CLAUDIO PAVONE “A CIVIL WAR”
Book presentation and round table A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistanceby Claudio Pavone, translated by Peter Levy, preface by Stanislao Pugliese “Among the few indisputable masterpieces of contemporary history.” –Financial Times . A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, when only a boy, […]
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Andrea Mastrovito – KICKSTARTING
Saint Joseph Patron Parish in collaboration with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is pleased to announce Kickstarting, a new public project in New York by artist Andrea Mastrovito. Kickstarting is a project based on the interaction between sports and art. Using soccer balls and tempera in powder, Mastrovito together with one hundred children […]
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A great Futurist Evening by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory
A show by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory adapted from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Giovanni Papini Director and performer Massimiliano Finazzer Flory Choreography by Michela Lucenti Interpreted by Sara Ippolito Music by Igor Stravinsky, Alfredo Casella, Francesco Cilea, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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The Poetry of Parmigianino’s “Schiava Turca”
Francesco Mazzola (1503-1540), called Parmigianino after Parma, the Northern Italian city of his birth, was one of the most prolific and celebrated artists of the sixteenth century. Known as “Raphael reborn,” he mastered the arts of painting, drawing, and printmaking and was renowned for his portraits. Today his exquisite portrait of an unknown woman called […]
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FABIO MAURI STUDY DAY
CIMA’s inaugural installation includes works by Fabio Mauri (1926-2009) in dialogue with Fortunato Depero. This Study Day will take a closer look at the far-reaching career of conceptual and performing artist, Mauri. In addition to a number of thought-provoking papers, there will also be a recreation of Mauri’s performance piece, L’Espressionista (1982), drawn from his […]
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ITALIAN MODERNISM IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT WAR
Panel discussion On the occasion of Ara H. Merjian’s newly published volume from Yale University Press, “Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris”, this roundtable will address the relationship of Italy’s modernist movements – from Futurism to the short-lived ‘Scuola Metafisica”- to the cultural upheaval of World War One. Panelists: Raffaele Bedarida, […]
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NEW YORK CHAMBER PLAYERS
This is a program of traditional and contemporary music . The first part is traditional with experienced conductors from Italy Delio Cassetta and Giacomo Franci at the piano performing the beautiful Schumann Piano Concerto in a min. op.54 . The second part is contemporary music starting with the performance- In Between Orchestra – The performance […]
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PROJECT IX-PLEIADES
LIVE MUSIC/SOUND INSTALLATION & DANCENORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Two Japanese tour de force artists, acclaimed musician Kuniko Kato, praised by Steve Reich as a “first rate percussionist,” and dancer Megumi Nakamura, internationally-known since her days with Jiří Kylián’s Netherlands Dance Theater, explore the mesmerizing scores of legendary 20th-century composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001). Project IX – Pleiades, […]
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ROBERTO CUOGHI Šuillakku Corral
For his exhibition in the Third Floor galleries of the New Museum, Cuoghi will present Šuillakku – corral version (2014), an ambitious sound piece in the form of an imagined ancient Assyrian lament from 612 BC performed on a collection of handmade instruments carefully researched, built, and played by the artist himself. Roberto Cuoghi was […]
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AMERICA
AMERICA tells its true story through three generations of one family, giving three very different views of America: the America of the pioneers who discovered the West; the America of their children who defend the American dream, and the America of the grandchildren who challenge and then rediscover their origins as a nation of immigrants. […]
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