FOOD SECURITY, GLOBALIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
The Legacy of Expo 2015 A Conversation Free and open to the public.Registration required: www.italianacademy.columbia.edu Maurizio Martina Italian Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, and Government Coordinator for Expo Milano 2015 with Glenn Denning Professor of Professional Practice, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) & Senior Policy Advisor, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), […]
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RETROPERSPECTIVE – The Commercial Years 1995-2015
With: Sean Oko Lennon, Waris Alhuwalia, Paz de la Huerta MICHELE CIVETTA Retroperspective is a survey of media work created by Michele Civetta over the period of 1985-2015. Spanning a gamut of work ranging from early Avante Garde short films to acclaimed advertising spots for an array of international brands. The program highlights music video […]
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LEARN ITALIAN
With native Italian speakers Introduction to: The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute andthe President of the Italian American Committee on Education, under the patronage of the Consulate General of Italy in New York, are pleased to invite you to spend an evening with us filled with Italian fun, food and wine. During this information […]
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Il mito urbano. Italia: città e paese
The Italian Specialization at the Graduate Center (CUNY) is happy to invite you to the lecture by Prof. Finotti (University of Pennsylvania) entitled “Il mito urbano. Italia: città e paese.” The lecture will be conducted in Italian and will take place on Friday, September 18 from 5.00-7.00 pm in the Comparative Literature Department, Room 4116. […]
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TRIBUTE TO FRANCESCO PENNISI (1934-2000)
A video-musical project based on F. Pennisi drawings and compositions Festival of Contemporary Music Dissonanzen presents a true multimedia show that summarizes the many aspects of the artistic and poetic world of Pennisi. In coordination with the video and graphic improvisations and choices of Andrea Pennisi, video-artist from Catania (nephew of F. Pennisi), it moves […]
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CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN DESIGNERS IN NEW YORK
Four young Italian designers, who have recently relocated to New York, will present their work and illustrate their creative process and methodology. A Q&A moderated by Allan Chochinov, Chair of the Products of Design MFA at School of Visual Arts, New York, will shed light on the professional aspects that have changed over the past […]
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PLATFORM
The New York Transit Museum presents PLATFORM, an exciting series of cross-disciplinary programs created by the public for the public.Live performance, documentary film, animated GIFs, clowns, prayer beads, and a ride on the culture loop — all set against the backdrop of the 1936 subway station home. This ongoing series of crowd-sourced programs invites “commuters […]
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FEDERICO VERCELLONE
Thinking and Imagination: Between Science and Art Book presentation Panelists:Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College) and Achille Varzi (Columbia Uni.) “Thinking and Imagination” makes a fundamental contribution to the understanding of the image as a new cultural environment and as the place where the knowledge of late-modern life is shaped. Developing critically Goethe’s notion of morphology, the […]
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CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI (1920)
An influential ‘classic’ of early cinema, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene eploits all technical of the time to convey dream-like visions and the distortion of reality. With a radical set-design, this film represents an early nexus between design, space, architecture, and image. The Ensemble Dissonanzen from Italy provides an improvised sound […]
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ASSUNTA SPINA (1915)
Dissonanzen Musical Ensamble Festival of Contemporary Music Dissonanzen Ensamble will feature a live sound-track of the masterpiece of the silent films’ “Assunta Spina” known to the foreign public also as “Neapolitan Blood “, of which this year marks the centenary of the production. It was, in fact produced well twenty years before the birth of […]
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