Hit Week – Unexpected sounds from Italy
Hit Week – the world’s only music festival showcasing Italy’s current scene on the global stage — returns to North America with its strongest line up to date. A greatly expanded edition of the annual event touches down in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Toronto between September 7 and October 30th. In New York […]
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PATRIZIA CAVALLI: “MY POEMS WON’T CHANGE THE WORLD”
On the occasion of the release of My Poems Won’t Change the World, published this fall by Farrar Straus & Giroux, meet Patrizia Cavalli, beloved Italian author, said to have written “the most intensely ‘ethical’ poetry in Italian literature of the twentieth century.” With the participation of Gini Alhadeff, translator. About My PoemsWon’t Change the […]
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A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
Lecture by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (University of Arizona) Discussants: Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Rutgers University. Gloria Origgi, researcher at the Institut Nicod (CNRS) in Paris; fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in New York.
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URBINO, RENAISSANCE, RAFFAELLO: A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF EUROPEAN HUMANISM
Lecture by Keith Christiansen Chair European Painting Dept. at MET Exhibition The Marche and Urbino, the UNESCO City that gave birth to the divine Raphael, on the occasion of the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S. , promote , together with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and the Superintendence of Urbino, the […]
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Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena
Francesco Vanni (1563/64–1610) was the most important artist in Siena at the turn of the 17th century and a key figure in Italian Counter-Reformation painting. His works combine dazzling technical virtuosity and brilliant coloring with the naturalistic approach to subject matter more famous in the works of his contemporaries Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio. Vanni created […]
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THE NARRATING SCENE. READINGS FROM ITALIAN STORYTELLING THEATER – OLIVETTI by Laura Curino
To follow lecture by Prof.ssa Roberta Carpani – The passion in a room. OLIVETTI”The first design object that came into my house was a Lettera 32. My first typewriter. The machine, portable, followed me on the train, giving me a job. It was a recognizable tool. It’s beautiful. An industrial product, but beautiful. Olivetti, this […]
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START UP STORIES OF INNOVATORS
A COMPARISON BETWEEN NEW YORK’S AND ITALY’S START UP COMMUNITIES Workshop Maria Teresa Cometto (journalist and author of “Tech and the City”) Riccardo Luna (journalist and author of “Cambiamo tutto” ) Riccardo Viale (moderator, director of the Italian Cultural Institute) Introduction by Riccardo Lattanzi (professor at NYU and co-chairman of the NY Chapter of the […]
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MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL: Trapping
This performance TRAPPING is part of the Moving Sounds 2013 festival. The project is based on artist Andrea Bianconi’s book, Romance, and will include a video by Bianconi, members of the FLUSSO Dance project directed by the choreographer Vanessa Tamburi, and a new musical score composed by Sebastien Sanz Santamaria. Romance illustrates a segment of Bianconi’s […]
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THE NARRATING SCENE. READINGS FROM ITALIAN STORYTELLING THEATER – SPARKS by Laura Sicignano
Laura Sicignano – Sparks- Author reading & discussion SPARKS New York, March 25, 1911. 4:40 PM. In less than a quarter of an hour, the workers of the Triangle Waistshirt Company (TWC), a shirt factory, would have finished their shifts and returned to their homes. Nearly 600 people were in the factory at that moment, […]
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AUDIBLE PRESENCE: LUCIO FONTANA, YVES KLEIN, CY TWOMBLY
Audible Presence explores the relationship between the time-based procedures employed by three of the most influential artists of the 20th century and the auditory experiences ofmusic, sound, and silence. Curated by Dominique Lévy and Associate Director Jennifer G. Buonocore, and organized with support from the Yves Klein Archives, Paris, and the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, […]
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