The workshop Italian Interdisciplinary Modernism will take place on Friday, February 22 at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University, 24 West, 12th Street, New York NY. http://www.casaitaliananyu.org/.The first in a series of workshops funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK as part of the Research Networking Grants proj...

di Riccardo Chioni   Dopo oltre duemila anni il bronzo del "Pugilatore in riposo" per la prima volta ha lasciato l'Europa per venire a farsi ammirare per sei settimane al Metropolitan Museum, dove ieri si è svolta la presentazione alla stampa. Alla cerimonia era presente l'ambasciatore a Washington, Claudio Bisogniero, Stefano Lucchini...

by Frank Isola   Andrea Bargnani never became Toronto's answer to Dirk Nowitzki or Pau Gasol. Not even close. Instead, by the end of his disappointing seven-year run in Canada, Bargnani was starting to draw favorable comparisons to Kwame Brown, this generation's poster child for busts drafted with the top overall pick. When the Knicks last...

Rodolfo Marma nacque a Firenze nel 1923. Era di estrazione popolare. La sua vocazione artistica ebbe luogo in una città nella quale le attività artigianali prolungavano nel tempo una civiltà antica, senza fronzoli, abituata a dare un peso ed un valore alla bellezza.   Studiò all'Accademia di Belle Arti, dove ebbe come maestri Ugo Capocchini...

by Amelia Pang   Fabio Cucina Italiana, a new Italian culinary in Midtown East, will open on Feb. 5. Chef Fabio Hakill's menu features homemade pasta made from locally sourced ingredients.   Signature dishes include Fettuccine alla Fabio, made at your table by Chef Fabio with porcini mushrooms and a delicate sauce that enhances t...

The New York Cosmos today announced that they will honor legendary player Giorgio Chinaglia before the team's match on June 8, 5 p.m. ET against Ottawa at Hofstra University's Shuart Stadium.   Family members of the late Chinaglia, who played alongside Pelé during the 1970s, will be present during a special pregame ceremony to retire the str...

Operating Chef/Partner for a new "Old-School" Italian-American restaurant in Union Square. The restaurant opens mid-August so the position starts immediately.   This individual must exude pride in culinary excellence and demonstrate creativity and breadth in Italian cuisine. The chef must be capable of sound and profitable management techniq...

The artist behind the Garbage Patch State - a country without borders made of plastic detritus that floats in the oceans - is debuting with an installation in the lobby of the United Nations (UN) headquarters on September 29.   Designer, architect and artist Maria Cristina Finucci is making her artistic and environmental statement coincide w...

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. In 1899, he founded the Marconi Telegraph C...

di Daniela Tanzj e Andrea Bentivegna   In un periodo in cui il Bel paese sta faticosamente cercando di tirarsi fuori dal pantano di una crisi non più solo economica ma anche morale, fa ben sperare vedere che proprio dal design, antico vanto del nostro paese, arrivino incoraggianti segni di rinascita visto che proprio in questo ambito si vann...