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When: Tuesday, November 21st at 6pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 500 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450, The exhibition will be on view through January 8, 2018 On the occasion of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, September 16, 2017 through January 8, 2018, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Chicago Architecture Biennial are pleased to...

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Gita fuori porta alternativa? Visitare un museo delle auto. Se avete sempre sognato di scoprire le origini delle auto, vedere da molto vicino modelli diventati leggendari o un lungo elenco di monoposto da Formula 1, con i dieci musei selezionati da Viaggi24 entrete nel vivo dell'automobilismo. Oltre a modelli unici al mondo sarà possibile vivere in...

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For a brief time in the 1970s, Italy’s Lina Wertmuller was one of the top names in international cinema. Explosive and provocative, her films were cultural events and lively conversation starters at countless dinner parties. Her most successful, “Seven Beauties,” brought Wertmuller an Oscar nomination in 1977 — an historic first for a woman directo...

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An exhibition of rare 17th-century Italian tapestries that once decorated St. Peter’s Basilica will be on view beginning Sept. 23 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus. The exhibition of massive tapestries made for Cardinal Francesco Barberini includes a highly-regarded series on the life of Christ, on loan from t...

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THE ART HISTORIAN and curator Peter Benson Miller was 13 when his parents began taking him to antiques markets and junk shops near their weekend house in Litchfield County, Conn. By the time he moved for good to Italy almost 30 years later, in 2009 — he is now in charge of the exhibition program and special events at the American Academy in Rome —...

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Pamela Quinzi, Italian fashion designer from Rome, based in New York since 2009 presented her new Kilame Collection dresses and shoes during New York Fashion Week 2017. The fashion show took place at Megu, the prestigious Japanese Restaurant and event space inside the famous Dream Hotel, downtown Manhattan in the meatpacking district. Location excl...

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According to Silvio Luigi Barile, most people don't understand the art that he's built at his pizzeria for the past 50 years -- but they like it. Silvio is an Italian World War II refugee. He moved to Michigan with his family, then opened a pizzeria and pastry shop. But the longer that Silvio lived in America, the more he felt that he had to create...

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Top-flight American talent may have deserted New York Fashion Week this season, but it's still the dream for at least one up-and-coming Italian designer who made his Big Apple debut Friday. GCDS -- aka "God Can't Destroy Streetwear" -- unveiled a fun, flirty fantasy inspired by Truman Capote's novel "The Swans of Fifth Avenue" on the second day of...

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High-performance sports car and fine watch enthusiasts will have an opportunity to examine rare and valuable collectibles up close during a Ferrari cruise-in, slated for Sept. 23 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at James Free Jewelers, 3100 Far Hills Ave., Kettering. The event, which is free and open to the public, is being coordinated with the Ferrari Club...

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Somebody just bought the Ferrari-you-can’t-buy. Yes, a Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta sold for $10 million Saturday night at the RM Sotheby’s auction at Ferrari's Fiorano track in northern Italy. (By our calculations, 8.3 million Euros equals $9,989,340.50. We just rounded that up to $10 million.) Mama mia! That’s a record for a modern car. It’s also dou...

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