PIERCING THE PAGE. SELECTED POEMS 1958-1989
Antonio Porta represents one of the highest and most intense poetic achievements of postwar Italy. Porta conceived poetry as an open and endless project, a work in progress in which the exploration of language and the inquisitive gaze on the world always coincide. The result is a verbal tension and a cognitive restlessness that are […]
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IN DEFENCE OF ARCHITECTURE: ITALY AND US
Seminar Peter Eisenman is currently professor at the School of Architecture at Yale University and visiting professor at Princeton. He is one of the founding theorists of postmodern architecture.
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THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA
Italian Contemporary Art- Antonio Stellatelli Collection Book Presentation The book that we are going to present “This is not Propaganda” tells of the last twenty years of the history of Italian art. Not any old history, but the history that can be read through more than 400 artworks, paintings, sculptures and photographs, put together over […]
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DIEGO PERRONE: SCULTURA CHE NON SIA CONCHIGLIA NON CANTA
Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce Scultura che non sia conchiglia non canta, an exhibition of new work by Diego Perrone (b. 1970, Asti).Perrone’s work utilizes a vocabulary of repeated references including ears, horns and bells that result in various shapes and new forms. Despite these reiterations, his works do not coalesce into a singular […]
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Ravenna after Fifteen Centuries
“Ravenna after Fifteen Centuries” is a conference conceived to promote the Italian city of Ravenna.With a history that spans for more than fifteen centuries and with eight UNESCO monuments, the thrice empire capital Ravenna is now considered a model for a small global city. The initiative, prompted by the University of Bologna and Ravenna Municipality, […]
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GOTHAM PRIZE EXHIBITION
curator Laura Barreca Opening Thursday March 7 Conceived as an opportunity to present the excellence of young Italian artists in New York, The Gotham Prize is a project by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. By establishing this award, the Italian Cultural Institute intends to highlight its commitment to the promotion of contemporary young […]
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MATTEO GARRONE
A conversation with the director The director discusses his latest film, REALITY, as well as past projects, with Professor Antonio Monda Matteo Garrone is one of the most talented and well-known Italian filmmakers of his generation. In 2008 he won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Award, the European Film Best Director Award and the […]
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MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE PREMIERES NEW WORKS BY LUCIO GREGORETTI
The concert features the world premiere of a new work (Richiami) Gregoretti has written especially for the Jacob Burns Film Center’s International Film Artist-in-Residence program, the American Premiere of another recent composition of his, and a sample from one of his film scores, plus music by master composers who have deeply influenced him, including Igor […]
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Poetry and the City: MARINETTI and SCHNAPP: ModernVenice, ModernItalia
Presentation of the first edition of:Venezianella e Studentaccio (1944) (Oscar Mondadori, 2013) by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Modernitalia (Peter Lang Publishing, 2012) a collection of essays by Jeffrey Schnapp
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