https://www.wetheitalians.com/default https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/plaque-new-york-remember-arturo-di-modica-and-his-wall-street-bull https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/plaque-new-york-remember-arturo-di-modica-and-his-wall-street-bull Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A plaque was delivered on the occasion of June 2, Italy's Republic Day, to commemorate Arturo Di Modica, the sculptor originally from Vittoria, Sicily, who is world famous for the Wall Street Bull. It was delivered into the hands of New York Mayor Eric Adams by Antonino Laspina, director of the Italian Trade Agency. The plaque certifying the authorship of the Charging Bull, the famous Wall Street bull, reads, "The statue is a creation of Sicilian sculptor Arturo Di Modica. He was born in Vittoria in 1941 and arrived in New York to live and work in 1971. This work is Arturo's gift to the city o...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/chef-rich-torrisi-and-major-food-group-team-robin-hood-new-york-citys-largest-poverty-fighting-philanthropy https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/chef-rich-torrisi-and-major-food-group-team-robin-hood-new-york-citys-largest-poverty-fighting-philanthropy Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Ever since opening in Lower Manhattan last December, Torrisi Bar & Restaurant has enjoyed status as the hardest reservation in town. A multitude of articles and social media posts are dedicated to helping hack your way to a table inside. Now chef Rich Torrisi and his co-owners from Major Food Group are leveraging that popularity for philanthropic purposes. Today they announce a lasting partnership with Robin Hood, a New York City-based charity that has invested nearly $3 billion in poverty relief over the past 35 years. It’s part of an initiative known as Major Good, which initially debuted ba...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/st-anthony-padua-italian-festival-weekend-harrison https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/st-anthony-padua-italian-festival-weekend-harrison Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Italian culture is alive and music is in the air in West Harrison once again this weekend at the St. Anthony of Padua Church Festa Italiana. The festivities kick off Friday night and continue through Sunday. The celebration of all things Italian will include food, games and activities for all ages and live music. Proceeds from the Festa will be used to subsidize the cost of maintenance and upkeep of the church. The three-day event will feature the return of Italian dramatic tenor Gianpaolo DiGrazia to Westchester, who will be performing on Friday and Saturday nights. The "Bel Canto" singer has...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/restitution-ceremony-rare-document-italy-iic-ny https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/restitution-ceremony-rare-document-italy-iic-ny Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Restitution Ceremony of a Rare Document to Italy presented by Monuments Men and Women Foundation, June 6, 2023, 11AM. In the period 1945–1951, the Monuments Men and Women found and returned to the rightful owners more than 4 million works of art and cultural objects stolen by the Nazis. Still, hundreds of thousands of objects — including paintings, drawings, sculpture, tapestries, and rare documents — are missing. Some of these objects are in the United States, brought here by veterans, immigrants, and art dealers. To date, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation has located and returned more t...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/rochesters-little-italy-neighborhood-celebrate-its-4th-anniversary-friday-noon-rockys-jay-st https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/rochesters-little-italy-neighborhood-celebrate-its-4th-anniversary-friday-noon-rockys-jay-st Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Rochester's Little Italy Historic District (an official city neighborhood and nationally-recognized historic Italian American enclave) will celebrate its 4th Anniversary this Friday, June 2nd, 2023, at noon at Rocky's Italian Restaurant on Jay Street (one of our neighborhood's most iconic and historic Italian American owned businesses.) The Little Italy neighborhood was originally designated by Rochester City Council proclamation (the city's main legislative body) on June 2nd, 2019. The Little Italy Neighborhood has since then also obtained national recognition as a "historic Italian American...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/book-immigrant-nyc-cops-italian-squad-fought-mafia-anarchists-and-bigotry https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/book-immigrant-nyc-cops-italian-squad-fought-mafia-anarchists-and-bigotry Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 If you’re going up against the mob, you’d better have a gang. The New York Police Department put one together back in 1904. New immigrants, and new kinds of crime, were flooding the city and the old Irish cops on the beat didn’t understand either. It was time to launch a special force. They called it “The Italian Squad.” Paul Moses’ latest book pays homage to these officers in “The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia.” It’s also a story of ethnic stereotypes, immigration battles, and police brutality. It began one sweltering turn-of-the-century...