Bayside woman soon to celebrate 107th birthday
By Mark Hallum Ida Albert came to the United States at the age of 3 and, like many immigrants today, settled with her family in Astoria. The Astoria of Albert's time, however, was mostly agricultural land. This illustrates how much the borough has changed during the life of the soon-to-be 107-year-old Italian American and Bayside resident. &...
‘This is Little Italy’ at the Elizabeth Street Garden, Seen Through the Eyes of Vinny Vella
This past Tuesday, Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden sponsored a special community event entitled: "This is Little Italy." Two powerful documentaries from two local filmmakers were presented at a free outdoor screening. Both films focused on life for the Italian-American community of Little Italy. The first, Paul Stone's Mulberry, premiered as pa...
Joint exhibition of Giorgio de Chirico and Giulio Paolini opening October 2016 at Center for Italian Modern Art
This October, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will explore the direct ties between two Italian artists born in different centuries but characterized by deep affinities: the founder of Metaphysical painting, Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978), and leading conceptual artist Giulio Paolini (b. 1940). The exhibition will bring the t...
North Salem Resident Celebrates 109th Birthday
Surrounded by family members and nursing home staff at Salem Hills in North Salem, Catena Cavallaro celebrated her 109th birthday on Monday. The centenarian was born in Sicily, on Oct. 8, 1907. She met her husband while living in Italy, and came to America in the 1930s. She lived in Pleasantville until her husband, Carmello, died in 1961, and then...
Il ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi alla mostra "Piero della Francesca in America" esposta alla Frick Collection
Per la mostra eccezionale "Piero della Francesca in America" esposta per la prima volta alla Frick Collection lungo il Museum Mile di Fifth Avenue, nell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti non poteva mancare l'occasione l'ideatore del programma culturale, il ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata.Accompagnato dall'ambasciatore C...
Boys’ & Girls’ Towns of Italy Raises Over $157,000 Honoring Diageo's Joe Lehane At the 2013 Record-Breaking Wine and Spirits Annual International Dinner
Boys' & Girls' Towns of Italy (BGTI), a nonprofit that empowers war refugee, migrant and at-risk youth living on the streets, is thrilled to announce that it raised over $157,000 at its Wine and Spirits Annual International Dinner on Thursday, September 12 at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, New York. The funds will be used for BGTI's...
I Santi di Puglia in mostra al WICC
Il Westchester Italian Cultural Center, in collaborazione con la United Pugliesi Federation, ha presentato sabato scorso, 5 aprile, Santi di Puglia/Apulian Saints, una collezione di immagini di feste patronali, sagre e suggestivi percorsi storici che rievocano ogni anno antiche consuetudini e tradizioni della Puglia. La mostra, corredata dalla pro...
Vico and Naples. The Urban Origins of Moden Social Theory
Barbara Naddeo's Vico and Naples provides an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) that reveals the politics and motivations of one of Europe's first scientists of society, or philosophers of social justice. Rich with period detail and attentive to Vico's historical, rhetorical, and jurisprudential texts,...
The Working Class Made Colorful ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ at the American Folk Art Museum
The self-taught artist Ralph Fasanella (1914-97), born in the Bronx to Italian immigrants, believed that painting could be a form of labor advocacy. He worked as an ice delivery man, a truck driver, a gas station owner and a union organizer, all the while developing his colorful and detailed scenes of working-class life (as in "Family Supper," whic...
Sons of Italy to host movie screening
The Geneva Sons of Italy lodge will continue its celebration of Italian Culture and Heritage Month this week with a special screening of a classic movie. The Friday evening event, dubbed "Paradise Italian-style: A Night of Culture, Entertainment, Food and Wine," is centered around the Academy Award-winning film Cinema Paradiso, which was named Bes...
MetroCurd! Ridge subway stations crawling with Italian cheese bacteria
The demographics of once-predominantly Italian Bay Ridge may have changed over the decades, but on the micro level, Italians still rule the Ridge. A Weill Cornell Medical College study of bacteria in city subway stations released on Feb. 5 found half of Bay Ridge's stations are crawling with Enterococcus italicus, a bacteria used to make I...
Massimo Nalin's Spiritual Paintings Are an Expressive Mirror for the Human Heart at Agora Gallery NYC
Chelsea's Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Bolzano artist Massimo Nalin in Pulse of Abstraction. The exhibition opens on March 31st and runs until April 21st, 2015. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, April 2nd from 6-8 pm. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interestin...