Italian Design Day – Paola Antonelli and Mario Cucinella
On the occasion of the Italian Design Day, Mario Cucinella, architect, and curator of the Italian Pavilion at the next Biennale of Venice, and Paola Antonelli, chief curator at the MOMA and curator of the Triennale Design 2019, in a conversation about: design and sustainability. Paola Antonelli is senior curator in the department of […]
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Post War to Postmodern Italy Inspires Design
Judith Gura, author of the recently published book Postmodern Design Complete, and Marianne Lamonaca, Senior Curator/Associate Director of the Gallery at Bard Graduate Center, will discuss the most radical design movement of the 20th century, and Italy’s role in making it an international sensation. During the conversation they will support their remarks by showing several […]
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Fiorella Mannoia at Town Hall
Fiorella Mannoia, the female voice of Italian song, makes her American concert debut. In this long-awaited appearance, the audience will be treated to Mannoia’s interpretations of the songbook that has accompanied fans of Italian music for over two generations. This special event also serves as the wrap-up of The Combattente Tour, a string of exactly […]
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A Conversation with Fiorella Mannoia. In Italian
On the occasion of her first US appearance Italian pop singer Fiorella Mannoia in a conversation with Giancarlo Lombardi.(the event is in Italian) The Rome-born Fiorella Mannoia made her singing debut at the age of 14 at Italy’s Castrocaro Festival of New Voices and New Faces, immediately landing her first recording contract. The young Mannoia […]
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Exile and Creativity Series – Enrico Fermi
The series aims at highlighting the stories of many Italian artists, scientists, and intellectuals forced to leave Italy for political reasons, or for the racial laws, and to come to the United States, and focuses on how their exile has, not only influenced their personal paths and lives, in between the two wars, but has […]
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Outstanding Italian Women in the US Series- Ilaria Capua
Ilaria Capua, scientist, in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto, journalist. This is the first of several talks with Italian professional women that live and work in the US and are leaders or key figures in their field of expertise. Ilaria Capua, Director of the One Health Center of Excellence at the University of Florida, is […]
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Bernini and his Age – A conversation
On the occasion of the Fairfield University Art Museum exhibition The Holy Name Art of the Gesù: Bernini and his Age, a conversation with Linda Wolk-Simon and Xavier Salomon. Linda Wolk-Simon, Ph.D., Director and Chief Curator, Fairfield University Art Museum. Dr. Wolk-Simon specializes in European art of the 15th-19th century with a concentration on the […]
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LORENZO MATTOTTI COVERS FOR THE NEW YORKER
Twenty years of collaboration, illustrations on current events created at lightning speed, little glitches to solve, curious coincidences, sudden inspirations… all this can happen when one of the most renowned magazines in the world meets an amazing artist like Mattotti. In the prestigious headquarters of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, as well as […]
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Refugees, Rescue Efforts and International Politics: The Case of Angelo Donati
Luca Fenoglio (University of Leicester), is the author of Angelo Donati e la “questione ebraica” nella Francia occupata dall’esercito italiano (Silvio Zamorani, 2013). In this presentation he will analyze the rescue efforts orchestrated by Angelo Donati, a prominent Jewish lawyer from Modena who tried to find exit pathways for Jewish refugees caught in the Italian-occupied […]
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Holocaust Remembrance 2018
Join us for the annual ceremony of the reading of the names. On January 29, 2018, the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò at NYU, the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies and the Italian Academy at Columbia University, invite you to participate in the ceremony […]
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