Calvino a trent’anni dalla morte
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY,the Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College, CUNY, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the Italian Specialization at The Graduate Center, CUNY, the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation, and the Italian Club of Hunter College. 4.00-4.15 pm Opening remarks – Prof. Paolo Fasoli, […]
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IL DEMONE DI MEZZOGIORNO – the noon demon 2015
OFFICIAL SELECTION at New York City International Film FestivalSynopsis: In this age that wildly devoures everything, THE NOON DEMON offers to the public a non-place to let go, breathe deep, do not expect or be forced to figure it all out. Dream images, sudden awakenings, reality, flashes of adrenaline, voices that merge for a while, […]
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IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY
Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, presents the third annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY. This 17-day festival will offer 9 fully-staged productions from Italy, among other events and activities. Shows will be presented in all five boroughs of New York at venues including The Secret Theater, Theatre […]
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The aesthetic of my disappearance
Arianna Carossa The aesthetic of my disappearance In her first book, “The aesthetic of my disappearance”, Arianna Carossa aims to overturn the same concept of what is commonly defined as a “catalogue” or artist’s book. There isn’t any image in this book, but nine interviews. Nine interviews made by nine curators, who imagine an ideal […]
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Art vs Market between Italy and the US
Panelists: Francesco Guzzetti (Scuola Normale Superiore, CIMA) Inge Reist (Frick Collection) Florence Lynch (LYNCH THAM GALLERY) Panel Discussion: The relationships between Italy and the United States during the 20th century are intertwined with art. Artistic exchanges between the two countries relationship play a key role in shaping their mutual trends of taste, cultural history and […]
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Roque Fucci
Gotham Prize 2014 Winner Exhibition Opening Incipit scriptum indefinibile sed omnino probatum a committente.An official and traditional presentation isn’t suitable for such a “social”, anti-academic and anti-institutional artist as Roque Fucci. The “character”, as said above, prefers a self-introduction: life and works paucis verbis. Maria Enrica Gemme I was born in Buenos Aires in the […]
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Brain Science Now: Treatment and Discoveries from Italian Scientists at the Academy
The Academy devotes substantial resources to neuroscience: it offers the Alexander Bodini Research Fellowship and sponsors other Fellowships each year in this field, and presents annual public symposia with leaders in this area. To spotlight the promising younger researchers who come from Italy to Columbia, we offer this panel —moderated by Columbia neurophysiologist David Sulzer— […]
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Being Leonardo Da Vinci-an impossible interviewA show by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory
Being Leonardo Da Vinci-an impossible interviewA show by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory Leonardo’s true life portrayed on stage. One will discover not only the painter, but the scientist as well, and beyond the scientist, the inventor. His story, secrets, methods of working, passions and lifelong advice will be told in Renaissance Italian.
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Omaggio a Severino Gazzelloni ‘il flauto d’oro italiano’
incontro con Luisa Sello e Bruno Canino The International flautist Luisa Sello and one of the best chamber musician of our time, the pianist Bruno Canino, forma duo with a special and unique common denominator; the legend of the Golden Flute in the last Century, whose name was Severino Gazzelloni. Both spent their artistic life […]
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Where the Wild Books Are
A year ago, noted children’s book specialist Betsy Bird reported on the School Library Journal’s blog that many U.S. publishers and librarians were opposed to buying or republishing picture books first issued overseas. American publishers, Bird said, rejected non-U.S. works as culturally inscrutable or inappropriate for American audiences—a controversial opinion that stems the flow of […]
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