| NEWS FROM LA PIETRA DIALOGUES |
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| Regarding Women in the Acton Collection - Exhibition at Villa La Pietra |
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Regarding Women in the Acton Collection, group exhibition of contemporary artists Zoe Buckman, Alessandra Capodacqua, Patricia Cronin, Bärbel Reinhard, and Deb Willis was inaugurated on June 26 at Villa La Pietra, NYU Florence.
Using the Acton Collection as both a productive and discursive site, this exhibition examines the depiction of women with a transhistorical perspective, adding into the Villa’s collection contemporary responses by artists and poets in an effort to investigate challenge and expand upon received art historical categories of iconography, patronage, material and function. The exhibition will be open until December 14, 2017.
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| Announcing LPD´s Spring 2017 Calendar of Events and Opportunities! |
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LPD is happy to announce its Spring Calendar of events and special opportunities for NYU Florence students. This semester we will be exploring issues of gender, power and representation evident in the Acton Collection of Villa La Pietra and searching for reverberations of this visual history in contemporary artistic, social and political contexts. Renowned professor and public intellectual Anthony Appiah will talk to us about the complex and sometimes mistaken nature of our identities in areas like culture, color, country and creed. Journalist Imma Vitelli will return to NYU Florence to give voice to the stories of Kurdish Female Fighters in Syria. And many more.... |
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| Searching for the Contemporary in Florence |
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The goal of LPD’s project “Mapping Contemporary Florence” is to find contemporary art in Florence and provide a resource for others to expand their cultural experience in the city beyond the Renaissance.
Interested in Contemporary Art? A great way to stay updated on events in Florence, submit your own work and see snapshots of Contemporary Florence is to follow the blog. |
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| GLOBAL PIAZZA |
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| Issa Touma wins British Film Institute Award for his Film ´9 Days from My Window in Aleppo´ |
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Syrian Photographer Issa Touma has won the British Film Institute´s London Film Festival Award for Best Short Film 2016 for ´9 Days from My Window in Aleppo´. Touma presented the film in his Dialogue at NYU Florence in Fall 2015 and talked about the conditions on the ground in his native city in a gripping Dialogue with students and members of the Florence community. Read More... |
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| GLS/LPD Alumni Madison McCormick and Claudia Cereceda participate in round table on refugee crisis |
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NYU GLS/LPD Alumni Claudia Cereceda and Madison McCormick participated in a screening and round table discussion of NYU alumni Maximilian Guen´s film Refuge to raise awareness for the European refugee crisis and was congratulated by LS Dean Frederic Schwarzbach on his blog for their excellent work! So proud! Read More... |
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| The European Parliament Liaison Office with U.S. Congress Internships in Washington D.C. |
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The European Parliament Office in Washington D.C. is offering US citizens to apply for a full-time internship. Complement your studies in international and Global Affairs with a genuinely international internship. Read More... |
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| Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo´ - New York University |
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Get updates and follow the events of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo´ from New York University NY. The programs deal with literature, cinema and both political and social reflections and involve prominent Italian artists, scholars and politicians in an open dialogue with Americans on Italian life and culture. Most of the events are recorded. See them online at: www.casaitaliananyu.org. Read More... |
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