Bronzino Portrait to Sell at Auction After Being Restituted to Heirs of Jewish Collector
A restituted portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Bronzino will come to auction next year. Expected to fetch a price between $3 million and $5 million, the work will be offered during an Old Masters sale at Sotheby’s in New York that is scheduled to take place in January 2023. The ca. 1527 painting was restituted from the German government to...
Consul General of Italy and descendants of Giuseppe Garibaldi attend event to benefit Rosebank museum: Six honored for community service
When the board of directors at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum contemplated planning its annual fundraiser luncheon and joined forces to brainstorm ways to ensure its success, thoughts on how to showcase the Rosebank museum’s deep-rooted Italian heritage came to mind. When it was confirmed that Maria Gabriella Garibaldi and her brother, Alessandro Gari...
A Chance in Life Pays Tribute to Tony May and Remembers UN SDG Goals
“This is the first time I have spoken about my father in public since his death”. So begins the speech by Marisa May, daughter of the late chef Tony May, at the Wine & Spirits Gala organized by A Chance in Life. “My father was my hero and mentor. He loved cooking, cigars, golf, travel. His motto was ‘life is always good,’ and he never wanted medioc...
MUSaEUM in New York: DAW® - Digital Artwork Vernissage
From Friday, December 09, 2022 to Tuesday, January 31, 2023. From 10:00 am To 4:00 pm. Italian Cultural Institute in New York - 686 Park Ave, New York, NY. Organized by IIC-NY in collaboration with : Cinello & Alessia Panella Law Firm. Entrance: Free MUSaEUM in NEW YORK: DAW® - Digital Artwork. Masterpieces from Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and other Ital...
Rockefeller Christmas Tree Rooted in NYC’s Italian Immigrant Past
The larger-than-life Rockefeller Center Christmas tree once again came to life Wednesday evening in New York City. The 12-ton, 82-foot Norway spruce — adorned with 50,000 lights — was crowned with a star ornament that holds 3 million Swarovski crystals. Almost lost to history, it was Italian immigrants, during the height of the Great Depression in...
Michael Silano’s New Book ‘The Gloves’ is a Stirring Autobiographical Account of the Author’s Family History and a Moving Tribute to the Life of His Mother
“The year was 1910 when my grandfather immigrated from Italy and joined a Hell’s Kitchen mob soon after,” writes Silano. “In 1925, he met an innocent girl from New Jersey who wrongly crossed a legendary block in midtown Manhattan and wound up outside a speakeasy. They would marry, but the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the ensuing War would ch...
An exhibition on the ancient history of Sardinia in New York
Fondazione Mont'e Prama and the Metropolitan Museum of New York have signed an agreement for an exhibition on the ancient history of Sardinia, which will open in May 2023 and remain open until November of the same year. Mont'e Prama director Nadia Canu, who curated the exhibition's scientific project, together with Sean Hemingway, curator of the Gr...
Bronx Little Italy to Host Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony to Kick Off the Holiday Season on Arthur Avenue
Bronx Little Italy’s Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony is back again this year on Saturday, December 3, 2022. Ciccarone Park at the intersection of East 188th Street and Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. The event is open to the public from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM and attendees can get into the holiday spirit by meeting Santa and an elf, singing along to h...
NYC Christmas Lights: DiMartino house celebrates 20 years of ‘Lights for Life’ (45 photos)
With Jack Frost prepping to nip at some noses and Santa Claus getting ready for his Christmas globetrotting, many Staten Islanders are eager to uphold their holiday tradition of visiting the DiMartino house located at 107 Sharrotts Rd. in Charleston. Joe DiMartino started to build his famous “Lights for Life” display the day after Memorial Day, and...
Find Italian Treats and More in Upstate New York This Christmas
Italian treats always seem to find their way to a holiday table at Christmas time in Upstate New York. And thank goodness for that! Italian Americans make up a huge number of families who can trace their heritage back to the Old Country. And because of that, authentic Italian bakeries and delicious gelato shops are pretty easy to find all over the...
The Italian Presepio: From St. Francis to Casa Belvedere
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere annually displays the Solidarity Creche, a gift by the Naples (Italy) Chamber of Commerce to the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) following the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Il Presepio Della Solidarieta, an exquisite, artisanal exhibit of museum quality that tells a...
From Rochester to mayor of Genoa
Last summer, in anticipation of a fall trip to France and northern Italy, I Googled each city I’d be visiting and “Rochester” to see if I might find local connections. “Paris” and “Avignon” produced no hits, but Googling “Genoa, Italy” turned up this Wikipedia entry: “Marco Bucci (politician).” Who, I wondered, is Marco Bucci and what is his connec...