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by Katya Kazakina Amedeo Modigliani's painting of a sultry nude fetched $170.4 million from a Chinese buyer at Christie's on Monday, a record for the Italian artist at auction. Estimated at more than $100 million, Modigliani's 1917 "Nu Couche (Reclining Nude)" has the highest valuation among almost 2,000 lots offered by three major auction houses...

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By Melissa Kravitz   Endless slices of Neapolitan pies are forecasted for the West Village. Italian-import Rossopomodoro (118 Greenwich Ave.) is celebrating their one-year anniversary in New York with a tradition known as "Pizza a Giro." Literally translating to a round of pizza, this celebration best translates to New Yorkers as "Botto...

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Il Center for Italian Studies Lecture di New York informa che partirà dal 7 febbraio prossimo alle 18.00 una serie di letture su vari temi.   Protagonista del primo appuntamento sarà Marcello Saija, (Università di Palermo) che interverrà sul tema "Immigrazione Siciliana in America", con l'introduzione di Vincenzo Pascale Ph.D., coordinatore...

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Spazio a registi provenienti da tutto il mondo, al cinema indipendente, ai nomi eccellenti del grande schermo e della storia. La XII edizione del Tribeca Film Festival, che debutta oggi a New York, promette come ogni anno il mix di cultura, arte cinematografica, spettacolo ed eventi che dal 2002 lo rende unico nel suo genere. Fondato da Robert De...

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di Maurita Cardone   Attraverso la storia di due famiglie molto diverse tra loro, il giornalista Alexander Stille racconta il '900 e un'America multiculturale. Nel suo ultimo libro The Force of Things. A Marriage in War and Peace (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), presentato ieri, 6 maggio, alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò della New York Un...

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The Museum of Modern Art honors Dante Ferretti (Italian, b. 1943) with a large-scale multimedia installation comprising a 12-screen labyrinth featuring projected scenes from his work.   Original set pieces from the films that earned him three Academy Awards; and a six-month retrospective of 22 films featuring the production designer's career...

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Talent Garden, rete di co-working Made in Italy, aprirà a New York. "Congratulations! You've been selected!", così recita l'email di ieri pomeriggio che annuncia la buona nuova, dopo 6 mesi di duro lavoro per ottenere tale risultato. E' stata selezionata dalla Città di New York nell'ambito del premio di riqualificazione territoriale (HELM2.0), come...

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Joey's Restaurant is about as East Utica as it gets, and we're not talking location.While the latest incarnation of this dining institution has been in place since the early '90s, the Mohawk Street Italian joint traces its history all the way back to the 1930s, when East Utica was the epicenter of local Italian-American culture. Back then, the plac...

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Senator David Carlucci (D) announced today that the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is now accepting applications for four $2,000 scholarships to be awarded June 9 at their Annual Legislative Conference Day.   "Given the high costs of college, every opportunity must be made by local students and their working famili...

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Of all the things that Restaurant Week has to offer, transportation to another country is not one of them. But by stepping into Little Venice, you'll come as close to Italy as possible without leaving Broome County. Located at 111 Chenango St., Little Venice is a family-owned Italian eatery that makes generic places like Olive Garden pale in compa...

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