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After the success in London and Milano, FederlegnoArredo, the Italian Federation of wood, cork, furniture and furnishing industries, comes to New York with "Kitchen, Soul, Design: L'Italia che Vive", to showcase the excellence of the "Italian Kitchen" and affirms its position worldwide as a key element of the Made in Italy. The 12 month-long tour,...

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Friday, December 13th (6:30pm) - Suggested donation of $10 per person Photo essay by International Transportation Photojournalist Joseph M. Calisi   Joseph M. Calisi retraced places visited in his youth to capture the sun-splashed beauty of a region rarely seen by tourists. This photographic essay of Puglia, features the beauty of Sout...

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A new foundation to promote Italian modern and contemporary art plans to open its doors to the public in SoHo in February. For its inaugural exhibition, the foundation, called the Center for Italian Modern Art and located at 421 Broome Street, will feature work of the Futurist artist and designer Fortunato Depero, who once lived in New York.  ...

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by Anthony J. Tanburri   Cari Amici, I am pleased to announce the reconstitution of the Calandra Center for Career Development at the Calandra Institute offices in Manhattan on January 12, 2015. The Center will provide individual career counseling and assessment to current students and members of the community, 18 years of age and older, wh...

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March 26, 2015 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th FloorNew York, N.Y. 10036   On March 25, 1911, just before closing time, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village, killing 146 people, mostly young Italian and Jewish immigrant women. The tragedy devastated fami...

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Laura Caparrotti tells her story seated on a rooftop between Broadway and 5th Avenue with the enchanting, flawless voice that could only belong to a theatre actress. Born in Rome, she got her degree in Theatre History before going on to work with artists such Dario Fo, Annie Girardot, Elsa Wolliaston. Then, after about ten years, she decided that I...

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By Ralph Gardner Jr.   "I'm going to tell you a little about this camera," Dom Quartuccio said. "This is the period when I went to high school." Mr. Quartuccio is a 91-year-old commercial photographer whose work is on display at the Italian American Museum on Mulberry Street through Nov. 29.   He developed a love for photography...

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by Jeannine Guilyard   The Museum of Modern Art's current film series "Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective" is in its final days, so if you're in New York City this week, it's still not too late to catch one of these Italian classics on the big screen. Born in Rome, Pietrangeli first studied medicine but fate took over when he assisted...

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By Alicia Kort The tale of this young boy's life in the Bronx has been presented in many forms: An autobiographical one-man show, a critically-acclaimed 1993 film and now, a Broadway musical.   Although this musical isn't particularly groundbreaking, it's fun, which sometimes Broadway musicals just need to be. Aptly promoted as a mix betwee...

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Maestro Stefano Miceli, one of Italy's and the musical world's leading conductors and pianists presented his latest initiative "The Art of the Italian Sonata" during a four day whirl wind tour of New York, under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New York and the Italian Academy Foundation, Inc.Maestro Miceli, who is best known as a conductor and...

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