Italian American Community Center to host annual Empty Bowls event
Greece, N.Y.The Italian American Community Center, 150 Frank DiMino Way, will host the 12th annual Empty Bowls Rochester at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 15. Participants will be able to share a simple meal and choose from handmade bowls to take home. The event also will include dessert, wine and beer tastings, a silent auction and music. Ticke...
Italianate Architecture: Classic Row Houses With Over-the-Top Leafy Ornament
The quintessential Brooklyn row house is the Italianate-style brownstone, homes with tall stoops, long windows and majestic entries. There is a perfect symmetry to their uniformity, a pleasing rhythm and solidity to brownstone blocks — especially when paired with old trees, overflowing flower boxes, and heavy cast iron railings. The Italia...
Maestro D’Arte Francesco Santoro Presents Art Classes and Lectures in NYC This Summer
Join NOIAW member and Maestro D'Arte Francesco Santoro for a series of art classes and art history lectures in New York City this summer! Born in Italy, Francesco Santoro had a passion for art at a very young age. His formal art training began in the 1970's, and today his artistic philosophy remains linked to his interest in painting as a mean...
Gala annuale dell'American Society of The italian Legions of Merit. Premi all'eccellenza italiana
Sotto lampadari di cristallo, tra decorazioni in oro, tendaggi damascati e orchestra sul palco della Grand Ballroom, si è svolto venerdì sera nel lussuoso Pierre Hotel il 47.mo gala annuale dell'American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit, con le decorazioni appuntate sulle giacche dell'abito da sera.Il gala si è svolto sotto l'alto patronato...
“Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, February 21-September 1, 2014 The exhibition of Italian Futurism now on view in the main rotunda at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City deals with the 20th century art movement whose ultimate fate was bound up with the betrayals of th...
Beatrice Scaccia e la sua arte, da Veroli a New York
di Liliana Rosano Beatrice Scaccia, inizia la sua carriera da studentessa all'Accademia delle Belle Arti di Roma. Si forma con grandi maestri come Marotta, Cipriani, Gatt. Grazie a loro prende, sempre più consapevolezza che l'arte avrebbe fatto parte della sua vita. Non ricorda quando decise di diventare un'artista, ma ricorda ben...
Learning Italian at the Metropolitan Opera
By Fred Plotkin I am writing this on a quick work trip that has me immersed in Italian conversation but, for the purposes of this article, my mind is back home in New York. Specifically at the Metropolitan Opera House. The first four operas of the Met season were Anna Bolena, Otello, Il Trovatore and Turandot. All operas had two t...
Arturo DiModica and His Charging Bull
By Giovanni di Napoli Since beginning this exercise in ethnic self-awareness I've intermittently written about New York City's public monuments by Sicilian Americans, specifically the works of Anthony de Francisci and Pietro Montana. However, no discussion of Sicilian-American sculptors would be complete without mentioning Arturo...
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum to Host NOT IN A TUSCAN VILLAGE Speaker, 9/13
On Saturday, September 13 at 2 pm, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will present a very special guest speaker. Nancy Petralia, along with her husband John, is author of "Not in a Tuscan Villa," which is currently a bestseller in the travel book section on Amazon.com. The book tells the real-life story of this middle-aged American couple who wen...
Young Italians and the arts: a talk with curator Massimiliano Gioni
by Silvia Simonetti Artistic director of the New Museum in New York since 2007 and of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan since 2003, among other professional experiences and projects, Massimiliano Gioni was the youngest curator ever of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Living between the U.S. and Italy - where he was born in...
Joe Manfredi remembered at New Dorp Beach ceremony
By Virginia N. Sherry In an emotional ceremony, Corrado "Joe" Manfredi, the Manfredi Auto Group owner who died in March, was remembered on Ebbitts Street in New Dorp Beach, with friends delivering tributes in both Italian and English. Speakers included long-time friends like Mike Pesce, who recalled the days when he and Manfredi, who was born...
The Light of Southern Italy- Exhibition Opening
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition: THE LIGHT OF SOUTHERN ITALY. Paintings from the 19th-Century Neapolitan School Wednesday, October, 7 2015 - 6PM Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York by RSVP only. Cocktail Attire Required T...