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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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

ISCP Open Studios

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a three-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 36 artists and curators from 20 countries currently in residence present work in their studios. The studio is a generative space – part production site, office, laboratory and situation – and it can be argued that […]

THE ROME CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Robert McDuffie Join us for an evening of music and to learn more about the Rome Chamber Music Festival, which was founded by Robert McDuffie in 2003. Since its inception, the festival has played to full houses of chamber music enthusiasts from around the world and has become one of Rome’s most anticipated cultural events. […]

ZUCCHERO – with Special Guests

Andiamo in Italia: Italian Family History Research in Italy and from Home

With knowledge of your ancestral town in Italy, it is possible to start research using Italian records. Italy offers many records beyond birth, marriage and death. Mary M. Tedesco, founder of ORIGINS ITALY, frequently conducts genealogical research in Italy. She will help you discover what records are available and how they are accessed.

MARCO BELLOCCHIO

Morality and Beauty Book presentation Since his much-heralded feature debut with Fists in the Pocket in 1965, Marco Bellocchio has become one of the cinema’s most intrepid voyagers, traveling a course that captures so many of the most important intellectual and political movements of the past fifty years. Yet perhaps the great difference between Bellocchio […]

COSMICOMICS based on the novel by Italo Calvino

Dixon Place in association with The New Stage Theatre Company presents Cosmicomics, an original multimedia theatre piece based on the novel of the same title by Italo Calvino. Adapted, directed and designed for the stage by Ildiko Nemeth (NY Innovative Theatre Award nominee), this stunning new work comprises a captivating series of vignettes involving our […]

Peppe Voltarelli – Italian troubadour and Calabrian cantautore

The first North American appearances of the year for the singer-songwriter/actor, these performances mark the release of Voltarelli’s new studio album “Lamentarsi come ipotesi” (To Complain as Hypothesis) and follow his critically acclaimed two-night stand at last summer’s Montreal Jazz Festival. The album provides a metaphoric soundtrack to a Southern Italian way of life where […]