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/corning-celebrates-its-friendship-italian-sister-city https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/corning-celebrates-its-friendship-italian-sister-city Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 People from Corning’s sister city in Italy, San Giovanni Valdarno, celebrated their long-lasting friendship with the people of Corning. Corning’s Mayor William Boland and San Giovanni Valdarno’s Mayor Valentina Vadi exchanged loving embraces, gifts, and decide to re-sign their allegiance to one another, that has been intact for 20 years. Mayor Boland and Mayor Vadi both put emphasis on how strong their “sister cities relationship” truly is.  “San Giovanni Valdarno reached, originally, to the City of Corning to be in solidarity with us for 9/11,” Mayor Boland said. “The foundation of our friend...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/grand-mulberry-uses-custom-formed-brick-animate-new-york-facade https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/grand-mulberry-uses-custom-formed-brick-animate-new-york-facade Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 In 1932, 98 percent of the heads of households in the area of New York City now variously known as Little Italy, Soho, or the Lower East Side were Italian emigrants, The New York Times reported. This wave of immigrants, who largely arrived in the U.S. from the 1880s through the 1920s, were preceded by the Italianate, a mid-19th-century tripartite style of ornamentation and brickwork that changes as the building rises.  Almost a century later, the area’s demographics have changed. But for the facade of the Grand Mulberry, a seven-story, 20-unit building at 185 Grand Street completed last year a...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-american-tony-di-piazzas-association-donates-20000-library-romagna https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-american-tony-di-piazzas-association-donates-20000-library-romagna Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The hearts of Italian Americans in support of the people of Emilia Romagna devastated by the floods. An important solidarity initiative starts from Tony Di Piazza, former vice president of Palermo calcio, and his cultural group, Associazione culturale italiana di New York, of which the Italian American is chairman. In fact, $20,000 will be donated to support cultural assets and headquarters of associations engaged in aggregation, development of cultural projects, training and musical activities in the areas of Faenza and Forlì, where the floods seriously damaged many of them. Associazione cult...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/cinema-guild-books-june-release-umberto-eco-library-world-documentary-about-italian-literary-giants-voluminous-interests https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/cinema-guild-books-june-release-umberto-eco-library-world-documentary-about-italian-literary-giants-voluminous-interests Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cinema Guild announced it will release the film, directed by Davide Ferrario, beginning June 30 at Film Forum in New York City, followed by an expansion across the country. Umberto Eco: A Library of the World, which takes viewers inside Eco’s extraordinary personal library, premiered at the Rome Film Festival last October. We have your first look at the documentary in the trailer above. “A documentary immersion into all things Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Umberto Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself,” according to a description of the film. “Combining new fo...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/emma-and-angel-central-park-story-new-york-icon-and-woman-who-created-it https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/emma-and-angel-central-park-story-new-york-icon-and-woman-who-created-it Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 My book Emma and the Angel of Central Park. The Story of a New York Icon and the Woman who Created It is the first biography ever of Emma Stebbins, the first woman to receive a public art commission in New York City. Her iconic Bethesda Fountain with the Angel of the Waters will celebrate its 150 year anniversary on May 31st and my book comes out at the end of the month, to coincide with the anniversary. Emma Stebbins was part of a group of American women sculptors who lived in Rome in the 19th century -- a group Henry James dubbed “the white marmorean flock.” She was born in New York City and...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/james-saraceni-recognized-outstanding-italian-american-2023 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/james-saraceni-recognized-outstanding-italian-american-2023 Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 James Saraceni is the son of Thomas and Louise (Belluci) Saraceni. His grandparents, Arthur and Amelia (Soccio), immigrated to America from Vasto, Italy, which is located on the Adriatic Sea. They had the courage to leave their country, for a better life, at the young age of sixteen. They had twelve children. His maternal grandparents, Biaggio and Anna Bellucci also came to America in the early 1900s. He has strong Italian roots. Jim grew up on the south side of Batavia. He is a 1980 graduate of Batavia High School, furthering his education at Genesee Community College and the University at Bu...