At home in Renaissance Italy

From the 5th October 2006 until the 7th January 2007, the Victoria and Albert Museum hosted the exhibition "At Home in Renaissance Italy"...
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Pulini and Kokocinski:
Italian painting in London

Two important exhibitions have enlightened two among the most interesting Italian artist on the contemporary scene: Massimo Pulini and Alessandro Kokocinski...
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Music is... Music and the Italian Cultural Institute

We have met Dr Luigi Mammolini, Attaché for Cultural Affairs Music and Cinemaat the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Director of the Institute Prof Pierluigi Barrotta...
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The Italian cinema conquers London

During the last month the cinema screens in London (and not only) lighted up of Italian productions, at the go of two important festivals: The Times BFI London Film Festival and the Italian Film Festival UK...
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Maestro, music please!

There is an embarrassingly wide choice for the classical music lovers in London! The offer is large and diversified, and also in this field Italy can hold its head high thanks to names such as the Accademia Bizantina, Ivan Fedele, the Trio di Parma, Roberto Abbado and Roberto Plano...
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Music-Hall: Wicked

So? Where are the songs, the music, the emeralds?! Ok, the show is over and this is London, but after nearly three hours of musical I want, I demand, I expect a yellow bricl road leading me home from the Apollo Victoria Theatre...
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A tea with Gabriele Magnani, art critic

Gabriele Magnani, Italian journalist and London corrispondent for the monthly magazine AD, is the art expert with whom we have discussed sipping a tea...
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Stefano Benni meets Jonathan Coe

On the occasion of the launch in England of his latest novel Margherita Dolce Vita, Stefano Benni, one of the most renowned and beloved Italin authors of his generation, has met at the Italian Cultural Institute Jonathan Coe...
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The Wine Show

Turnabout for the Made in England polulation? Well, it might be a bit rash to state the English people are dropping the beloved pint of beer in favour of a glass of wine...
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The Nuumak at the GBOB

It has just concluded the 2006 edition of the GBOB - Global Battle of the Bands - which has crowned as winners the USA band Heavy Mojo with a prize of $100,000 and a world tour [...] Our standard-bearers, winners of the Italian selections, were the Nuumak...
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The Italian President Giorgio Napolitano
in London

The President of the Italian Republic has been to London on 12th and 13th October 2006. During his stay, not as a State Visit but as a Courtesy Visit, he has met in Buckingham Palace Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II...
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Italian Cities: Palermo, Sicily

The idea of writing some special dossiers about Italy was born by considering the way non-Italians, and sometimes alas! even the Italians themselves, continue talking about Italy by clichés...
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Leonardo da Vinci
at the Victoria & Albert Museum

There is time until the 7th January 2007 to visit Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design, the exhibition inaugurated the 14th September at the Victoria & Albert Museum and dedicated to the Tuscan genius...
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The Lacuna Coil (Karma)Code

It is incredible the success that this Italian band is having, almost unknown at home yet, whilst they are filling auditoriums all around the world. They are currently on a world tour that will bring them all the way to the States and Mexico...
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Frieze Art vs Scope London
vs The Affordable Art Fair

During the second week of October the art world in London seemed to go mad: numerous event and activities concentrated in few days. Ok, ok, not that in London nothing usually happens, but why events such as Frieze Art Fair and Scope Art London were scheduled exactly for the same period, both from 12th to 15th of October?...
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Crystal Fischetti

On the 13th of October the Red Gate Gallery in Coldharbour Lane opened its doors to visitors to the exhibition of the young woman artist Crystal Fischetti. Crystal, of Italian father and Colombian mother, is here to introduce us to her first production of abstract works...
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Napul'e': Singing, Love and Good Mood

An intimate atmosphere on the 11th October for the warm voice of Angelica Sepe, guest of the Italian Cultural Institute with her Trio for an evening dedicated to the Neapolitan song...
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A different Safari: AIDSAFARI

