IDACO “ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION”- Third Edition
Opening night and round table on the occasion of the third edition of IDACO Italian Contemporary Dance and Art event in NYC – June 2-3-4, 2017. Reception, program presentation, video screening and site specific performance. “IDACO nyc” 2017 will focus on the theme TransformAction, in an effort to draw attention to artistic responses to ongoing […]
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MAURIZIO POLLINI
Italian musicians in New York series: Maurizio Pollini in conversation with Harvey Sachs. In a career spanning nearly 60 years Maurizio Pollini is one of the great piano legends. He has a broad repertoire ranging from Bach to contemporary composers and has recorded works from the classical, Romantic and contemporary repertoire to worldwide critical acclaim. […]
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PANORAMA EUROPE – The Stuff of Dreams
The 2017 edition of the Panorama Europe Film Festival features seventeen vibrant works—including witty comedies, gritty thrillers, and timely documentaries—representing some of the finest and most riveting films coming out of Europe today. Coordinated by Gaelle Duchemin, European Union Delegation to the United Nations in partnership with the Czech Center New York/Bohemian National Hall, it […]
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WILLIAM FINNEGAN READS ELENA FERRANTE
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of Salone del Libro di Torino/Turin International Book Fair journalist and writer William Finnegan will read and comment selected texts by Elena Ferrante. William Finnegan has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1984 and a staff writer since 1987. Reporting from Africa, Central America, South America, […]
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MARIO FRATTI AWARD
Award ceremony and reading of the play winner of the fourth edition of the Mario Fratti Award: Paolo Bignami’s Il paese delle facce gonfie – The Country of the Swollen Faces”. Both the Author and Mario Fratti will attend the ceremony. This is also the closing night of IN SCENA! Festival The artistic direction of […]
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EUROPEAN ART AT THE TIME OF THE TREATIES OF ROME – Informel, Abstraction, Zero, around 1957
The exhibition, organized by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura / Italian Cultural Institute in New York and curated by Francesco Guzzetti, Post-doctoral research fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at the eminent Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. On March 25, 1957 the representatives of the governments […]
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SANDRO VERONESI- DON’T TELL
NON DIRLO/DON’T TELL – IL VANGELO DI MARCO/THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARCO by and with SANDRO VERONESI Produced by Teatro Metastasio di Prato in collaboration with Fosforo (Toscana) Translated by Chiara Marchelli’s NYU Translation course students: Laura Donnelly, Britta Gigliotti, Melissa Greene, Beatrice Masih, Emma Schertz, Lyubing Teng, Kasane Tonegawa, Olivia Wang, Samuel Zawacki. Edited […]
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ITALY AND THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MIGRANT CRISIS
The Euro-Mediterranean migrant crisis prompted by the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East continues to be discussed with increasing frequency in the media as well as in public debates, featuring experts from diverse backgrounds. Still, among the various perspectives presented, the Italian one has not been as central as its crucial role in […]
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CLAUDIO MAGRIS
We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances Ms Jamaica Kincaid will not be present at the event. On the occasion of the publication in the United States of Claudio Magri’s latest novel, Blameless, the world-famous Italian writer will be in conversation with Norman Manea. Claudio Magris’s searing new novel ruthlessly confronts […]
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JONATHAN BLOW ON ITALO CALVINO AND VIDEO GAMES
In 1984, Italo Calvino was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. Before his death he was able to complete five of the six planned lectures on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. The lectures, collected as Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are now available in a celebrated new […]
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