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Join Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, as he discusses the NPG’s major transformation project, Inspiring People, and the Gallery’s links to Italy. Based primarily on Michelozzo’s Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence and with a nod to the Oratorio dello Santo Spirito in Bologna, Nicholas will talk about the redevelopment of the historical building, the redisplay of the collection and the future of the NPG.
Nicholas Cullinan took up his position as the Director of the National Portrait Gallery in spring 2015 following his role as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Prior to this, from 2007 to 2013, Nicholas was Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern where he co-curated an exhibition of Henri Matisse’s cut-outs with Sir Nicholas Serota in 2014. Nicholas received his BA, MA and PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and in 2006–7 he held the Hilla Rebay International Fellowship at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, New York and Venice.
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Photo credit: National Portrait Galler. Gertrude Elizabeth (née Blood), Lady Colin Campbell. by Giovanni Boldini, oil on canvas, circa 1897.
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Luigi Ballerini is an Italian essayst, poet, and professor emeritus of modern and contemporary Italian Literature. He has taught at New York University, the University of California (Los Angeles), and Yale University. A volume of his collected poems was published by Mondadori in 2016. He has translated into Italian books by several American authors (including Gertrude Stein, Herman Melville, Henry James, James Baldwin) and edited a number of anthologies of American and Italian Poetry. His research in the field of historical Gastronomy have resulted in the first critical edition of Maestro Martino’s Libro de Arte Coquinaria (Book of the Culinary Art) and the first complete English edition of Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well. In May 2022 he was presented with the Elio Pagliarani Award for Lifetime Achievement in poetry. Today he divides his life between New York and Milano.
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Photo credit: Prof. Luigi Ballerini by Charles H Traub
Main photo: Lorenzo Da Ponte. Source:Wikipedia
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There are many Italian women whose contribution towards shaping history will forever be remembered. In contemporary Italian society, some continue in the footsteps of their predecessors by doing great things and inspiring Italian girls to be better. From past to future, we will put the spotlight on 4 of them, that you may not know so well. Starting with Maria Montessori, a doctor, educator, and entrepreneur, who lived from 1870 to 1952. She was one of the first women to graduate in Medicine in Italy and created the philosophy behind the renowned Montessori school system. Equally exemplary is the life of Rita Levi Montalcini, who died ten years ago at 103, one of Italy’s top neurologists, even though her family had been forced to flee Italy when Germany invaded. In 1986 she won the Nobel Prize. Among contemporary Italian heroines, Samantha Cristoforetti, born in Milan in 1977, is the first Italian woman astronaut. In 2014 she spent 200 days in space and she is currently in training for a new mission, which is scheduled for 2022. Even younger, Chiara Ferragni, 35, is a famous blogger, fashion influencer, model and businesswoman. Her successful story has been the first case study that Harvard has done on a blogger.
Chiara Pasqualetti Johnson is an Italian journalist who writes about travel, art, and lifestyle for several magazines (Dove, Bell’Italia, Arte, Antiquariato, Vogue). She is an art history graduate. She has edited books and modern art history series for Electa and Rizzoli. In 2018 she published The Most Influential Women of Our Time (White Star Editions), a best-selling volume dedicated to the most influential female figures of the 20th Century, which has been translated into 12 languages. Her last book was Coco Chanel. Revolutionary Woman. In 2021 she was listed among the 100 Wonder Women of the year by Forbes Italia, a compilation of women who have shown outstanding leadership and creativity. In autumn 2022 she will publish her new book, Together, dedicated to the 50 most influential contemporary women in the world. She writes and works in Milan.
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Mina (Anna Maria Mazzini, born Lombardy, 1940) is an Italian popular music icon who throughout her sixty-year-long career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings. She is one of the best-loved popular music stars in Italy and abroad, with a large fan base across Europe, Asia, and South America. Her career began in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite having retired from public appearances at the end of the 1970s, Mina remains popular and successful today, and continues to release new albums that consistently debut in the number one spot of the Italian charts. Her popularity with Italian audiences can perhaps be explained whilst Mina is first and foremost a popular music star, she has also been a film star and a television personality during different phases of her career. She has advertised successful Italian brands on television, and she has been a magazine writer and agony aunt. She has thus become a household name in Italy. In this talk, we will discover precisely what kind of a star Mina is and what she signifies for audiences today. We will explore how her status as a diva has evolved during her career, how she has come to be a timeless icon of Italian popular music, and what she reveals about Italian culture and society from the 1950s to the present day.
FEATURING: Susanna Paisio, singer-songwriter and actress.
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Since it was founded in 1941, the British-Italian Society has worked to promote knowledge and understanding in the UK of Italian culture, including Italy’s history, institutions, way of life, language and wider contribution to civilisation.
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