“Brunelleschi and the Dome of Florence Cathedral”
Friday 3/13/20. 6:30PM-8:00PM. $100/person. Eataly NYC Flatiron, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Lecture & Dinner: “Brunelleschi and the Dome of Florence Cathedral”. The Dome of Florence Cathedral, which was designed and constructed by Filippo Brunelleschi between 1420 and 1436, spans an octagonal space of 143ft. 6in., and is still the larges...
Wells Italian & Art Students Collaborate on Venetian Mask Project
Surrounded by brightly colored, glittering masks, Henry H. Wells art students stood before Deborah Velazquez's Italian class sharing the inspiration behind the Venetian Carnevale masks they had created. The presentation was a celebration of Italian culture and a collaboration between Velazquez's Italian students and art students taught by Irene Oth...
Peter Salvatore: Generous, patriotic. And he loved a party. The philanthropist dies at 82.
Peter Salvatore was always ready to throw a party at his elegant Shore Acres home, with its panoramic view of the Narrows and endless rooms filled with antiques and artwork collected by his wife, Gail. In winter, it was a lavish New Year’s Eve black-tie bash with a seven-course meal. In summer, it was a Fourth of July extravaganza with a patriotic...
A Royal Visit to “Little Campania” in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Wednesday evening, HRH Princess Beatrice of Bourbon Two Sicilies was warmly welcomed by members of the Federazione delle Associazioni della Campania USA in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Escorted by the US Delegation of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, Her Royal Highness visited the San Cono Society and Our Lady of the Snow Society c...
Propaganda. The Art of Political Indoctrination
Wednesday 03/04/2020 - 6:00pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011. PROPAGANDA. The Art of Political Indoctrination in Italy, 1902-1950. Works from the Fondazione Massimo and Sonia Cirulli. Curated by Nicola Lucchi, CUNY Queens College. Opening: March 4, 2020. 6:00pm Exhibition viewing. 6:30pm Panel Discussion featuring...
Staten Island Nightlife: An evening of dining and dancing celebrates romance at Osteria Bocelli
To mark the most romantic day of the year, Osteria Bocelli celebrated Valentine’s Day with a unique evening of dinner and dancing to the sounds of the Alex Leonard Trio, where swing and jazz music from the great American songbook reverberated from every corner of the room. Guests indulged in a divine four course dinner a la executive chef, Stefano...
Personal Effects. A Celebration of the Life and Work of Louise DeSalvo
Monday, 03/02/2020 - 6:30pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011. On the occasion of the publication of the paperback edition of "Personal Effects Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo" (2019, Fordham University Press). Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors...
Il Gen. Micale consegna a Panico il nuovo Calendario storico dell’Arma dei Carabinieri 2020
In occasione di un incontro tenutosi nell’ufficio del Generale dei Carabinieri Gino Micale, Addetto alla Difesa presso le Nazioni Unite, Alfonso Panico, ex Vice Console On. d’Italia e Consigliere dell’ Associazione Nazionale Carabinieri Sezione di New York, ha ricevuto dal Gen. Micale il nuovo calendario storico dell’Arma dei Carabinieri 2020. Il c...
The Cooper Union Showcases Costantino Nivola’s Impact on New York City
The strength of Nivola in New York: Figure in Field, running until March 15 at the Cooper Union, lies not in treasures borrowed from distant museums but in the focus on much unlikelier sites: in Brooklyn, Tottenville, Brighton Beach, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and in Jamaica, Queens. Of course, there are excellent, rarely seen models, paintings, and sketc...
Nedda Casei, Mezzo-Soprano Turned Labor Leader, Dies at 87
Nedda Casei, who in the 1960s and ’70s could be reliably heard as Suzuki, Maddalena, Lola and other bread-and-butter mezzo-soprano characters at the Metropolitan Opera before transforming herself into a pathbreaking labor leader, died on Jan. 20 in hospice care in Manhattan. She was 87. A niece, Janice Arponen, said the cause was a stroke. Ms. Case...
The Changing Face of New York’s Little Italy
Little Italy, a neighbourhood in downtown New York City, was once a sprawling, cacophonous bustle of Italians who had left their homeland to capitalise on the promise of the American Dream. Though they were not the only— or first—nationality to populate lower Manhattan’s tenement buildings, their vivid culture soon left an indelible mark. But as th...
Venice - The Most Improbable of Cities
Tuesday, February 25th. 7:00pm - 9:00pm. The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere - 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. REGISTER NOW. Venezia is Queen of the Adriatic, La Serenissima, mercantile and maritime Republic of 1,000 years, a vast museum, a triumph of human will over Nature, once a beehive of espionage, the luxury & pleasur...