films from around the world, offering an ambitious selection of features, shorts, documentaries, and animations that will compete for both Jury and Audience awards. Since its beginnings, >>>
Publishing
Friday, April 23, 2010 - Sunday, April 25, 2010
DAYS OF FEAR BY DANIELE MASTROGIACOMO
The Institute presents a conversation with author and journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, whose book Days of Fear (Europa Editions 2010) is a gripping firsthand account of captivity under the new Taliban. In 2007, while on assignment in Afghanistan for >>>
Cinema
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
REMEMBERING THE PASINETTI BROTHERS
Following the success of the two day conference Le Parentele inventate: Letteratura, cinema e arte per Francesco e Pier Maria Pasinetti in Venice, the Institute presents a round table discussion on the Pasinetti brothers, two important personalities of >>>
Art
Monday, May 03, 2010
MADE IN VENICE: CHARLES RAY AND SAM WATTERS
Charles Ray (born 1953), widely regarded as one of the most significant artists of his generation, and scholar Sam Watters, will discuss Ray’s Boy with Frog and the place of public sculpture in the world today. Ray lives and works in Los Angeles and is >>>
Art
Thursday, May 06, 2010 - Friday, June 18, 2010
INTERIOR COSTUME BY ENZO CUCCHI
Inaugurated at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples in the summer of 2009 and later shown at MACRO in Rome, the exhibition Interior Costume premieres in the States at the IIC of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Enzo Cucchi, one of the most original and visionary >>>
History
Thursday, May 13, 2010
PRESENTATION OF LOS ANGELES’S LITTLE ITALY
While Los Angeles possesses the nation’s fifth-largest Italian population today, little is known about its Italian history, which has been examined by only a handful of authors over the past 70 years. In the much-anticipated new book Los Angeles’s Little >>>
Anthropology
Thursday, May 27, 2010
ALESSANDRO DURANTI AND KENNY BURRELL
Alessandro Duranti, world renowned linguistic anthropologist and Kenny Burrell, legendary jazz guitarist and composer, present a conversation on The Culture of Jazz Aesthetics: A Pedagogical Experiment, aimed at discovering why jazz music is such an unique >>>
Music
Thursday, June 03, 2010
ORGAN CONCERT BY CORRADO CAVALLI
Organ player Corrado Cavalli will perform at First Congregational Church on the occasion of the 41st organ concert series and at Santa Monica Catholic Church. He graduated at the Conservatory in Turin and won two national organ competitions, Città di >>>
Music
Thursday, June 03, 2010
CONCERT BY TRIO BROZ
Invited by Hans Weisshaar Instruments, one of the leading violinmakers and experts in the U.S. and abroad, Trio Broz will play with rare violins and cellos along with world famous musicians. The Trio Broz is composed of sisters Barbara (violin) and Giada >>>
Cinema
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - Sunday, June 27, 2010
16TH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
The 16th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival brings to public attention the best of independent American and international films. Supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the LA Film Festival is affiliated with Film Independent (FIND), >>>
Cinema
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - Monday, June 28, 2010
SHORTFEST PALM SPRINGS
With an impressive line-up of short films, the long-windedly named 2010 Palm Springs International ShortFest and ShortFilm Market gets ready to open its theater doors on June 22. Now in its 16th year, ShortFest has grown to become the largest and highest >>>
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