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/metropolitan-museum-art-display-special-loan-colossal-limestone-giant-monte-prama-foundation-sardinia-italy https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/metropolitan-museum-art-display-special-loan-colossal-limestone-giant-monte-prama-foundation-sardinia-italy Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the significant loan from the Mont’e Prama Foundation, Sardinia, Italy, of a colossal limestone statue of a boxer known as Manneddu (mannu in Sardinian means “large”). The nearly seven-foot-tall figure, dating from about 900–750 BCE, will be on view for six months—from May 25 through December 6, 2023—in Gallery 150 of The Met’s Greek and Roman Art galleries. This important loan is the first agreement between The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Mont’e Prama Foundation; it was organized with the support of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and in...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-residents-visit-batavia-reunion https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-residents-visit-batavia-reunion Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Descendants from Valva, Italy will be meeting for a second time to share stories and to make new connections at Roman’s restaurant in the downstairs lounge on May 27. The activity will take place 3 to 5 p.m. at the restaurant on 59 Main St. Those interested can bring a copy of their family tree to share with others. Many families immigrated to Batavia from Valva, event organizers said in a news release. In some social circles Batavia was referred to as “Little Valva.” The group first met in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/countdown-500th-anniversary-giovanni-da-verrazzanos-discovery-new-york-city-underway https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/countdown-500th-anniversary-giovanni-da-verrazzanos-discovery-new-york-city-underway Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Click here to view video announcement. Verrazzano, the son of a noble family, was born at the Castello Verrazzano in Greve near Florence, Italy. In his early 20s he moved to Dieppe to start a maritime career, and sailed on behalf of the French monarchy. In 1523, with the support of the French king Francois I, as well as Florentine bankers, Verrazzano set sail on the ship Dauphine in search of a passage to the Pacific Ocean and the Far East. On this voyage, Verrazzano explored the coast line now comprising the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, and, on April 17, 1524, became the...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/passport-renewal-applications-exclusively-italians-residing-long-island-ny https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/passport-renewal-applications-exclusively-italians-residing-long-island-ny Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Notice is hereby given to compatriots registered with AIRE and residing in the Long Island area of New York State that on Friday, May 12, 2023 starting at 9:00 a.m. it will be possible to apply for a passport by appointment at the premises of the Order of Sons and Daughters of Italy Lodge in Glen Cove, NY.Interested parties can request an appointment as of now and until May 9, 2023 by emailing newyork.missioni@esteri.it and attaching the application form downloadable here and copy of previous passport (if held). Compatriots will receive an email confirming the appointment, which will indicate...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italy-donates-125-year-old-olive-tree-future-ambassadors-peace-un https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italy-donates-125-year-old-olive-tree-future-ambassadors-peace-un Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 On May 5th, 2023, the Italian Permanent Mission to the United Nations will donate a 125-year-old olive tree to the United Nations International School (UNIS) as a symbol of peace. The tree was previously displayed at the Growing Peace Exhibit, which showcased the centennial of aeronautics at the UN. The Italian Ambassador, Gianluca Greco, will attend the donation ceremony, alongside other high-ranking officials, including Maj. General Fabrizio Parrulli and Col. Rosario D’Auria.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/senator-borrello-announces-emmy-award-winning-celebrity-chef-lidia-bastianich-be-honoree-2023-italian-american-day-albany https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/senator-borrello-announces-emmy-award-winning-celebrity-chef-lidia-bastianich-be-honoree-2023-italian-american-day-albany Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Senator George Borrello, President of the Conference of Italian-American State Legislators, has announced that celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich, the Emmy award-winning public television host, best‐selling author and restaurateur, will be a 2023 Italian-American of the Year honoree for this year’s Italian-American Day on Monday, May 22. The annual event celebrating Italian heritage and culture is one of the most popular legislative events in Albany. In announcing Lidia Bastianich’s participation, Senator Borrello emphasized her role in keeping alive the traditions and cuisine of Italy through he...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/tower-venice-ribbon-cutting https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/tower-venice-ribbon-cutting Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 We are thrilled to announce the upcoming ribbon cutting ceremony of the Tower of Light, a stunning addition to the Garibaldi Meucci Museum (420 Tompkins Ave, Staten Island, NY). The ribbon cutting ceremony will take place on May 21st at 5.30 pm, and we would like to invite you all to join us for this momentous occasion. RSVP FOR RIBBON CUTTING  The Tower of Light is a beacon of hope and a tribute to Meucci's groundbreaking invention. Standing tall at the museum's entrance, it will illuminate the community and serve as a symbol of inspiration for generations to come. This tower has been in the...