Rome street artist paints New York
New York was given a touch of Italian colour this month when Rome-based artist Alice Pasquini painted a narrative triptych across its boroughs during a two-week painting programme. Pasquini, whose street signature is Alicè, has made a career out of street art, painting mixed-media pieces and large-scale murals over the past decade and on d...
Staten Island Columbus Day parade to be replaced with Italian-American culture fest set for Oct. 11
Come Columbus Day weekend, Staten Islanders can prime their appetites for a fresh, new outdoor festival. On Saturday, Oct. 11, the Borough President's Office announced the inaugural "Rome through Richmond Town: A Celebration of Italian Culture," a six-hour, free fete to all things Italian that's intended to replace the New Dorp Lane parade tra...
Major new installation “Unframed – Ellis Island” now open
November marks the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Ellis Island immigration facility. From 1892 until the center's closing in 1954, the small island in New York harbor served as the official entry and processing point for over 12 million immigrants. It has been estimated that over 40 percent of Americans can trace their ancestry through Elli...
New York Festival of Song Presents 'Bel Canto/Can Belto' for Emerging Artist Series, Exploration of Italian Song
The New York Festival of Song will be presenting Bel Canto/Can Belto as a part of its Emerging Artist Series and exploration of Italian song. The show marks NYFOS’s seventh annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Bel Canto/Can Belto will be an exploration of Italian song. Five young artists will take the a...
La nuova Little Italy di New York
di Andrea Marinelli «Little Italy sta diventando sempre più piccola», scriveva il New York Times all’inizio del 2011. «Lo sconfinamento iniziato decenni fa – con Chinatown che si allargava a nord, SoHo che si espandeva da ovest e con altre aree che venivano elegantemente ribattezzate NoLiTa (North of Little Italy) e NoHo – sembra ormai com...
Treasure Hunt: Lights, Camera, Action
31 May 2015, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PMDopo il successo della Caccia al Tesoro Italiano dello scorso anno, in occasione delle celebrazioni per la Festa della Repubblica 2015, il Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York sponsorizza la Treasure Hunt: Lights, Camera, Action, una vera e propria maratona fotografica orgnizzata da Elastica e dall'Associazione...
International Prize Gradiva 2015 for Italian Poetry
October 22 (Thursday) 4:00 pm. International Prize Gradiva 2015 for Italian PoetryThis event is to celebrate the third International Poetry Prize, devoted to contemporary Italian poetry. President: Luigi Fontanella. Members of the International Jury: Alessandro Carrera, Milo De Angelis, Luigi Fontanella, Irene Marchegiani, Sylvia Morandina, El...
Rockland Sons of Italy Lodge 2176 Awards Scholarships to Area Students
The Rockland Sons of Italy Lodge 2176 awards scholarships at the end of each school year to students in Rockland County who have excelled in a particular area and demonstrate a strong ability to continue on to a successful college career. On May 18th they presented the following awards: Charter Member Award for Academic Excellence: Jo...
If Christine Quinn wins City Hall, her smart but quiet wife, Kim Catullo, will be thrust into the limelight as the first lesbian First Lady of New York City
By Heidi Evans When a matchmaking friend of Kim Catullo, a Manhattan lawyer, wanted to set her up with City Councilwoman Christine Quinn, Catullo was polite but blunt:"No thanks," she said. For Catullo, a deeply shy and private person, the idea of dating a glad-handing politician was precisely what she wasn't interested in. Read more &n...
Postcards of the Mezzogiorno: tradizione e modernità
By Beatrice Bondi Venerdì sera presso l'Italian American Museum di Mulberry Street, il fotogiornalista Joseph M. Calisi ha presentato una selezione di scatti della città di Bari e delle zone limitrofe, facendo un breve excursus storico sulla regione e mostrando le bellezze architettoniche, artistiche e naturali che la contraddistinguono. Calisi,...
Petition to save Rizzoli
Please follow the link below to sign a petition asking the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate 31 West 57th street, an individual and interior landmark. Click here to sign the petition to designate 31 West 57th Street as an Individual and Interior Landmark (Change.org) The Rizzoli Bookstore building is an icon of New Y...
Italian Art Gets Cozy Inside New SoHo Gallery
by Stephanie Simon When we think of great Italian art most people are familiar with the Italian renaissance, artists like Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Rafael. Well now 20th century art is having a renaissance of its own with the new Center for Italian Modern Art or CIMA. "The idea came from the experience I had in states that many p...