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The Museum of Modern Art will host “Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan”, a retrospective exhibition on the leading artist of the Arte Povera movement which will be on display beginning July 1st to October 1st,2012.This retrospective, organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London, will be the largest presentation outside of Italy of works by Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) to date.

MOOD FILM and Kairos Italy TheaterpresentWAR (UERRA)
a short film byP A O L O S A S S A N E L L IwithDINO ABBRESCIA TOTÒ ONNISANGELA IURILLI

The Italian Cultural Institute presents the youngest “Strega
Prize” winner ever, Paolo Giordano, and his best selling debut novel The
Solitude of Prime Numbers.

Hailed by the New York Times as “Mesmerizing…” and by the
New York Times Book Review as “…a finely tuned machine powered by the perverse
mechanics of need”, The Solitude of Prime Numbers explores the
loneliness of human condition and how those who suffer it to the extreme
survive.

THE MADONNAof Pietranico
A press conference to present one of the most important restorations of Abruzzo’s artistic legacy after the 2009 earthquake.
Screening of Madonna of Pietranico, the restauration and reconstruction by Michele Bevilacqua.
April 6 2011, 6pm @ Italian Cultural Insitute

COME UNDONE (Cosa voglio di piu’) by Silvio Soldini

April 9, 2011 1pm @ Czech Center New York at Bohemian National Hall

How public policies have developed in major areas in unified Italy. Craig Calhoun, Jonathan Cole, John A. Davis, David I. Kertzer, Charles S. Maier, Andrew Moravcsik, Romano Prodi, Ian Shapiro, will discuss with the Representatives of the main Italian political think tanks.

RAPSODIA SATANICA by Nino Oxilia
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy

Sun, April 17, 2:00pm @ Museum of the Moving Image

A QUIET LIFE (UNA VITA TRANQUILLA) by Claudio Cupellini

April 22-23-24, 2011 – Tribeca Film Festival

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Although well-known influential as a political theorist in Italy, until
recently Piero Gobetti (1901-1925) has been relatively unknown in the
English-speaking world. Gobetti wore many hats: he was founder and
editor of two influential political reviews, Energie nove and
Rivoluzione Liberale; a political theorist whose revolutionary
liberalism was grounded in an ethics of self-emancipation; an ardent
anti-fascism whose untimely death at the age of 24 was a result of a
beating he had suffered at the hands of fascist thugs acting on the