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Arts
Saturday, October 29, 2011 - Sunday, February 12, 2012
Masters of Venice at the de Young
The de Young Museum presents the exhibition Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power – a worldwide exclusive presentation of 50 paintings by sixteenth century Venetian painters on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna. For >>>
Arts
Saturday, November 05, 2011 - Sunday, February 12, 2012
Florence and the Baroque: Paintings from the Haukohl Family Collection
This exhibition brings masterworks of Italian painting and sculpture from the 16th through 18th centuries to Northern California. On view at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento from November 5, 2011 through February 12, 2012, this exhibition is drawn >>>
Arts
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - Sunday, February 19, 2012
Bernini's Medusa
Musei Capitolini in Rome are lending San Francisco one of their greatest treasures, the remarkable Baroque masterpiece The Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), one of art history’s finest sculptors and a leading figure in Italian Baroque art and >>>
Arts
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - Friday, March 30, 2012
Marco Casentini solo exhibition
Italian artist Marco Casentini (born in La Spezia, 1961) will show his work in a personal exhibition at the Istituto. This acclaimed artist is a regular guest at leading museums and galleries in Europe and the US. His paintings are characterized by geometric >>>
Cinema
Thursday, February 09, 2012 - Saturday, February 25, 2012
Portland International Film Festival
The 35th edition of the Portland International Film Festival will feature 3 Italian movies: Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope, 2011), Il sale della vita (The Salt of Life, 2011), and Corpo Celeste (2011).Habemus Papam: Nanni Moretti’s latest work tells a >>>
Lectures
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Bridges to Genova: New and Old
This lively panel discussion will address long-standing cultural and culinary traditions in Genova, along with more recent trends. The discussion with Monica Viarengo and Vittorio Viarengo (no relation) and Giorgio Ghersi will be moderated by Viola Buitoni, >>>
Music
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra makes its first appearance in San Francisco since 1987, led by Music Director Riccardo Muti. Mason Bates, who is a Mead Composer in-Residence with the CSO as well as the Project San Francisco Composer with the SFS, performs >>>
Music
Friday, February 17, 2012
Enrico Rava in San Francisco
A European jazz patriarch universally esteemed by his New York peers, Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava has collaborated with some of the music’s most creative figures, from Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd to Carla Bley and Lee Konitz. Deeply influenced by Miles >>>
Lectures
Friday, February 17, 2012
Bernini: His Life and His Rome
Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and >>>
Music
Monday, February 27, 2012
Zone 3: in which an inscription is erased but leaves a trace
The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players present a concert of works that draw deeply from European musical and literary traditions, with music by Luigi Dallapiccola, Michelle Lou, Salvatore Sciarrino, Pascal Dusapin, and Iannis Xenakis. Artistic Director >>>
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