Announcing The David and Julie Tobey Fellowship
We are delighted to announce that applications for the new David and Julie Tobey Fellowship are now open. This three-month fellowship supports research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, and especially the role that these works played in the creative process, the history of taste and collecting, and quest...
Il Mosaico - October 10 at 7:30 pm
Concert including works of Italian composers in honor of the Italian Month. The first half of the concert will feature students and ensembles from throughout the Boyer College of Music, and the second half will feature the full orchestra. Temple University Symphony Orchestra (TUSO) Overture to Guglielmo Tell Gioacchino Rossini Irene Moret...
San Francisco’s La Scuola: Bilingual Education With an Italian Accent
What's the most beautiful thing about San Francisco? It's a common question. But in this case the person asking it is Matteo Renzi, the prime minister of Italy. He's querying students at La Scuola, an Italian immersion school in San Francisco that has just moved into a permanent new home on Fell Street. Of course Renzi, who is dedicating t...
The Tuscan Region in Texas – Start-up companies in the life science sector come to Texas to promote Italian innovation
The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas in partnership with Toscana Promozione, (the TuscanyRegion International Development Agency), are honored to present the first project regarding the bestTuscany has to offer in the field of life science, bio and nanotechnology in Texas.The project matches together Tuscan and Texan companies, working in...
The Italian Navigator has landed in the new world: a solo exhibition of New York by Rhonda Holberton
Centered on her ongoing investigations into the politics of technology, Rhonda Holberton's multimedia installation, The Italian Navigator has Landed in the New World, imagines the body as seen by the machine on the other side of the screen. Utilizing the austere aesthetics of digital semantics found in image recognition algorithms, the wor...
Dal grottesco all'eroico l'eredita' delle iconografie del Rinascimento e del Barocco nelle opere dell'italiano Thomas Braid
Doveva essere una contemporary Gallery ed invece continua la sua avventura negli states la romana Galleria Monitor nel Lower East Side a New York ai piedi del New Museum. Questa volta presenta il debutto americano dell'artista italiano Thomas Braida, classe 1982, nato in Friuli Venezia Giulia, vive a Venezia, dove si è diplomato all'Accade...
Another Christmas with Calamari sisters - December 4, 2014 at 2:00 pm
This holiday season, spend Another Christmas With the Calamari Sisters. Stars of the public access cooking show Mangia Italiano, "sisters" Delphine and Carmela graduated to the big leagues of the Food Network. But they're coming back to WFAT with laughs, songs, spicy anecdotes and loads of holiday mayhem. The dynamic duo will regale you wi...
New Curriculum emphasizes Italian role in New Jersey, American History
New Jersey's deep connections with Italy -- from the rush of immigrants more than a century ago to its original namesake, "Nova Caesarea" -- are being explored in depth by a little-known commission that has created a curriculum for the state's public schools. The state's Italian and Italian-American Heritage Commission has released a wealt...
Saving the Leaning Tower of Pisa - January 22, 2015
Did you ever wonder why the Leaning Tower of Pisa is still standing? Join us at the IIC on January 22, 2015 for a engaging and enlightening lecture by the two leading experts of the Tower's restoration project. Prof. Michele Jamiolkowski and Prof. Carlo Viggiani will talk about the history of the building and the recent efforts and fe...
L’uomo che crede (davvero) al valore di chi lavora con lui
«C'è un brano dei Detroit Emeralds, un gruppo soul americano, che è stato la colonna portante dei miei sogni giovanili. Adesso ve lo faccio sentire: è come il rumore della "manovia", le fasi di lavorazione alla base della nostra produzione». Giuseppe Zanotti non rinuncia alla goliardia. Trasforma il viaggio nella sua fabbrica di San Mauro...
Italian culture night at Boston Children’s Museum
The Program includes among other activities:1) Newpoli - Newpoli is a group of exceptionally talented musicians who specialize in Southern Italian Folk Music, mainly from the regions of Campania and Puglia.2) Pazzi Lazzi - A Boston based Commedia dell'Arte troupe3) Emmy Nominated Matt Roberts Charismatic Comedy Magic - Magician...
When in Rome: American Crew U.S. All-Star Winner Alyssa Brasket Will Head to Italy
At the 2015 Long Beach International Salon and Spa Expo, Alyssa Brasket from Vancouver, WA grabbed the American Crew All-Star U.S. Winner title. Come April, Brasket will take her tools and travel to Rome to represent America in the American Crew Global All-Star Challenge, a photo and styling competition that combines the art and science in...