The exhibition “American Dreamers. Reality and Imagination in Contemporary American art” at Strozzina (Palazzo Strozzi), Florence, Italy (9 March–15 July 2012, opening 8 March 2012, 6 pm) comprises a reflection on the work of artists who use fantasy, imagination and dreams to build alternative worlds to the increasingly complex reality of life today.
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Int’l Feline Exhibition at the Fortezza da Basso
After the success of 2010, returns to the Fortezza da Basso, the International Feline Exhibition, scheduled to Padiglione Rastriglia on Saturday 4 and Sunday, February 5.
“Maggio” for the victims of the earthquake in Tokyo
After lived in first person during the tour (later suspended) last year, the tragedy of Japan devastated by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear contamination, the musicians of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino support the victims of the catastrophe.
Shock calendar presented in Florence
Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani launched a calendar featuring 12 penis close-ups in an ad for a group of companies that make naturally-tanned leather. The presentation took place yerday in Florence, Italy, attended by famous Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi, who said that people should “de-dramatise” sex and put an end to “bigotry”.
Jazz, a Florentine play in New York
He consolidated boundings for months, carried on negotiations and agreements, and at the end he reached to gather around him the “top” of jazz in the Big Apple. Now the team of “all star” is done, and from 23th to 30th January in New York pianist Fabrizio Mocata – Sicilian by birth, Florentine by adoption – will record an album that promises to be one of the most interesting of the new record’s years.
Sales and Magi on Epiphnay
Shopping and historical events on Epiphnay in Florence, Italy. Even this year to celebrate the feast, January 6, the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence (Italy) organizes a reenactment of the Magi. It’s a shopping day too.
Read moreA concert to raise funds for Dynamo Camp
A charity event for Dynamo Camp in Pistoia at the Teatro Verdi in Florence with the music of Abba interpreted by Super Trouper. The show “Mama 4 children” will be held Saturday, January 14 at 9 pm. Dynamo Camp (www.dynamocamp.org) is a facility house for chronic or terminal children. It is part of the series of International Camps “A Hole in the Wall Camp” taken by Paul Newman, who has given them all the proceeds of its artistic and commercial activities.Harvard brings in Florence the “Missa Florentina”
Will be performed for the first time in six hundred years, in extended version, the “Missa Florentina”, a liturgy composed entirely of fourteenth-century by Florentine authors.
Read moreWinter sales in Tuscany begin on January 5
Begin on January 5 in Florence and in the entire Tuscany the winter sales. Do not miss the opportunity to visit the showrooms in the city center and take advantage of discounts and deals offered by factory outlets and the outlets of the great designers.
Read moreThe Magi come to town with 700 listed
Even this year to celebrate the feast of Epiphany, Friday, January 6, the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence (Italy) organizes a reenactment of the Magi.
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