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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PIETRO DE MARIA PIANO SOLO CONCERT
Pietro De Maria After receiving the Critics’ Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1990), Pietro De Maria won First Prize in other prestigious international piano competitions, such as the Dino Ciani – Teatro La Scala in Milan (1990), the Géza Anda in Zurich (1994), and the Mendelssohn Award in Hamburg (1997). An active concert […]
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NICOLA LUISOTTI
For the Series Italian Conductors in New York: Maestro Nicola Luisotti in conversation with Harvey Sachs. Maestro Luisotti has been music director of San Francisco Opera since 2009 and has conducted over 40 operas and concerts since his Company debut in 2005. Luisotti, who holds the Caroline H. Hume Endowed Chair, recently conducted the Company’s […]
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JAMES IVORY
The Institute is pleased to host an evening with director James Ivory whose iconic movie A Room with a View won three Oscars in 1997, thirty years ago. With the participation of the authors and professors André Aciman and Antonio Monda. Most recently, James Ivory wrote the screenplay for Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming adaptation of André […]
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MANAGERS: FROM ITALY TO TOP GLOBAL BUSINESSES
Claudio Del Vecchio, President and CEO of Brooks Brothers Group, is the guest of the third of a series of events which focus on the excellence of Italian human capital and personal success stories by presenting Italian top managers holding important positions in global companies. He will be in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. […]
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