An update about the new Italian American Museum in New York
Dear friends, we are pleased to report that we have topped off our new building and the new brick facade is being applied. Due to COVID-19 we have postponed all of our fundraising activities for the year including our annual Golf Classic and Ambasciatore Awards dinner. However, we ask that you be as generous as possible during this time of our Annu...
Magazzino Italian Art Announces Plans to Expand Museum with New Pavilion
Today, Magazzino Italian Art announces plans to expand the museum campus in Cold Spring, NY, with the acquisition of 3.5 acres of additional land and creation of a new 13,000-square-foot pavilion for special exhibitions, and public and educational programs. Designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, the latter of whom...
‘Team Marco’ filmmakers to host Staten Island celebration to mark movie’s nationwide release
To kick off the nationwide release of “Team Marco,” a family film shot entirely on Staten Island, the filmmakers will host a virtual event benefiting the St. George Theatre’s relief fund, which was established in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Boro Five will present the “Staten Island Celebration” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. T...
Announcing the Vivo-Fruttauro Collection
In July 2016, Lisa Giordano of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, arrived at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s midtown Manhattan offices bearing a cache of letters written in Italian. Earlier that same year, on a Saturday morning in March, she had come upon the letters strewn on the sidewalk in front of a brownstone on Degraw Street, betwee...
A Race to Save the ‘Lady of Sing Sing’
Maria Barbella was part of the Great Arrival of Italian immigrants to the United States. In 1892, Maria, age 22, and her family left their native Basilicata for New York City where they settled in Mulberry Bend, part of the infamous Five Points neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. Barbella, like many of her contemporaries, went to work in the sweat ind...
La Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU compie 30 anni di cultura a New York!
Domani, 13 novembre, sarà il 30esimo anniversario della Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò della New York University, che è anche sede del Dipartimento di Studi Italiani della NYU, e che fu inaugurata nel West Village di Manhattan il 13 novembre 1990. Situata sulla 24 West 12th Street, tra la Fifth e la Sixth Avenue, la Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò nacqu...
Before There Was Venice...
November 19th • 7:00-9:00pm EDT. Organized by casa Belvedere. with Anita Sanseverino and Louis Leonini. Although the city of Venice is the most well-known part of the Veneto, there are islands, towns and cities that are far older,with a history all their own. In this presentation Louis and Anita will explore the histories of great cities such as Ve...
Francesco Simeti: Unrelenting
November 17, 2020, 5-7pm. Consulate General of Italy, New York. The NYC Mayor's Office for International Affairs, Consulate General of Italy in New York, and Magazzino Italian Art are pleased to present an outdoor screening of Francesco Simeti’s video work Unrelenting (2020). The artwork will be projected in largescale on the exterior of the Consul...
Buffalo Common Council votes unanimously to rename Columbus Park to Prospect Park
The Buffalo Common Council voted unanimously Tuesday to rename Columbus Park, which is located along Porter Avenue and Niagara Street, to Prospect Park. The Christopher Columbus statue was removed from the park in July on orders from Mayor Byron Brown and agreement of the common council. The Federation of Italian-American Societies of Western New Y...
On Veterans Day 2020, talking to a veteran born in 1920
Wednesday is Veterans Day, when America remembers those who served in its armed forces. Frank Caruso served in World War II and Wednesday, just eight days shy of his 100th birthday, his memory still serves him remarkably well. He sits in his wheelchair in The Fountains at RiverVue retirement home in Tuckahoe beside Anna, his wife of 72 years – to...
Loved and Lost: Joe Scuilla was part of a Coney Island love story that lasted 78 years
his story is part of Loved and Lost, a statewide media collaboration working to celebrate the life of every New Jersey resident who died of COVID-19. To learn more and submit a loved one's name to be profiled, visit lovedandlostnj.com. For Joseph Scuilla and Madeleine DeMaio, it was love at first sight — his, that is, of her. At the time, he was 5...
Chazz Palminteri honored for his support for a saint
Out there… Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri and his wife, Gianna, of Bedford, N.Y., were thanked for their charitable work with the Cabrini Mission Foundation at a reception at the Bedford Playhouse in Bedford, N.Y. After their daughter Gabriella led a high school project to donate supplies to the foundation last year, the Palminteri...