Talking Pictures – The Visual Book Now
TALKING PICTURES – The Visual Book Now is a series of events, presented on the occasion of the New York Rights Fair, which will look at contemporary publishing through the lens of visual language and imagery. As the culture has become increasingly visual, the visual book has flourished in the publishing industry and has attracted […]
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IDACO nyc – Italian DAnce COnnection Festival
IDACO nyc is a platform for both Italian and New York artists who want to take part in a dialogue with Italian culture, exploring and sharing their unique paths through movement, choreography and visual arts. IDACO nyc aims at encouraging artistic research and network building, crossing cultural boundaries and cultivating a sense of shared identity. […]
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IDACO nyc – Opening Night
Opening night of IDACO nyc – Italian DAnce COnnection 2018 Edition – May 24-27. Reception, program presentation, video screening and site specific performance. IDACO nyc is an international, collaborative dance and art event in its fourth year, that presents a wide variety of performing experiences featuring the participation of more than 20 dance companies, artists and […]
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Canova e la Danza
The exhibition “Canova e la Danza” presents sixteen tempera paintings, made between 1799 and 1806, by the great Italian artist Antonio Canova, a premier for the American public, and on view again for the first time following their recent restoration. The paintings are a loan from the Gipsoteca e Museo Canova, (Canova Museum and Plaster Casts […]
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2018 Mario Fratti Award -In Scena ! Closing Night
Reading and Award ceremony of the Winner of the 2018 Mario Fratti Award for Excellence in Italian Playwriting: The City Rises (La città che sale) by Chiara Boscaro and Marco Di Stefano. The City Rises is a mosaic of interconnected stories about a changing city, Milan, and its inhabitants–victims and perpetrators that include a mayor, […]
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Panorama Europe Film Festival
Panorama Europe Film Festival returns for its tenth year with a selection of sixteen feature films and one short program, from May 4 to May 31, at Museum of the Moving Image and Bohemian National Hall. It opens on Friday, May 4 with the experimental art-world documentary thriller The End of Fear. The Italian film […]
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Exile and Creativity Series – Concert: Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco’s composition
The fourth evening of the series Exile and Creativity is dedicated to a musician who, because of the racial laws, like many intellectuals and politicians, was forced to immigrate to the United States. What better way to honor him than performing his music. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian […]
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Speranza Scappucci in conversation with Harvey Sachs
Italian born conductor Speranza Scappucci recently made a successful Vienna debut acclaimed by the public and critics alike with La Traviata and La Cenerentola at the Vienna State Opera. In February 2017, she was the first female conductor to direct the orchestra in the annual Vienna Opera Ball. She is considered one of the most […]
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Beautiful Day Without You – Marco Calvani
As part of the European Month of Culture 2018 organized by Origin Theater Company, world premier reading of Beautiful Day Without You, commissioned by Origin to Italian playwright Marco Calvani. Directed by Erwin Maas, the play will be presented as a work in progress. Cast includes Michael Edwards, Richarda Abrams & Anne Son. The story: […]
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Outstanding Italian Women Series – Monica Mandelli
The last talk of the series is with Monica Mandelli. Monica Mandelli earned a BS and MS summa cum laude in Economics and Social Science from Milan’s Università Bocconi and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. She started her career working first at Merrill Lynch in London, in their mergers & acquisitions group, […]
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