Massimo Vignelli, a Visionary Designer Who Untangled the Subway, Dies at 83
Massimo Vignelli, an acclaimed graphic designer who gave shape to his spare, Modernist vision in book covers and shopping bags, furniture and corporate logos, even a church and a New York City subway map that enchanted aesthetes and baffled straphangers, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. His death, after a long illness,...
Tumulto futurista a New York
di Gloria Schiavi Sono stata inondata di parole, suggestioni, frasi troncate e destrutturate, in quella stanza senza luci o macchinazioni sceniche che riproducessero la dinamicità e il movimento suggeriti dal titolo dell'evento Gran serata futurista. Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, regista e attore unico, l'uomo monocromatico in bianco e ner...
Stolen statue, painting returned to Italian government in NY
Decades after being stolen in Italy, an ancient statuette and an 18th-century painting were returned to the country's government Tuesday after turning up in New York. The handover marked the latest case of U.S. authorities helping Italy and other countries reclaim what they see as cultural patrimony. Read more S...
Italian sculpture could shatter auction record
A sculpture by Italian artist Alberto Giacometti could break the record for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture at auction. The sculpture, "L'homme au doigt (Pointing Man)" is heading to auction May 11 at Christie's auction house in New York and expected to fetch an estimated $130 million. The bronze sculpture stands 5 feet, 1...
Contemporary Authors: Celebrating the Heritage by Mario Toglia
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 2:00pmWestchester Italian Cultural CenterOne Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY 10707 United States Mario Toglia, the son of Calitri-born immigrants, grew up in Brooklyn, NY and attended local Catholic schools, including Fordham University School of Education. He taught Romance languages in the New York City public school...
Italian-Americans live longer thanks to this diet
It's 3 p.m. on Arthur Avenue in The Bronx, and Filomena Magavero settles in for a late lunch inside the venerable Mario's, a favorite Italian restaurant on this strip of Old World butcher shops, fish stores and bakeries. She sips a gin martini ("Is there any other kind?" Magavero gamely asks), and orders filet of flounder oreganata. "Fish...
Maestro D’Arte Francesco Santoro’s Renaissance art classes and lectures are in full swing!
NOIAW member and Maestro D'Arte Francesco Santoro's Renaissance art classes and lectures are in full swing for the third Summer in New York City! This year's art class in Greenwich Village has an excellent group of students – some returning and some new. The returning students have shown their dedication and enthusiasm for this master-apprentice s...
Columbus Day parade returns
Cross Bay Boulevard will once again play host to a Columbus Day parade next weekend for the first time in two years. The annual event, celebrating the neighborhood's Italian-American heritage and contributions made by Italian-Americans in society. The parade kicks off at noon on Sunday, Sept. 29 and will march along Cross Bay Boulevard....
Painting in Italy During the Risorgimento Presented at Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, 4/22
On Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m. Staten Island Museum Art Curator Robert Bunkin will present "I Macchiaioli: Painting in Italy During the Risorgimento." I Macchiaioli was a group of painters working in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century, including such painters as Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Giuseppe Abbati, Vito D'Anc...
Meet Laurie Fabiano, Author of Best-Selling Novel Elizabeth Street
Laurie Fabiano's dramatic tale of survival against the odds in New York City's rough and tumble tenements at the turn of the twentieth century is based on her own family history. The novel's protagonist, Giovanna, immerses herself in the shadowy world of extortion and murder to fight the Black Hand, a precursor to the mafia. Join the Staten Island...
Aesthetics of fonts and paper. A special lecture by an Italian letterpress-printer - November 21, 2014 at 6:00 pm
An event in partnership with the Tallone publishing house. Featuring a Q&A with Elisa and Eleonora Tallone Screening of: Il mestiere del libro [The Book Handicraft] (2007, 31 min.) In Italian with English subtitles In the digital age, the visual and tactile delights experienced by reading books set by hand in type...
From the Stones to Sunday dinner, proud to be Italian
Poughkeepsie native and Wappingers Falls resident John Regan has played bass with Ace Frehley of Kiss and Peter Frampton. He has recorded with the Rolling Stones and once auditioned for that band's full-time bass slot. He does, however, take an enormous amount of pride in the days he spent playing local clubs around the Hudson Valley....