Michelangelo Antonioni: Confronting the Modern World with Style
This January and February the British Film Institute will pay tribute to the revolutionary work and fascinating personality of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007). You will be able to enjoy some of his greatest masterpieces, such as Zabriskie Point, La Notte, L’avventura, and The Passenger, as well as attend interesting talks on the art of the Italian director. Certainly […]
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CANCELLED!!! Weaving Architecture: Benedetta Tagliabue in conversation with Deyan Sudjic.
We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances we will need to cancel this talk. We hope to reschedule the talk in the next few weeks. Please accept our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience that may have been caused as result of the talk’s cancellation. The fifth and last talk of the series […]
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The Venice Time Machine: Digitising Heritage in Time and Space
Don’t miss the chance to learn about the Venice Time Machine! A large international project that aims to digitally and virtually reconstruct Venice using the city’s State Archive that covers more than 1,000 years of evolution, a revolutionary study in Digital Humanities and a unique example of Big Data of the Past. Presented by Frederic […]
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TOSCA – a film by Jean Renoir, Luchino Visconti and Carlo Koch (1940)
A special FAI UK event: the film buffs among our audience will be pleased to know that, contrary to what Luchino Visconti thought, TOSCA, the film based on Sardou’s play, still exists and it will be screened here – with a snag, in Spanish (with Italian subtitles). But we are lucky to be able to […]
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Talks on Italian Photography #2
What is happening in the new photographic research in Italy? Lorenza Bravetta, Marco Delogu and Marina Spunta will be in conversation about Italian photography in recent years. [BOOK NOW] Lorenza Bravetta, previously Director of Magnum Photos, and of the programme for the valorization of the national photographic patrimony at the Italian Ministry of Culture, is now working […]
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Elisa Montessori: Dafne and the Butterflies
The Italian Cultural Institute in London is pleased to host the exhibition “Dafne and the Butterflies”, by Italian artist and painter Elisa Montessori in the Project Room. The 14 works displayed belong to a private collection and are for the first time open to the public on this occasion. Coherent with the rest of her […]
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Mantegna-Bellini: A talk with Caroline Campbell and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa
“A story of art, family, rivalry, and personality” Join us to witness a talk between two of the most respected curators and expert of Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini. The decade-long dialogue between Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini has been one of the most profitable and fascinating in the history of Italian art. The two brothers-in-law develop an […]
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ARCHIVE | 1998 Events
1998 JANUARY Monday 19 January 7.00 pm Opera Opening Talk by Paul Daniel (Music Director, English National Opera) Tuesday 20 January 6.30pm Book presentation (in English) The New History of the Italian South Edited by Robert Lumley and Jonathan Morris Christopher Duggan (Univ. of Reading), Robert Leonardi (LSE) and Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex Univ) present the work […]
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