Monteverdi at 450: Experiments in Sound, Image, and Movement
With a concert, two discussions, and an exhibition of materials related to Luciano Berio’s “revisitation” of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, a collection now held at the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel), these two days of events explore Monteverdi’s impact on the music and ideas of the 20th and 21st centuries, and how his work stimulated artists […]
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Reshaping the Past – The Seven “Secrets” of Christopher Columbus
This is the first of two talks -the second will take place in December and will be dedicated to “Memory, Monuments and Community”- on the political use of history. The animated discussion that in recent times has taken place about both the figure of Colombo and the presence of monuments dedicated to the representatives of […]
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MONTEVERDI – Concert
This year marks the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s birth (1567–1643) who is considered one of the most important composers of the early Baroque period of both secular and sacred music, and the pioneer in the development of opera. His music characterizes the end of the Renaissance style and the beginning of Baroque. This year marks […]
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The Jewish Community of Rome in New York
In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi and Rome Lab Project, a lecture on The Arch of Titus, the Jews, and the Ceremony of the Adventus. Marina Caffiero will discuss the symbolism of the ceremony of the Papal adventus, its transformation over time and the role of the Jews. In the Middle Ages, Roman Jews used […]
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Panel Discussion with Artists featured in Now Here is Nowhere
Please join us for a discussion among four of the six artists featured in the exhibition, NOW HERE IS NOWHERE: Six Artists from the American Academy in Rome: CARL D’ALVIA (2013 Fellow)Artist TOMASO DE LUCA (2017 Italian Fellow)Artist JACKIE SACCOCCIO (2005 Fellow)Artist NARI WARD (2013 Fellow)Artis and Professor, Hunter College Moderated by:VIVIEN GREENE (2004 Fellow)Senior […]
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THE DUEL OF WINE Screening
On the occasion of the of N.I.C.E USA 2017 New Italian Film Events screening of the movie The Duel of Wine by Nicolás Carreras. Synopsis: Famed sommelier Charlie Arturaola fell from grace after a momentary loss of his taste during the shooting of a movie. The image of “a Sommelier without palate” destroyed his career […]
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Book presentation of “Those who from afar look like flies”
A panel discussion to present Those who from afar look like flies, an anthology of Italian poetry from Pasolini to 1975, edited by Luigi Ballerini e Beppe Cavatorta, University of Toronto Press. The book is part of the Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library, an organic collection of Italian texts translated into English. Its role is to […]
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N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events
N.I.C.E serves as a crucial venue for the showcase and the circulation of the best up-and-coming made in Italy film projects to the international cinema‘s markets. Every year, the international selection committee of N.I.C.E. selects seven/eight titles (first or second work) among the tens of movies produced in Italy throughout the year. Those films, together […]
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NOW HERE IS NOWHERE Six Artists from the American Academy in Rome
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THE EXHIBITION WILL CLOSE DECEMBER 4 The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome, and curated by Christian Caliandro. It is a creative dialogue between American and Italian artists, rising from the understanding that parallel ideas are processed and articulated on the two […]
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Italian contemporary art in New York
The opening of CIMA (Center for Italian modern art) first, followed by Magazzino Italian Art (to which is dedicated the photo exhibition currently on view at the Institute) shows confidence about the interest for Italian art from early 1900s to contemporary art. In this respect, the extensive exhibition dedicated to Burri at the Guggenheim Museum […]
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