Art of the Italian Churches
It was an amazing achievement, we can say in retrospect – the construction and decoration of so many splendid Catholic churches between 1830 and 1940 throughout New York City and its surroundings. Italian churches occupy a special place here. Relative latecomers to the church building movement , the Italian immigrants succeeded in crafting a series...
AIAE 22nd Anniversary (1997-2019) Awards and Scholarships Ceremony
On May 3, 2019 the Italian Consulate in New York has hosted the Association of Italian American Educators Awards and Scholarships for student awardees to study in Pisa, Italy and experience the Italian Language and Culture. The student scholarship awardees have been honored by outstanding Italian American leaders who have demonstrated their individ...
Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Thursday, May 9, 2019, 6pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036. Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University. By examining Italy’s long history of worldwide emigration in light of the country’s own colonial legacies and the contemporary transnational migrations directed tow...
Reconsidering Arte Povera Lecture Series May 18 - June 15, 2019
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation (2700 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY 10516) invites you to a four-part lecture series exploring new insights into Arte Povera, featuring Francesco Guzzetti, Scholar-in-Residence at Magazzino Italian Art; Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY; Anne Rorimer, independent scholar...
Exhibition Opening of "Goombarooch Resignified": Works by John Avelluto
On view May 7–September 13, 2019. GALLERY HOURS: MONDAY–FRIDAY, 9AM–5PM. Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 6pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036 Visual artist John Avelluto revels in mash-ups of sounds, images, products, and ideas where Italy and the United States converge. H...
Amore Opera To Close Out Tenth Anniversary Season With Verdi's UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Amore Opera concludes its 2018-19 season at the Riverside Theatre at Riverside Church (91 Claremont Ave, New York, NY 10027) with a production of Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, sung in its original Italian; and with a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe, performed entirely by children. Excelling in its mission to discover and pres...
Gianluca Guidi - Peperoncino Jazz Festival
Gianluca Guidi, Italian singer and actor, performs at the Institute opening the first edition of the "Peperoncino Jazz Festival - New York Session", which takes place from May 20 to May 26 in several locations around the city, including the Birdland Theater. The "Peperoncino Jazz Festival", now in its XVIII edition, takes place during the summe...
The Legacy of Louise DeSalvo
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 6pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. In 1996, Louise DeSalvo, acclaimed modernist scholar and Virginia Woolf biographer, published the memoir Vertigo, "the unlikely narrative of how a working-class Italian American girl became a critic and writer." Almost ten...
IDACO nyc - Italian Dance Connection Festival
IDACO nyc is an opportunity for both Italian and New York artists who want to take part in a dialogue with Italian culture, to explore and share their unique works through movement, choreography and visual arts. IDACO nyc aims at encouraging artistic research and network building, crossing cultural boundaries and cultivating a sense of shared ident...
Little Italy to celebrate City Council proclamation this June
The Little Italy neighborhood is gearing up for a big honor. This June, Rochester City Council will officially recognize the Little Italy Historic District on Lyell Avenue. In honor of the proclamation, Little Italy will hold a “Street Festa” on June 2 from noon to 8 p.m. “We’re just going to let the community enjoy themselves with some Italian mus...
Frank Duci, Schenectady's longest-serving mayor, dies at 97
Frank Duci, Schenectady's longest-serving mayor and first Italian-American mayor, has passed away at the age of 97, officials confirmed Sunday. Duci served as mayor from 1972 to 1983 and again from 1992 to 1995 and was involved in local Schenectady politics for more than four decades. He passed away Sunday morning in Florida, his Corporation Counse...
Paola Pivi and Her Baby Gang of Bears
“When I came to this gallery to see the space the first time, I had this image of many, many, many colorful baby bears,” says Paola Pivi, gazing out at the 70 brightly colored feathered polar bear sculptures situated around the entire top floor of Perrotin in the Lower East Side. “Basically, I saw this; it just came to me.” The Italian artist imagi...