This year Christmas shopping is hard on consumers and businesses alike. The American market seems hostile, at worst, depressed, so what are Italian luxury brands in the U.S. doing to stave off buyer's blues? The Italian Trade Commission helps them confront the issue head-on
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Art & CultureThe prize consists of a grant of $3,000 and, more importantly, a large financial contribution for the translation and publication of her book in the United States. i-Italy interviewed the Sardinian writer who won with her novel Mal di Pietre. -
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York will host the event even though Bassolino’s regional government allocated no funds to finance it. “Keeping culture alive in Campania is a constant battle. I am not going to fight this time,” said the director of the awards, Tjuna Notarbartolo
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MoMA dedicates the second appointment of its series “Filmmaker in Focus” to Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek. During the press conference at the Italian Cultural Institute, Laura Delli Colli's book “Ferzan Ozpetek: Eyes Wide Open” was also presented
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Life & PeopleIn Italians: Around the World in 80 Pizzas (Italians, Il giro del mondo in 80 pizze) Severgnini, the well-known "Corriere della Sera" journalist, meets “his” Italians abroad – the hungry and outspoken readers of his blog. They also wrote Italians: A Day in the World (Italians, una giornata nel mondo), 240 personal stories which all can be read and downloaded for free.
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"I believe that if Michelangelo lived today, it would be in New York city that he would sculpt his Pietà" said Marilena Ferrari when donating the book to the New York Public Library.
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Art & CultureTenor Marcello Giordani interviewed by Fred Plotkin: “If I had decided to stay in Italy I would be starving by now. In America they gave me the opportunity to grow as an artist right from the very beginning”
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A few days ago the Consulate General of Italy in New York organized a conference to commemorate the event, an important turning point in the history of the international relations between Italy and the US.
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Facts & StoriesOn 11/20, “One Hundred Years After the Strait of Messina Earthquake: Emergency Management from Solidarity to Efficiency"
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"The relationship between Italianità and Italicity is a complex reality on which we have to reflect..." Piero Bassetti, a renowned entrepreneur, politician and public intellectual, presented the English translation of his latest book "Italici" at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.
