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  • Art & Culture

    Carmen and Elettra Stop in Chicago

    Natalia Nebel(June 18, 2010)
    Italian singer and songwriter Carmen Consoli stopped by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on Tuesday, June 15 to greet fans and play a sampling of her new songs from her seventh album, ELETTRA. The theme of ELETTRA is love in its many manifestations: filial, platonic, romantic; and love in its varying emotional tones: conflicted love, egotistical love that destroys rather than nurtures, and love that has the power to heal
  • Events: Reports

    Drawing and Designing the Italian Way. Chicago Welcomes Lorenzo Mattotti

    Natalia Nebel(June 08, 2010)
    The artwork of Lorenzo Mattotti, illustrator, comics and animation artist, on view at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago through July 30. Mattotti's first solo exhibit in Chicago features the entire spectrum of his work from his thirty year long career: his high fashion illustrations for Vanity Fair; his renderings of New York City and Rio de Janeiro's lively streets; his blissfully intertwined couples and solitary readers; his surreal landscapes and assorted, curious and colorful night creatures.
  • Art & Culture

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The "Muti Era" Begins

    Natalia Nebel(March 02, 2010)
    The era of Riccardo Muti at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra officially began on Thursday, February 25 at Orchestra Hall’s intimate Grainger Ballroom where the Maestro held a press conference before an enthusiastic audience of journalists, donors, and representatives from Chicago’s most important cultural institutions, including Director Tina Cervone of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago