Long Island City artist captures street scenes in NYC and Italy
Her bags are packed and she’s ready to go. Long Island City-based artist and fine arts educator, Clare Stokolosa, is returning to her favorite Tuscan hilltop town in Italy, which overlooks a picture-worthy valley with breath-taking vistas of rolling hills and mountains. She says the color and light are inspirational for painting. “I was introduced...
Exhibit Opening- Fashions and Faces of the Regions of Italy
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is celebrating 100 years as a museum. This small home on Tompkins Ave. has been a beacon of light for history, learning and the Italian culture. To commemorate this monumental achievement, a series of exhibits will be highlighted. They will include all of the regions of Italy with a colorful display of their regional d...
Vatican Museums loan Leonardo da Vinci work for special anniversary
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a painting by the artist that will draw crowds but also pay solemn tribute to the larger-than-life Italian Renaissance painter, architect and inventor. “Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness” - an unfinished painting on wood on loan f...
Photos: Thousands Cheer The Chaotic Spectacle Of Williamsburg's Giglio Lift
A Williamsburg tradition since 1903, the Giglio Feast is going on now through Sunday, July 21st on the streets around Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on Havemeyer Street. All the familiar Italian street fair sights and smells are here: zeppoles, cigars, bracciole, beer, sausage & peppers, sucker games, clams, creaky rides, Manhattan Coffee Soda, fa...
Mother Cabrini’s ministry to immigrants called ‘more essential’ than ever
St. Francis Xavier Cabrini took to heart Jesus’ greatest commandment to love God and love one’s neighbor by tending to those most in need — children, the sick, orphans and “most of all” immigrants, said New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan July 13. “Her work still goes on and her work is more essential than ever today,” he said during a celebration o...
A luncheon at Wethersfield to celebrate the ceiling frescoes by Pietro Annigoni
Wethersfield, the estate in Amenia, NY, of the late Chauncey Devereux Stillman(1907-1989), was the setting for a small luncheon on June 22nd celebrating the ceiling frescoes painted there by the celebrated Italian artist Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988). These are the only Annigoni frescoes in the United States. Perhaps best known for his 1955 portrait...
IAWA at New York City Poetry Festival
Saturday, July 27th. 11:00 am. The White Horse - 567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014 IAWA: Italian American Writers Association. Julie Forgione is working on two collections: one of short stories and another of poetry. Mike Fiorito’s book Call Me Guido was just published by Ovunque Siamo Press in 2019. Maria Lisella’s Thieves in the Family was publis...
The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival moves to Niagara Square
The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival is relocating to Niagara Square for the first time in decades. The event organizers decided to make the switch to Niagara Square in order to reconnect Italian Americans to their roots. "What's really cool is it's like a natural piazza here just like in Italy where people would come and gather," organizer Chris...
Festa remains a beloved Schenectady staple
The smell of sausage, peppers, pizza and other Italian food staples wafted down Pleasant Street as people made their way down blocked roads hoisting lawn chairs and pushing baby strollers on their way to the neighborhood's annual three-day celebration: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church's Festa. The annual summer party, which always falls across a wee...
The Giglio Feast: History, fun facts, and what to expect at this year’s celebration in Brooklyn
On Sunday, thousands of revelers will gather in Williamsburg for a festival full of food, dancing, and live music. Unlike other Brooklyn events, the Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola Feast is based in a tradition that got its start in Italy over 1,000 years ago, with its centerpiece a four-ton 72-foot tower. As part of the neighborho...
"L'America e la Mia Gente" di Mario B. Mignone
L’America e la Mia Gente, novità letteraria fresca di stampa edita da MnM print edizioni, è la prima traduzione italiana dell’opera di Mario B. Mignone (titolo originale: The Story of My People - From Rural Southern Italy to Mainstream America, Bordighera Press 2015). Un’autobiografia e insieme un racconto dell’esperienza di emigrazione vissuta in...
A 72-Foot Spire and a 116-Year-Old Tradition in Need of a Few Brooklyn Hipsters
Seven men — three generations of Brooklyn-bred Italian-Americans — climbed up and down a 72- foot tall aluminum spire as they hoisted a statue of San Paolino, an Italian saint, by rope and pulley to the very top."I haven't been this anxious since my wife was in labor", said Mark Mascioli, 43, as he watched from the ground. "She was the one doing al...