by Catherine Accardi Perhaps some people believe history is a thing of the past. Think again. It is all around you. You look at it every day and likely even admire it. Examples are the many Italian cultural sites of San Francisco's North Beach such as the Columbus Tower and St. Francis Church. These monuments to our cultural past...
READ MOREThis 1999 photo of Mary Ginnetti by Anthony Riccio is featured in Riccio's book "The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories." Riccio will show his photos and discuss his book at an event at the New Haven Museum on Wednesday, Dec. 4. The 5:30 p.m. event (snow date: Thursday, Dec. 5) coincides with the current exhibition...
READ MOREWhen: Thursday, May 19, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)Where: Italian Cultural Institute , 500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450 , Chicago, IL The photographer will be in attendance at the opening.Jon Guido Bertelli, from Florence, Italy, academically trained there and in Oslo. Following a few years as an Art Director / Graphic Designer he cho...
READ MOREItalian fine art and fashion photographer Alexo Wandael's latest project is a visual celebration of Italians working, living and loving in New York through a series of black and white portraits on location. The exhibition is a window into the Italian excellence here in New York. Stories of Italian human resources often not recognized back...
READ MOREIn occasion of the 450-year anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Government Department responsible for Florence's Museums, and the Grandi Opere – FMR UTET Editorial Group present Il Potere dello Sguardo ("The Power of a Look,") beginning February 18th. On show in the Tuscan Capital's Museum of Medicean Chapels until March 15th...
READ MOREby Maria Antonella Mannino Sembra poter condensare in sé l'idea di una sorta di sicilianità ubiqua ed universale, l'immagine dal titolo Frank, scattata dal fotografo Paul Cary Goldberg, parte della serie Tutta La Famiglia: a Photographic Exhibition of Community Life in Gloucester, Massachusetts, esposta fino al 9 gennaio al John D. Calandra Italia...
READ MOREUn libro bellissimo che nasce da un meraviglioso progetto, quello del fotografo Piero Ribelli, presentato qualche giorno fa all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura a New York. 50 Main Street non è solo un luogo, ma è un'idea stessa dell'America, un'America reale e immaginata, quell'America fatta di paesi e piccole città, tutti con la loro strada principa...
READ MOREThe Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged arch...
READ MOREAlla presenza del Presidente dell'Assemblea Regionale Siciliana, On. Giovanni Ardizzone e di altre Autorità civili e militari, si è svolta il 18 dicembre u.s. nei Saloni di Rappresentanza della Prefettura di Messina, l'anteprima ufficiale di presentazione della Mostra Fotografica itinerante dal titolo ItaloAmericani "il valore dell'ITALIANITA". L'...
READ MOREby Paul Pirrotta Casa Emigranti Italiani, a not for profit Connecticut corporation whose mission is to promote Italian culture and history, will present a pictorial exhibit on the history of Italian migration to Hartford. The exhibit will run from 10-5 to 10-30 and is being held in the corridor connecting the Legislative Office Building to th...
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