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/germano-celant-research-center-opens-magazzino-italian-art https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/germano-celant-research-center-opens-magazzino-italian-art Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 On April 29, 2023, Magazzino Italian Art inaugurated the Germano Celant Research Center, honoring the life of this renowned art historian, critic, and curator—one of the most prominent figures in postwar and contemporary Italian art. Magazzino commemorates Celant’s influence, close friendship, and pivotal role in inspiring the museum’s founding. In 1967, at the age of 27, Celant curated a group exhibition at La Bertesca Gallery in Genoa entitled Arte Povera – Im Spazio which included two exhibitions, one of which presented for the first time the seminal poveristi artists Boetti, Fabro, Kounell...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/niaf-new-york-gala-2023-review https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/niaf-new-york-gala-2023-review Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thanks to the generous support of the Italian and Italian American communities, the National Italian American Foundation’s Annual New York Gala gathered 700 guests at Cipriani 42nd Street®, the Italian Renaissance inspired venue located in the heart of Manhattan, on Thursday, April 20, 2023. The annual NIAF New York Gala honored four outstanding Italian Americans including Angelo Vivolo, Beth T. Mazzeo, Silvio Petriello, and Tony Lo Bianco, by bestowing upon them the NIAF Special and Lifetime Achievement Awards for their contributions in philanthropy, business, real estate, and entertainment....
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/somewhere-queens-places-its-loving-italian-american-heart-everywhere https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/somewhere-queens-places-its-loving-italian-american-heart-everywhere Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Filmmakers enjoy setting essential scenes at Italian weddings, whether they’re the centerpiece of a delightful romantic comedy like “Lovers and Other Strangers” or showcased in a classic crime drama like “The Godfather.” At the Versailles Palace, a neighborhood banquet hall in Queens, weddings share the spotlight with parties celebrating birthdays, engagements, retirements, baptisms and confirmations. The new comedy-drama “Somewhere In Queens” uses its banquet hall as the staging area for introducing us to the Russo family, a colorful and occasionally boisterous Italian-American family that, t...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/flotus-dr-biden-helps-noiaw-honors-3-italian-americans-annual-luncheon https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/flotus-dr-biden-helps-noiaw-honors-3-italian-americans-annual-luncheon Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The National Organization of Italian American Women, the 43-year-old not-for-profit founded to connect, inspire and empower its members through its shared culture and heritage, announced the honorees at this year’s annual luncheon will be: Mary Calvi, TV News Anchor/Author; Cristina Carabetta, Attorney and Founder, Betta Bag, & Chair, National Italian American Bar Association; Joseph Sciame, Vice President, St. John’s University & President, Sons of Italy Foundation. The trio will be recognized for their professional accomplishments and their contributions to the Italian American community as...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/lecture-cav-dr-gilda-rorro-tuesday-may-16 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/lecture-cav-dr-gilda-rorro-tuesday-may-16 Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Join us Tuesday, May 16 at the Columbus Citizens Foundation (8 East 69th Street, New York, NY) for a lecture by Cav. Dr. Gilda Rorro, who will discuss her long-standing dedication to education, civil rights, and the development of educational materials highlighting the many facets of Italian American heritage that are essential elements of American history. RSVP here. Since 2003, Gilda has served the New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission as its Chair and been an unwavering advocate for The Universality of Italian Heritage curriculum project. Cav. Gilda Battaglia Rorro Baldassari, Ed.D. was Kn...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italians-america-our-immigrant-stories-food-was-more-just-nourishment-mamma-it-was-how-she-expressed-love https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italians-america-our-immigrant-stories-food-was-more-just-nourishment-mamma-it-was-how-she-expressed-love Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The timing of this article for the May issue is interesting, because I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my mom Dora. She was an amazing woman. I know nearly everyone says that, but really, she was. Italy was in bad shape after World War II when my grandfather Umberto Romeo decided to come to America to find work. My mom was a young girl when her father left their home in Monte di Procida, so he could lay the foundation for a better life for his family. By the time Dora was a teenager, she, her three sisters, one brother and my grandmother Maria had reunited and settled in Brooklyn, N.Y. By...