Media forum della Niaf: i risultati senza precedenti delle elezioni in Italia spiegati agli americani
Si è svolta mercoledì nell'edificio del New York Times l'edizione 2013 del Frank Guarini/Niaf Media Forum con un tema più che mai attuale "quale è il risultato senza precedenti delle elezioni in Italia, cosa significa per il Paese, l'Europa e il mondo", a cui hanno preso il congressman Frank Guarini e il presidente della Niaf John Viola.Tre i panel...
Francesco Vezzoli Will Move an Entire Church From Italy to MoMA PS1
In May, we informed you that Francesco Vezzoli would be returning to MoCA in 2014 with "The Church of Vezzoli" exhibition. We now know that Vezzoli has planned three separate shows in three different cities (view the trailer for "The Trinity" here), the second of which will take place at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. The artist purchased a...
Geneva Sons of Italy lodges appoint new councils
Two local lodges of the Order Sons of Italy in America installed their new 2014 councils in a joint ceremony on March 13. For the Geneva Men's Lodge 2397, Michael Cutillo was installed as president, while for the GAIL Lodge 2397A, Cindy Durso-Woodhams was installed as president. Read more Source: http://www.fltimes.com &nbs...
Mike Rossetti 2014 Pedulla Award Recipient For the St. Anthony’s Festival
This year's recipient of the St. Anthony's Festival Pedulla Award is Mike Rossetti. The award is given each year by The Pedulla Family is in honor of D.A. Pedulla, who gave so much time and energy to the Festival but always with a smile and sense of humor. The award is to honor a worker of St. Anthony's Festival who displays a sense of hum...
Il film ispirato a Dylan Dog sbarca oltreoceano
Dopo la versione americana del movie di Dylan Dog del 2010, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, arriva a New York la première internazionale di Vittima degli Eventi, il fan movie ideato da Claudio di Biagio e Luca Vecchi che si ispira liberamente al famoso fumetto italiano edito dalla Sergio Bonelli. L'appuntamento è per giovedì 13 novembre alle ore 18:00,...
Mario Fratti interpreting Edoardo de FIlippo - December 02, 2014 at 6:00 pm
In the balmy heat of late '40s of last century in Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years. But no sooner has the priest completed the ceremony, than Filumena makes a miraculous recovery. As he reels in shock, Domenico discovers that th...
Magic Books - The Secret Art of Book Hacking
Friday, March 13, 2015 - 6PMItalian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York TO RSVP PLEASE CLICK HERE We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinemat...
Ecco il nuovo Whitney Museum
Un ritorno a casa: questo per l'architetto Renzo Piano rappresenta il trasferimento del Whitney Museum dalla sede sulla Madison Avenue al nuovo edificio nel cuore del Meatpacking District, a New York. Il nuovo Whitney, a cui sono stati tolti i veli alla presenza dell'archistar genovese che lo ha progettato, della curatrice Donna De Salvo, e del di...
Mayor Luigi De Magistris at the Calandra CUNY on Immigration: Naples Will Never Be a City Intolerant of Race or Culture
by Vincenza Di Maggio "He who loves cannot help but create better societies," said Luigi De Magistris, mayor of Naples, on Thursday evening at the Calandra Italian American Institute of the City of New York, directed by Dean Anthony Tamburri and where Italian-Americans gathered to hear him speak about the controversial issue of immigration...
Italian-American Club of West Haverstraw seeks use of vacant former Stony Point Ambulance Corps HQ
At Tuesday night's Stony Point Town Board meeting, Paul Carlucci of the Italian American Social Club of West Haverstraw pleaded with the Stony Point Ambulance Corps for the use of a vacant building for club meetings. The Italian American Social Club, which has an active presence in the community for generations, recently shut its doors on...
Santa Croce and the Statue of Liberty to become partners
A partnership is being planned to celebrate the sculptural and symbolic connections between Manhattan's Statue of Liberty and Santa Croce's The Liberty of Poetry funerary monument. The striking similarity has long been noted between New York's iconic Statue of Liberty and Pio Fedi's lesser-known The Liberty of Poetry, designed at the same time...
A Huge Art Museum Is Secretly About to Open in the Hudson Valley
For several years, Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu have quietly accumulated a 400-piece collection of postwar Italian art from a movement known as Arte Povera. Now the husband-and-wife team are on the verge of opening a 20,000-square-foot private exhibition space in the Hudson Valley town of Cold Spring, N.Y., to showcase their collection. "The onl...