For the first time ever, a selection of 45 paintings and tapestries from the famed Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, is coming to the James A. Michener Art Museum, US. About 45 minutes northeast of the city and can be reached conveniently from New York City or Washington DC. The exhibition “Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery” is opened April 21, 2012 through August 10, 2012.
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Ferragamo store on Fifth Avenue in New York
Salvatore Ferragamo, one of the most recognized luxury brands in the world, announces the reopening of its flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York, which has been completely renovated. With an area of approximately 20,000 square feet, the New York store is now the Italian Maison’s largest mono-brand store in the world.
Amerigo’s America opens Wednesday in NYC
The Florentines Around the World Association and the European School of Economics, in collaboration with the Assembly of Tuscans Around the World and St John’s University, is organising an exhibition entitled “Amerigo’s America – Florence and the Merchants of the New World” dedicated to Amerigo Vespucci on the anniversary of the fifth centenary of his death.
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.
Simone Martini at auction in New York
Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Simone Martini and Andrea della Robbia: these are some of the great artists that will be offered at Sotheby’s in New York January 26, 2012. This is valuable paintings belonging to the collection of Italian paintings of Lady Forte, wife of Charles Forte, the founder of the luxury hotel.
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