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/antonio-giordano-md-phd-honored-da-vinci-award-italian-heritage-and-culture-committee-new-york https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/antonio-giordano-md-phd-honored-da-vinci-award-italian-heritage-and-culture-committee-new-york Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Members of the Board of Directors of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee-NY, Inc. (IHCC-NY) honored Dr. Antonio Giordano, Founder and Director of the Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO) on April 24, 2023, with its coveted Leonardo da Vinci award, awarded annually by the 47-year-old cultural organization. A special presentation dinner hailed Giordano for his professionalism and concern for the well-being of humanity, attended by Giordano’s son and colleagues at Il Gattopardo New York City. Consul General Fabrizio DiMichele attended and praised the noted doctor for his “…contributi...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/author-giulia-silvia-ghia-conservation-cultural-heritage https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/author-giulia-silvia-ghia-conservation-cultural-heritage Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Author and art historian Giulia Silvia Ghia talked with Fabio Finotti, the director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York (IIC-NY) on April 19th, 2023. During the conversation, she presented her latest book: “Vademecum per i mecenati della cultura. Art Bonus, sponsorizzazioni e metodi di raccolte fondi per valorizzare conservando.” The book is intended to be a guide for modern patrons to create their own cultural investment, using today’s legislation.  Some of the relevant questions the talk addressed: Is it worth investing in culture? How does someone become a contemporary patron? What...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/andrea-doria-shipwreck-survivors-reunion-marks-67th-anniversary-tragedy-near-nantucket-island https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/andrea-doria-shipwreck-survivors-reunion-marks-67th-anniversary-tragedy-near-nantucket-island Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Noble Maritime Collection of Staten Island is hosting the survivors’ reunion concurrently with the historic exhibition, Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea with artifacts recovered by diver, collector and salvor in possession of the wreck, John Moyer.  Andrea Doria survivors and family members will unite at the Noble Maritime Collection on Saturday, May 6 for the exhibition, a special program, and dinner, while remembering their survival of the most catastrophic collision in history between two ocean liners. The ramming of the Swedish MS Stockholm into the hull of the glamorous Italian liner, Andr...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/mta-hero-tony-ventimiglia-staten-islands-dispatcher-who-hasnt-taken-sick-day-over-2-decades https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/mta-hero-tony-ventimiglia-staten-islands-dispatcher-who-hasnt-taken-sick-day-over-2-decades Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 This week's MTA Hero has gone over two decades without calling sick. Not even once. Tony Ventimiglia is Staten Island's dispatcher who pulls out all the stops. He oversees 29 express routes, six local routes, assists with customer service, and covers bus breakdowns with a spare bus. "I always go by the theory 'make the job work for you'. At the end of the day, I got 27,000 people to work without a hitch, everyone's happy. That to me is my gratification," Tony said. Tony attributes his pristine attendance to good health and passion for what he does.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/american-academy-rome-announces-202324-rome-prize-winners-and-italian-fellows https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/american-academy-rome-announces-202324-rome-prize-winners-and-italian-fellows Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The American Academy in Rome (AAR) announced today the winners of the 2023–24 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the Rome Prize—the gift of “time and space to think and work”—was awarded to 36 American artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus on the Janiculum Hill in Rome, starting in September 2023. “This class of Rome Prize winners once again includes some of America’s most gifted scholars a...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/honoring-italian-heritage-president-tuscany-visits-staten-islands-garibaldi-meucci-museum https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/honoring-italian-heritage-president-tuscany-visits-staten-islands-garibaldi-meucci-museum Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The president of Tuscany, Italy, visited the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in Rosebank on Saturday to highlight the work of inventor Antonio Meucci. President Eugenio Giani and his colleagues were welcomed by the Sons of Italy Foundation to the house that was once occupied by Florentine Antonio Meucci, whose homeland was the region of Tuscany, before he settled on Staten Island in 1850. In attendance were Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn), Borough President Vito Fossella and Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo (R-Mid Island). “In this community, as many of us know, when this was first s...