Istituto Di Cultura - New York

Helena Janeczek takes her Strega Prize winning novel, “The Girl with the Leica”, on tour of North America. The girl with the Leica is Gerda Taro, a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the firs...

The students of the 4th and 5th grades of La School d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi will engage with Italian actors and stars of the showbiz, from the present and the past, in a funny theatrical piece. Our young protagonists, invited in the American metropolis to represent the best of the Italian repertoire, face an unpredictable...

Award-winning actress and playwright Isabella Ragonese will bring us on an emotional journey in between literature and theater featuring some of the greatest Italian authors like - Andrea Camilleri, Elsa Morante, Goffredo Parise, Nicola Ammaniti, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, and others.. “On a Solitary Beach” ev...

Following the publication of his fiery book "L’italiano è Meraviglioso. Come e perché dobbiamo salvare la nostra lingua" (Rizzoli, 2018), Claudio Marazzini, the President of the century-old institution Accademia della Crusca, gives a lecture about the importance of preserving and promoting the Italian...

The Italian American Committee on Education (IACE), and the Italian Cultural Institute, are pleased to host New York Times bestselling author Dianne Hales presenting her latest book “La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World”,  a celebration of the Italian culture and its global impact. "There is a prima...

A round table to launch the second issue of INTERTWINING Magazine. After the 2018 Davos Declaration it’s been perceived as extremely urgent a return to urban transformation practices linked with cultural values. What does this mean? What kind of values should designers, planners, and public administrators put at...

The oustanding musicians of "Quartetto di Cremona" - Cristiano Gualco, violin; Paolo Andreoli, violin; Simone Gramaglia, viola; Giovanni Scaglione cello - perform at the Italian Cultural Institute a program that includes: G.Verdi, Quartetto in mi minore and L. van Beethoven, Quartetto n.14 in do diesis minore op.131 (no...

On the occasion of the publication of Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, the Italian Cultural Institute welcomes Carmen Bambach, internationally renowned Leonardo specialist and author of the prestigious monograph. Carmen’s four-volume work is a groundbreaking contribution of original scholarship that continues the ...

Screening of  "Io, Leonardo" a movie produced by SKY TV and directed by the Mexican director Jesus Garces Lambert. Leonardo da Vinci, played by Luca Argentero, is accompanied by Francesco Pannofino’s narrating voice. A unique journey into the mind of the multifaceted artist and man, through the most significant...

An extraordinary musical encounter between the vocalist Maria Pia De Vito and the English/Italian pianist and composer Julian Oliver Mazzariello. Two artists with a strong bond and joyously spontaneous interaction, with a drive to walk new music paths, in which vocal and linguistic creativity - such as the Neapolitan dialect...

For “Primo Levi At 100”, the centennial of Primo Levi’s birth, journalist, translator and writer Ian Thomson presents the new edition of his classic biography of Primo Levi. Program presented in collaboration with the Primo Levi Center NY and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli/Marimò. Ian Thomson was born ...

The Institute hosts the presentation of the third volume of "L' Arte in Cucina 2019 - gli artisti incontrano gli chef" (Art in the Kitchen 2019 - Artists Meet the Chefs) by Giorgio Mondadori. With the special participation of the Michelin-starred chef of Abruzzo origin William Zonfa. The editorial series "Art in the Kitchen"...