Learn Italy New York invites all the students to GELATO NIGHT at L'Arte del Gelato. Great occasion to taste a typical italian Gelato while conversing in ITALIANO! When? Thursday, August 22th at 8.30 pm.   Where? If you have class at our our Midtown location we can go together to Chelsea Market, after class at 8pm.   Read more...

Sarà l'artista italiana Paola Pivi ad inaugurare ( dal 18 settembre al 26 ottobre) con le sue opere la Galerie Perrotin nel suo nuovo spazio a New York con una mostra fra l'audace ed il giocoso.Pivi crea opere d'arte che disorientano ed allo stesso tempo rendono una dimensione poetica. Anche se formalmente il suo lavoro si è spinto al limite di ciò...

Award winning singer Cristina Fontanelli, brings her 10th annual "Christmas in Italy®" show to the BMCC Tribeca PAC, NYC on Saturday, December 7. The show completes The Year of Italian Culture in the US and benefits the Wounded Warrior Project.   "This show is such a labor of love and it has been for ten years," said Fontanelli, who grew up...

The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere has joined with other leading organizations in an initiative called Save Columbus Day. This initiative was formed after the City of Seattle recently voted to have an "Indigenous Peoples Day" on the same day as Columbus Day.   Please go to WWW.SAVECOLUMBUSDAY.COM and sign the petition to...

Scattered around the steel table of a monastery in the Veneto region of Northern Italy are manuscripts, one with green, red and intensely blue medieval miniatures of dragons, another adorned with ornate leaves culminating in golden flowers.   A monk gently lays an off-white leather book on the table, and opens it at a long letter A drawn in...

Food and wine are two things you'll never run out of in Italy. For those in the wine trade, experiencing the finest of the country's corked and cooked will not require a flight to Rome but a journey to Manhattan's Pierre Hotel on February 19, on which day Gala Italia will commence for its 30th anniversary.   The trade-specific exhibition or...

Dante as a Political Theorist. Historicizing Theology and Theologizing Power: questo il titolo del simposio internazionale sul De Monarchia di Dante Alighieri organizzato congiuntamente dalla New York University e dalla Columbia University per lanciare un grande progetto globale su Dante che si svilupperà a New York da qui al 2021. Il simposio sì...

MAY 06, 2015 (07:00 PM)Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Presentation: LE CONVERSAZIONI 2015With: Antonio Monda, NYU   Followed by a screening of the documentary about the previous edition (2014). Le Conversazioni is a literary festival created by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini that takes place annu...

Award-winning singer and PBS/WNET and NY affiliates Host for Andrea Bocelli "Live From Central Park" and "Il Volo Takes Flight" CRISTINA FONTANELLI brings her program of Italy's best-loved songs, arias, Neapolitan and Christmas classics during her 12th-Annual "Christmas In Italy®" show at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday,...

by Roberta Smith In memory, the still lifes of the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) can sometimes seem like the medium's best comfort food — familiar, satisfying and a little monotonous. His repeating images of humble domestic objects — bottles, long-necked vases and little cookie tins set against expanses of empty wall and tabletop — c...