MAKE IN ITALY-50 YEARS OF ITALIAN BREAKTHROUGHS
FROM THE FIRST PC TO THE FIRST SPACE-BOUND ESPRESSO MACHINE Exhibition-On View from Nov.13 to Nov. 25 2015 Mon/Fri 10am to 5pm “The first desktop computer in the world”: this is how America welcomed the launch of Programma 101 (P101) in New York in 1965. Created by a small group of “crazy” young Italian engineers […]
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FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI: The Artist and his Politics
By Ernest Ialongo Book Presentation A panel presentation of Ernest Ialongo’s new book Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and his Politics (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015). The panel will consider the book and its contributions to the historiography of Italian Futurism, but also more broadly discuss the intersection of art and politics in […]
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Janet Abramowicz in conversation with Emily Braun
Artist Janet Abramowicz, author of Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence (Yale UP, 2005), studied under Giorgio Morandi at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and subsequently became his teaching assistant. She will discuss her recollections of the artist and thoughts on the work at CIMA with Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor of Art History […]
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VIE Performed by Michael Capozzi
Are you witnessing your life or living it? A silent comedy show, which will make you laugh and reflect on the beauty of imperfection. Tragedy, comedy…a silent elegy of 75 minutes to life and laugh with the versatile Italian actor Michael Capozzi. 2015 United Solo is the world’s largest solo theatre festival, currently in its […]
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BREATH OF FREEDOM -Matteo Pugliese
Bertrand Delacroix Gallery is thrilled to announce Matteo Pugliese‘s highly anticipated major solo exhibition, Breath of Freedom. The Italian sculptor is known internationally for his muscular bronze men emerging from walls in unexpected, fragmented pieces, a series the artist has named Extra Moenia (outside the walls). Pugliese’s debut US solo exhibition will present new works […]
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NICCOLO’ AMMANITI
Lecture – Niccolò Ammaniti (Author)
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THE GREG RUVOLO BIG BAND
Concert The Greg Ruvolo band invites all appreciators of art and Italian culture to partake in this evening of art & music, that marks the closing of the exhibition “Light of Southern Italy”. The exhibit honors those forebears that embarked on a most courageous journey across the ocean to ensure a better life for their […]
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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 1975-2015
Theatrical Performance Forty years ago, Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered on the outskirts of Rome, under circumstances that still remain unclear today. His multifaceted personality as a poet, a filmmaker and a novelist, made him the public intellectual par excellence, as proven by the range of guests Casa Italiana at NYU has invited over the […]
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LA CULTURA ITALIANA, LA SVIZZERA, DINO CAMPANA
Lecture by prof. R. Martinoni SETTIMANA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA Lecture by prof. Renato Martinoni (Universita’ di San Gallo) “Sullo sfondo le Alpi il bianco delicato mistero. La cultura italiana, la Svizzera e Dino Campana”. In collaboration with Swiss Consulate of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Under the High Patronage of the President of the […]
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