SNOWING STYROFOAM
Veronica Santi curator for Spazio 522 Gallery is proud to present Snowing Styrofoam, an exhibition featuring Italian artists Nick Petruccelli and Verdiana Patacchini, both in their debut in the New York art scene. Reading the landscape of cities and embroidering new textures of world, Nick Petruccelli makes its paintings glueing industrial scraps and leather mixed […]
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GEPPY PISANELLI – NO MAN’S LANDS
Kips gallery is pleased to present Terre di Nessuno (No Man’s Lands) an exhibition of recent paintings by Italian artist Geppy Pisanelli who has lived and worked in New York since 2007. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and his third solo show in New York. The opening reception will […]
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NEWS FROM THE EXCAVATION
Presentation and Screening Movie A strange, forty-something man, ironically nicknamed “the Professor”, lives the wretched life of an all-round servant in a shady house of high-class call girls in Rome. He starts visiting one of the prostitutes who has been hospitalized after an attempted suicide. A delicate story ensues between these two.This story, on which […]
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LIBERATION ANNIVERSARY
Film screening and panel discussion To commemorate the April 25 anniversary of Italy’s Liberation from Nazi Germany, the Italian Cultural Institute will host a film screening of Luigi Comencini’s “Tutti a casa”, featuring Alberto Sordi, and Guido Chiesa’s “Il partigiano Johnny”, based on the eponymous novel by Beppe Fenoglio. In addition to the anniversary of […]
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A STRADIVARIUS FOR THE PEOPLE
Concert Maestro Matteo Fedeli will bring a precious Stradivarius built in 1726 on tour in the USA for the first time.The project, entitled, “A Stradivarius for the People,” aims at providing the general public, as well as aficionados, an opportunity at a firsthand glance at these unique and rare instruments. Fedeli, creator of the project, […]
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ASSONANZE/DISSONANZE
From Medieval Times to “900 Exhibition The “Assonance/Dissonance” exhibition will showcase masterpieces of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as Giordano, Bassano, Cardi, Redi alongside works by twentieth century Italian artists, including Pistoletto, Mondino, Paladino, Chia and Clemente, courtesy of the Sperone Westwater collection. This juxtaposition of antique and contemporary art will bring to the […]
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Poetry and The City: Milo De Angelis: Milan Was Asphalt
Milan Was Asphalt: a book presentation (Theme of Farewell and After-Poems, The University of Chicago Press 2013) with the author Milo De Angelis and the translators, Susan Stewart (Princeton University) and Patrizio Ceccagnoli (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Poetry reading and discussion.
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LUCA LOMBARDI
Fast Times Slow Music? LECTURE Luca Lombardi is one of internationally most known Italian composers. On the occasion of the concert scheduled on April 12 at Alice Tully Hall, the IIC of New York is pleased to present Luca Lombardi’s conference about slowness in music.
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DISAPPEARING ACT V
European Film Festival Corpo Celeste This Festival is an official project of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) as a celebration of the vitality of European cinema. Launched as an annual event in 2009, it instantly became popular for its unique, carefully selected film series, presenting films that have gained acclaim on the […]
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UPDATING BOUNDED RATIONALITY
1st Herbert Simon Society Conference The Herbert A. Simon Society brings together some of the most important economists critical of contemporary economic models and aims at reformulating economic theory by starting with the many non-neoclassical directions that have been developed in recent years. This workshop is focused on three themes that were identified as particularly […]
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