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D’Artagnan at the MOMA: A Testimonial
When the news of D’Artagnan’s work at the Museum of Modern Art broke yesterday, it unleashed an real tsunami of enthusiasm across the whole ICBIE community, with a flurry of triumphant and congratulatory emails flying around the globe. In New York, our stalwart friend Mary Norris went straight from work to the museum, to verify…
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Flying Alitalia? At Least You Can Read About the ICBIE!
One of the clearest indications of an excruciatingly boring flight is when you are so desperate that you read the in-flight magazine, where all the stories of exotic travel and adventures only make your trip to the Midwest seem more mundane. For that very reason, you can’t help envying the travelers whose fate landed them…
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An Official Visit from the Mayor
The previous post bragged about exciting contacts with important people, and among them, the mayor of Salvador João Henrique, who has received us several times in his office at City Hall. Little did I know that, more or less at the same time that I was writing the article, the mayor and several city councilmen…
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D’Artagnan Takes Amsterdam
The D’Artagnan festival in Amsterdam has finished and, thanks to Pietro and Mary Norris, news is trickling through. Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the festival covered a seven day period, with contrasting events held in different places around the city, to illustrate the multi-faceted talents of D’Artagnan. His youthful passion for music was honored…
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D’Artagnan Show in Amsterdam, June 4-10
A large part of the ICBIE’s financial support has come from the paintings of Ele D’Artagnan, the eccentric artist who befriended Pietro from earliest childhood. Pietro inherited all his works when the maestro died in 1987, and since then, he has worked to establish a posthumous reputation for him, as a precious testimonial of the…