Book presentation: Everything Is Broken Up and Dances
A conversation with Edoardo Nesi author, along with Guido Maria Brera, of Everything Is Broken Up and Dances – The Crushing of the Middle Class, (translation by Antony Shugaar) and John Jeremiah Sullivan. This volume is a clear, engaging dialogue that explains how the role of economics and finance in the West has shifted in […]
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Studying Survival in the Context of Persecution
Groundbreaking research project opens new avenues to understand survival. During the past ten years, historian Liliana Picciotto has lead a groundbreaking research project at the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan: the development of a database of case-studies to analyze the ways in which Jews survived in Italy during the Fascist and Nazi persecution. […]
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Book Presentation: Paolo Cognetti and Edmund White
On the occasion of the publication in the U.S. of his first novel Le Otto Montagne – The Eight Mountains, translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, Simon&Schuster, 2018 Paolo Cognetti in conversation with Edmund White. Paolo Cognetti, an Italian writer and essayist born in Milan in 1978, divides his time between the city […]
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International Women’s Day with Erica Jong
An evening talk with internationally acclaimed author Erica Jong, on her experience as a woman writer but also on her special relationship to Italy and Italian culture. Jong will be in conversation with journalist Maria Teresa Cometto. Born and raised in New York, where she graduated in English literature at Columbia University, Erica Jong, born […]
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Figura Schroeder Duo
Antonio and Dave first met in 2015 during a Jazz Festival in Italy, and they have played together several times, since. In this occasion they will perform, for the first time, their latest compositions, to be included in the duo CD project that will be recorded in New York City on March 9 and 10 […]
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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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