Paul Coldwell: An Imaginary Grand Tour
The experience of lockdown has prompted a yearning to travel, if only in imagination. It is in this context that the Italian Cultural Institute is proud to re-present a work by Paul Coldwell made for Sir John Soane’s Museum in London last year, which has gained even greater poignancy during the pandemic. First Orders: Scenes […]
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Science for Society: COVID 19. Searching for effective therapies. Where are we?
A webinar part of the series Science for Society, within #ItalyRestArt, the programme of online cultural, scientific and art events promoted by the Italian Embassy in London Greetings by the Italian Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta Speakers Guido Rasi (Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency) and Sergio Bonini (Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National research Council of Italy) […]
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Speciale Pippo Delbono #3 – Orchidee (2013)
Special Pippo Del Bono – for the month of June, the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione offers free theatre video streaming of four performances by Compagnia Pippo Del Bono, available with English subtitles (as well as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Romanian) Orchidee (Orchids), Conceived and directed by Pippo Delbono2013, 115 minIn Italian with English subtitles […]
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Speciale Pippo Delbono #4 – Vangelo (2016)
Special Pippo Delbono – for the month of June, the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione offers free theatre video streaming of four performances by Compagnia Pippo Delbono, available with English subtitles (as well as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Romanian) Vangelo (Gospel) Conceived and directed by Pippo Delbono2016, 100 minIn Italian with English subtitles with Gianluca […]
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Luoghi del Contemporaneo (Contemporary Art Venue)
Contemporary Art Venues, the search platform aiming to contribute to the real-time monitoring of the Contemporary Art scenario in Italy, has just launched a new search category: Artworks in Public Spaces, a selection of permanent works of contemporary art conceived for public spaces. This new section joins the existing ones: Associations, Collections, Foundations, Foreign Institutions, […]
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ESTATE ALL’ITALIANA FESTIVAL
Not only cinema, but also music is the focus of an ambitious online project to promote Italian culture, as the country and parts of the world increasingly resume activities following the gradual easing of Covid restrictions. “Estate all’Italiana Festival” is brought to you by Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, in cooperation with […]
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Webinar: Raphael then and now. Launch of Claudia La Malfa’s Raphael and Antique
Within the framework of #ItalyRestArt The author will be in conversation with historian Ben Thomas and award-winning student Kostas Gravanis Claudia La Malfa’s recent book Raphael and the Antique (Reaktion, 2019) takes us on a masterful journey through Raphael’s approach to antiquity. ‘Raphael’s compositions were highly appreciated for his mastery of representing the real world […]
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Aby Warburg Seminar. The Afterlife of Classical Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance #1
First meeting. Skulls, Tree Bark, Fossils: Memory and Materiality in Georges Didi-Huberman’s Transvaluation of Surface – Dr. Magdalena Zolkos This regular seminar and reading group is devoted to the work of Aby Warburg (1866–1929), a prominent German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, which later become the Warburg Institute. A lover […]
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FocusOnRaphael
Raphael, Studies for the figure of Christ, c.1507, pen and brown ink over leadpoint, 28.5 x 16.2 cm. Presented by Chambers Hall in 1855, Ashmolean Museum WA1855.91. Over sketchy guidelines in leadpoint Raphael built up this vigorous pen and ink drawing of a standing child. With a twisting movement he leans upwards and to the […]
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FARE CINEMA 2020: Masterclass – Cinema contemporaneo
Do not miss the exclusive masterclasses by renowned Italian cinema experts Gianni Canova and Gianfranco Angelucci, dedicated to Federico Fellini, Alberto Sordi and contemporary Italian cinema. Fare Cinema: lights, colours, stories and protagonists of the great Italian cinema. […]
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