Michelangelo and Versilia
Art Exihibt from December 4 2014 to January 4 2015 The Consulate General of Italy together with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, and the four Cities of the Medicean Versilia – Pietrasanta, Seravezza, Forte dei Marmi and Stazzema – present “Michelangelo and Versilia”, an initiative organized to illustrate the excellences of the territory […]
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THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM IN LUIGI EINAUDI’S VIEW
Born in 1874, Luigi Einaudi was one of the most influential European economists of his time and President of the Italian Republic from 1948 to 1955. His main field of interest was public finance, but rather than pure theory, he cultivated history. He believed that in history one could trace the origin of most of […]
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MARIO FRATTI INTERPRETING EDUARDO DE FILIPPO
Reading from and commenting on Filumena Marturano With MARIO FRATTI and GIULIA BISINELLA In the balmy heat of late ’40s of last century in Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years. But no sooner has the priest completed […]
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Moira Lo Bianco Trio – Lunaria
Moira Lo Bianco – Pianist, CompositionsPetros Klampanis – double bass Marcello Pellitteri – drums December 1st, Italian pianist Moira Lo Bianco and her trio – featuringPetros Klampanis on double bass and Marcello Pellitteri on drums – perform works from her album Lunaria. Not only a fascinating concept, Lunaria is a collection of Moira’s compositions influenced […]
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MARIO MONICELLI: TRIBUTE TO THE MAESTRO OF COMMEDIA ALL’ITALIANA
Film Forum has an upcoming series they are hosting featuring films from the infamous Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli. Commedia all’italiana dominated an era of hilarious, farcical comedy, “Italian Style,” but with a biting edge and sense of melancholia. Working with the greatest stars of his day, including Totó, Gassman, Sordi, Loren, Mastroianni, and Magnani, perhaps […]
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JAZZIN’ AROUND BAROCCO PROJECT
Concert Paola Quagliata is a singer who has worked in many of Italy’s most important opera houses. Her repertoire consists mostly of baroque and 18th century music, both of which she has studied in-depth and performed with renowned musicians such as Ottavio Dantone, Gabriel Garrido, E. L. Banzo, Rubèn Dubrovsky and Roberto de Simone. However, […]
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FREDERICK II HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR
SOUTHERN ITALY AT THE CROSSROADS OF EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES Lecture The extraordinary and sometimes underestimated legacy of Frederick’s reign between 1220 and 1250 is the subject of a lecture by Louis Hamilton. The era of Frederick’s rule has justifiably been described as the “first Renaissance.” However, whereas the later Italian Renaissance flourished primarily in […]
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Monk With a Camera
Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1972. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a photographer, Nicholas’ life changed drastically upon meeting a Tibetan master, one of the teachers of the Dalai Lama. Soon thereafter, he gave […]
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MARCONI AND HIS INTUITIONS
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Round Table Born in Bologna, Italy in 1874, died in Rome in 1937, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi did the groundbreaking work necessary for all future radio technology. Through his experiments in wireless telegraphy, Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication. […]
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THE BRIDGE AT 50-Gay Talese on New York’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
A conversation between acclaimed Italian-American writer Gay Talese and longtime New York Times columnist and reporter Clyde Haberman about the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and the stories of the workers who built it.
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