Dopo il grande successo di pubblico e critica, la mostra Carlo Scarpa. Venini 1932 – 1947 a cura di Marino Barovier si trasferisce al Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, e con il nuovo titolo di Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932 – 1947, che rimarrà aperta al pubblico dal 5 novembre 2013 al 2 marzo 2014. La mostra...
READ MOREThe celebration of St. Joseph's Day, in honor of the Feast Day of the Patron Saint of the Working Person, is a long-standing tradition in the New York State Legislature. St. Joseph's Day is also the day when the swallows are traditionally believed to return to Mission San Juan Capistrano after having flown south for the winter. This year t...
READ MOREItaloamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880–1943, edited by Francesco Durante (Fordham University Press, 2014), brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of writings by Italian immigrants in the United States. Containing work originally published in Italian, this groundbreaking anthology presents long-i...
READ MOREIl Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF), che ha di recente commemorato la morte Vito Marcantonio, membro del Congresso americano per sette legislature (dal 1934 al '36 e dal 1938 al '50), fa passi avanti verso il riconoscimento di questa importante figura politica e allo stesso tempo si impegna per rivendicare un ruolo centrale nell'arena locale e nazional...
READ MOREPartisan Diary A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance BY Ada Gobetti and Translated and edited by Jomarie Alano First account available in English of an Italian woman's participation in the Italian Resistance (Resistenza) that covers the entire period between September 1943 and April 1945. Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. &...
READ MOREDon Marcello Stanzione, Jacques Coret, and Marco Gionta willl present their first book published in English: The Highway to Heaven/A closer walk with God in the Company of The Celestial Beings-Angels published by Publisher Sign. The presentation will be accompanied by the screening of the documentary Love Angels. The documentary tells the...
READ MOREBorn Claudia Lagona, Levante's life is a trajectory between Italy's two most fertile music scenes: Catania and Turin. Levante will make her US debut at SXSW, the world's leading music industry event, taking place March 17 – 21, 2015 in Austin, TX. Showcase dates follow on Monday March 23 in Los Angeles at Genghis Cohen, and on Wednesday March 25 a...
READ MOREA conclusione della sua visita a New York, il Ceo dell'Alitalia, Silvano Cassano, è stato ospite del Gei - Gruppo Esponenti Italiani - ed ha ricevuto da Lucio Caputo, presidente della prestigiosa organizzazione che racchiude i principali rappresentanti delle organizzazioni italiane che operano negli Usa, il "Gei Friendship Award". Prima di procede...
READ MOREby Terence Cullen An Italian cabinet-maker is moving into a ground-floor space at 50 West 23rd Street in the Flatiron District, Commercial Observer has learned. César, a kitchen cabinet company based in northern Italy, inked a deal on Monday for 3,200 square feet at Two Trees Management Company's only Manhattan commercial building, ac...
READ MOREThe Cultural Italian American Organization announces it will honor His Excellency Bishop Salvatore Matano, the ninth bishop of the Rochester Diocese, at its second annual Christopher Columbus Testimonial Dinner. The bishop is also the first Italian-American bishop in the history of the Rochester Diocese. The testimonial dinner is set...
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