Marco Paoli Photography
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2015; Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065 Organized by: ICI In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia. The works take as raw material th...
La Italy-America Chamber of Commerce premia la baronessa Zerilli-Marimò
La cornice è quella della nave da crociera "Poesia" della società Msc attraccata al Pier 88 sull'Hudson. L'evento è lo "Spring Luncheon" della Italy-America Chamber of Commerce svoltosi ieri, che ha visto protagonista la baronessa Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò che ha ricevuto l'annuale "Business & Cultural Award". Alla cerimonia di premiazione che...
New York’s “Other Little Italies”
Most of the immigrants went to the cities. New York, Buffalo, Rochester and other cities in the State of New York received large contingents. It must be remembered that immigrants almost always came to join others who had preceded them – a husband, or a father, or an uncle or a friend. In western New York most of the first immigrants from...
Festival will feature singer Micheal Castaldo ITALIAN INVASION
By Guy D'Astolfo The Greater Youngstown Italian Festival had been trying to book singer Micheal Castaldo for several years, but the timing was never right — until this year. The Italian-born tenor will sing Saturday and Sunday inside the Roma Tent, which holds 1,000 people, and his performance will be different both nights. The festival,...
Il ministro Cecile Kyenge al GEI di New York
Il presidente del Gei (Gruppo Esponenti Italiani), Lucio Caputo ha dato il benvenuto al ristorante Le Cirque al ministro Cecile Kyenge. Cecile Kyenge ha parlato delle problematiche legate all'immigrazione sottolineando che l'Italia non è un paese razzista, ma manca una informazione corretta con ancora troppi sterotipi legati al fenomeno che devono...
An Italian American Tells His True Story, ‘Surviving the Warzone’
In the 1960s, East New York, Brooklyn made the Wild West look like Disney World. East New York was in such a lawless state. Street gangs dominated Brooklyn like the New Lots Boys, Fulton and Rockaway, the Crescents, Liberty Park Boys, Fountain and Pitkin, and Hemlock and Sutter. The black and Puerto Rican gangs took cool names, like the Chaplains,...
Onondaga Historical Association seeking photos, artifacts for Italian heritage exhibit
By Rick Moriarty The Onondaga Historical Association is looking for old photos and artifacts for an upcoming exhibit on the Italian heritage of Syracuse. The exhibit will be displayed in the association's second-floor gallery at 321 Montgomery St. from Sept. 12 through March 16. Dennis Connors, the association's curator of history, said i...
Historic exhibition of St. Francis of Assisi manuscripts coming to Brooklyn Borough Hall
By Mary Frost Historic 12th and 13th century manuscripts relating to St. Francis of Assisi are going on display starting Dec. 17 at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Borough President Eric Adams announced on Wednesday. "Friar Francis: Traces, Words and Images," is the biggest exhibition ever to be held at Borough Hall, and organizers expect it to be...
A lecture by Federica Pedriali: "Deconstructing Rome" - March 05, 2015 at 6:00 pm
This presentation uses Paolo Sorrentino's La grande bellezza (2013) and Rosi's Sacro Gra (2013) to frame a selective deconstruction of the Eternal City. Paragraphs include Genius of Rome (broadly based on a long view of the city's primary logistics: place and time), Grand Narratives (focusing on an evolving Roman mythology driven by polari...
EPPUR SI MUOVE: Panel Discussion: THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SUCCESS: Do We Have to Leave Italy?
APRIL 29, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 Eppur si muove / And Yet It Moves is a series dedicated to Italians in and outside of Italy who give us hope for the future. Books in comparison:The Country where Anything is Possible and Far from Us A conversation with the author...
Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap
by Roberta Smith Alberto Burri's prescient paintings — in patched, burned and otherwise abused burlap, plastic or wood — form a lavish, beautiful and admirable, if sometimes monotonous retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. It presents an artist who is impressive less for the profundity of his work than for his consistency and his ideas,...
Italy Invades: How Italians Conquered the World at the Italian American Museum
The Italian American Museum presents: ITALY INVADES. How Italians Conquered the World. Thursday, June 16th, 6:30 P.M. Book Reading and Signing by Christopher Kelly. Light refreshments will be served About the Book: Recreating their success with America Invades, Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock take another...