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  • Facts & Stories

    IACC Elects New President. Alberto Milani, Current Buccellati Inc. CEO

    I. I.(April 03, 2015)
    Mr. Milani will join the Executive Committee and provide leadership to the association between meetings of the membership Assembly and Board of Directors. Together with Mr. Franco De Angelis, Secretary General, Mr. Milani will work to ensure that the policy platform, vision, mission and strategic directions of the Chamber’s Board of Directors create concrete operational decisions.
  • Facts & Stories

    Pizza Makers from Pizzeria Brandi in Naples Celebrates the Expo in Milan

    Emily Hayes(March 27, 2015)
    Pizza makers from the Pizzeria Brandi in Naples designed a pizza to celebrate the Expo in Milan, to go with the theme "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life." Pizza is the perfect choice, because it is an iconic food that reminds consumers of the importance of Italian agriculture. Pizzeria Brandi is also supposedly the place where Italy’s iconic margherita pizza was first created. Originally, pizza was known as a dish for poor people, sold in the street. The story goes that in June of 1889, to honor the Queen of the consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, the Neapolitan pizza maker Raffaele Esposito created “Pizza Margherita.
  • Facts & Stories

    The World at EXPO 2015 in Milan

    Judith Harris(March 24, 2015)
    After six years of work and planning, EXPO 2015 opens in Milan in less than five weeks, and you can almost hear the organizers’ sighs of relief as work on the pavilions is being completed, and the goal of selling 10 million tickets before its official opening May 1 looms within sight. Organizers of this ambitious world’s fair on the theme “Nourish the Planet, Energy for Life” report that distributors, travel agencies worldwide and on-line booking agencies have already acquired 8.5 million tickets.
  • Art & Culture

    All the World’s Futures: The 56th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

    Mila Tenaglia(March 13, 2015)
    In view of the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale, which will open to the public on May 9th, the President of the Biennale, Paolo Baratta and the curator Okwui Enwezor presented 'All the World’s Futures' at the Italian Cultural Institute. 89 National Participations will be exhibiting in the Historical Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice. For the first time Grenada, Mauritius, Mongolia, Republic of Mozambique and Republic of Seychelles will join the Biennale of Venice.
  • Art & Culture

    Auctioning Off Street Art

    Mila Tenaglia(March 13, 2015)
    The works of Banksy, Shepard Farey (Obey), and Keith Haring, auctioned at the Major Street Art Auction in Miami. The street art auction, which featured not only the greatest names in international street art but also the new generations of artists coming from Italy, France, and London, just ended. The FAAM - Fine Auction Art Miami - the most important auction house in Florida, involved art charities such as the Arts & Business Council and Guntram Von Habsburg. An artistic, cultural, and social display of emotion and human relations.
  • Life & People

    NYC. The Society of Foreign Consuls Honors the Work of 20 Women

    Natasha Lardera(March 12, 2015)
    On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, twenty women from different countries were recognized by the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York City. These women were awarded for their outstanding achievements and contribution to community empowerment in the USA.Among them, an Italian powerful woman, Monica M. Mandelli, Managing Director at Golden Sachs, led by Italy's Consul General in New York, the Hon. Natalia Quintavalle.

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