On November 30, the Italian pavilion created by the Italian Trade Commission was awarded the prize for Best Pavilion at the 23rd edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair. The Italian Trade Commission, following the success of last year when Italy was the guest of honor, organized the Italian participation at the Guadalajara Book Fair, in collaboration with AIE (Italian Publishers Association). The ITC … Continued
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago from November 14, 2009 – February 14, 2010. This exhibition, copresented by the MCA and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, explores Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present. The major survey of Italian contemporary art features work by more than 75 Italian … Continued
Dino Buzzati was an Italian novelist, short story writer, graphic artist, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. Best known worldwide for his novel Il deserto dei Tartari, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe, his English-speaking fans are eagerly awaiting the October 6th publication of Buzzati’s Poem Strip. Translated for the first time into English by Marina Harss, … Continued
