S.F. Vanni Bookstore, un centro culturale italiano nel cuore del Village
Quella di Sante Fortunato Vanni, arrivato dalla Sicilia a New York nel 1884 per aprire una libreria, con annessa stamperia, è una storia d'altri tempi. L'immigrazione italiana era al culmine, New York era fatta di gang, avventurieri, mendicanti, uomini d'affari con e senza scrupoli, e di tanti uomini e donne che, come Vanni, avevano un sog...
Machiavelli: A Portrait
APRIL 16, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Book Presentation - Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015) by Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University "Machiavellian"—used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless—is never m...
Fabio Mauri’s Outsider Art
In between an experiential installation about walking on the moon and a World War II film screened on a wall of old prison lockers, some very challenging art on the Holocaust is on view this month at Hauser & Wirth, an Upper East Side gallery. "I was not new" is the first New York show of the work of the late Fabio Mauri, an Ital...
Art of the Italian Two Wheel - classic motorcycle exhibition in New York
by George Chapman Based in New York? Enjoy Italian design and classic motorcycles? All-round design god and avid bike collector Stuart Parr is currently hosting an exhibition in Manhattan that is not to be missed... As keen on riding his fleet of classic Italian motorcycles as he is collecting them, the producer of Eminem's '8 Mil...
Italian-American Cultural Fest Returns to Staten Island in October
A free festival that celebrates Italian-American culture will return to Staten Island in October, Borough President James Oddo announced Wednesday. The second annual "Rome Through Richmond Town" will return to Historic Richmond Town on Oct. 10 with food and live music, Oddo said. "Last year's event was a resounding success and we hope...
Tribute to Francesco Pennisi (1934-2000)
Date: Friday, September 18, 2015 Hours: 6pm Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of New York Dissonanzen presents a true multimedia show that summarizes the many aspects of the artistic and poetic world of Pennisi. In coordination with the video and graphic improvisations and choices of Andrea Pennisi, video-artist from Catania (nephew of F. Pennis...
A Dinner & Bocce Challenge
Monday, October 5 - The Italian American Community Center (I.A.C.C.) - 257 Washington Avenue Ext, Albany 12205 Reservations for dinner and team sign up must be in by Friday October 2nd to George Urciuoli at ggu2020@gmail.com Dinner at Treviso's Italian Buffet 5pm - 6:15pm followed by Bocce at 6:30pm. Dinner is $25/person inc...
Architect Aldo Andreoli Approaches His Craft With European Artistry And American Practicality
by Adam Lehrer The New York-based Spring Studios, a massive creative studio in TriBeca that is set to compete with studios such as Milk, is a monumental achievement in design and architecture even to the most untrained of eyes. With no background in applied creativity, one can still feel the utter expansiveness of the space: the ceilings...
Ferragamo mixes high fashion with hide-and-seek to advertise spring season
By Sarah Jones Italian fashion label is pursuing the finer things in life through a vivacious spring/summer 2016 advertising campaign. "Lo Splendore Della Vita," or "The Splendor of Life," is based on the eponymous brand founder's idea that beauty is limitless and a drive for perfection never ceases. Beyond promoting th...
Varricchio ospite del Gei. Friendship Award al nuovo ambasciatore
L'ambasciatore Armando Varricchio è stato ospite d'onore ieri a una colazione del Gei, Gruppo Esponenti Italiani, alla quale hanno partecipato autorità, Vip (fra i quali il nuovo console generale a New York, ministro Francesco Genuardi), esponenti del mondo imprenditoriale, rappresentanti di varie organizzazioni e giornalisti che hanno gremito la S...
The Savoy in Rome: From boarding house to Italian restaurant institution
For more than nine decades, the Destito family has been serving up Steak al Ciccio — thinly sliced tenderloin cooked in a red wine sauce. "It's has been on the menu as long as we've had menus to look at," said Chris Destito, a part of the fourth-generation of the family running the Italian restaurant in Rome. "It's basically the same recip...
Friends of Vito Marcantonio Forum Invite You to Celebrate the VMF's Fifth Anniversary at Gaetana’s Cucina Italiana Sunday, July 17, 2016
What: The Friends of the Vito Marcantonio Forum will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF), whose public events have included nearly thirty lectures and panels accompanied by skits, dramatizations, presentations, and readings for diverse audiences ranging from 20 to more than 100 people. In addition, the VMF supports a...