“Life is still a great voyage for me, rich with miracles and surprises. I’m walking better now, but I can traverse the universe without taking a single step. There are 747s in my mind, just waiting to take flight...
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The Editorial

It is with great regret that I steal space from the article about Rodin, but even if this is not a topical magazine it is fair - sometimes - to be topical...
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Rodin at the Royal Academy of Arts

It could seem a little odd to highlight as the event of the month the exhibition of a French artist on a newsletter primarly concerned with Italian art...
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An interview with Rossanna Pittelli:
'The Colours of Italy'

We have met Dr. Rossana Pittelli, art expert at the Italian Cultural Institute in London, to talk about her work and the objectives of the Institute...
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Italian Arcadian

It is always a pleasure to see Italian artists whose talent is acknowledged abroad: this is the case of the exhibition Italian Arcadian, held in August in the amazing setting of the Stables Galleries of the Orleans House in Twickenham, along the Thames...
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Afterhours: the hyenas invade London

Who already knows the Afterhours can imagine the atmosphere on 25th September at The Fly Bar in London, who does not know them and who was not there please repent of your faults and I will try to explain it by words...
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Viva Italia Show

As the name itself suggests, the event held at the Olympia Exhibition Centre form 22nd to 24th September 2006 was entirely dedicated to Itaiy and to the products that feed its fame...
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London Fashion Week

For those who work in the fashion industry, no doubt the eagerly awaited appointment every season in the UK is the London Fashion Week...
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The artist of the issue: Giulia Ricci

Giulia Ricci, a young and talentouos artist, whose works span from collage to installations, tells us about herself, her art and where it comes from...
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Viva Zapatero!

We were expecting to see an audience compesed mainly by Italians at the Odeon screening of Viva Zapatero! but, instead, the majority of the people were "foreigners"...
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Blow-Up

London in the Sixties, the world of art and fashion, a photographer, a woman and a mistery...
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Modigliani and his models

From the 16th July until the 15th October 2006 the Royal Academy of Arts hosts Modigliani and his models. Dedicated to the great artist from Livorno, Italy...
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An interview with Renato Miracco:
art is a flow

We met Prof. Renato Miracco on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Italian Abstraction, of which he is the curator, at the Estorick Collection...
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Shakespeare, the Italian

In August we watched the Shakespeare tragedy Antony and Cleopatra at the Rainbow Theatre, in the marvellous setting represented by the garden of the Greenwich Astronomic Observatory...
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One night on stage with Massimo Marinoni

Dear Massimo, the first question is obligatory: what is art for you?
Art is an expression of ourselves and of our own individuality in everyday life; we must live with art inside ourselves instead of spending the entire life running after it as if it was something outside ourselves...
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Whitney Lynn Daccico

We have met Whitney Lynn Daccico, a 13-year-old Italian-American poetess, for a short interview about poetry...
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Pure - Fashion is served!

From the 7th until the 9th of August 2006 fashion was on its own ground at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in Earl’s Court. Organised by Pure Magazine, the fashion magazine published by Emap Communications...
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Galileo is alive!

We have watched the play Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht at the National Theatre. It is this kind of performances that allow us to remember about the past and at the same time to confront ourselves with the future...
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Beer Italia

It sounds unbelievable, but I have drunk two amongst the best Italian beers here in London!...
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Allons enfants de l'Italie!

Many people have already written and commented on the wonderful triumph of our national football team, which moved us and made us all shout as if we were children, from the first match against Ghana to the last one against France!...
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Marco Paolini, the artisan of words

We have met and interviewed Marco Paolini, who presented an unusual comical repertoire during the conference held on Wednesday 21st of June at the Institute of Romance and Germanic Studies of the University of London...
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Carmen Consoli in London

The Camden Centre, on 8th June 2006, hosted the last stage of Carmen Consoli’s European tour, which had started 9th of May 2006 from Palermo, Sicily, and concluded in the most cosmopolitan city of Europe...
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