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sicilian-tales-santi-buscemi-tuesday-may-2 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sicilian-tales-santi-buscemi-tuesday-may-2 Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Join us at Columbus Citizens Foundation | 8 East 69th Street, New York, NY, on Tuesday, May 2 for an enlightening presentation by CCF Member Santi Buscemi on the fairy tales of Luigi Capuana. Buscemi's book, Sicilian Tales, translates nineteen fairy tales from Capuana's C'era una volta. RSVP here. While you can expect to meet traditional characters in these fairy tales, Capuana's style infamously features strange and surprising elements especially in each tale's ending. A dramatic reading of at least two of the tales, aimed at an adult audience, will be sure to pique your interest! The recepti...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/were-investing-little-italy-local-pol-announces-nabes-first-ever-street-sweeping-initiative https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/were-investing-little-italy-local-pol-announces-nabes-first-ever-street-sweeping-initiative Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 With COVID-19 in the rearview mirror and summer just around the corner, visitors from around the globe are expected to flock to Little Italy. While tourism is the lifeblood of the Lower Manhattan neighborhood, more people also equals more trash. With that in mind, New York City Council Member Christopher Marte, whose district includes Little Italy, announced the first-ever street-sweeping initiative in Little Italy in collaboration with the Association of Community Employment Programs (ACE) and the Little Italy Merchants Association (LIMA).
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/mario-fratti-famous-italian-playwright-dies-95 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/mario-fratti-famous-italian-playwright-dies-95 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Mario Fratti passed away in the early morning hours of Saturday in his beautiful Manhattan home. He was 95 years old. He would have continued writing and going to the theater as he did until he was 93 if an inexorable and sudden physical decline had not slowed him down. He was the most famous and prolific Italian author of comedies and plays in the United States. His success came on Broadway in 1981 with “Nine” the musical adapted and inspired by Fellini’s 8 1/2, which was a huge success with audiences and critics with more than 2,000 performances including the latest revival starring Antonio...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/john-cabot-university-honors-rocco-b-commisso-50th-anniversary-new-york-gala https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/john-cabot-university-honors-rocco-b-commisso-50th-anniversary-new-york-gala Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 John Cabot University, the fully accredited American University located in the heart of Rome, hosted its annual Gala in New York City to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The premiere university event took place at the Union League Club. The New York Gala, is a celebration of John Cabot University and offers the opportunity to support its academic initiatives, scholarships, and cultural programs. This year’s Gala which took place on March 28th, marked the much anticipated 50th Anniversary and jubilee milestone as an overseas American liberal arts university. The Board of Trustees and College Pre...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/vademecum-i-mecenati-della-cultura-book-presentation https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/vademecum-i-mecenati-della-cultura-book-presentation Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Wednesday, April 19, 2023. From 6:00 pm To 7:30 pm. Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 686 Park Ave, New York, NY. Entrance: Free. Book now here. Event in Italian. Author Giulia Silvia Ghia in conversation with Fabio Finotti, IIC-NY Director, presents her book "Vademecum per i mecenati della cultura." The talk wants to answer some interesting questions: is it worth investing in culture? How can you be a contemporary patron? What rules do we need to know and what mechanisms must be triggered to implement them? The book was born with the intention of guiding the modern patron to create his own cultu...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/arte-povera-and-baroque-evolution-national-identity-l-dr-laura-petican https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/arte-povera-and-baroque-evolution-national-identity-l-dr-laura-petican Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Arte Povera and the Baroque: The Evolution of National Identity. Third lecture of a four-part lecture series which presents new perspectives on postwar Italian art. Join us for the third lecture in Magazzino Italian Art's annual spring lecture series, Arte Povera: Artistic Tradition and Transatlantic Dialogue, curated by 2022-23 Magazzino Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Roberta Minnucci. Arte Povera and the Baroque: The Evolution of National Identity. Dr. Laura Petican, Independent Scholar. April 15, 2023 l 12 p.m. Magazzino Italian Art - 2700 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY. Get tickets here. The lecture w...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/visitors-guide-bronxs-little-italy https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/visitors-guide-bronxs-little-italy Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Bronx’s Little Italy, also known as Arthur Avenue, is a vibrant and historic neighborhood that’s well worth a visit. With its bustling streets, delicious food, and rich culture, Little Italy is a must-see destination for anyone visiting the Bronx. If you happen to have a personal injury case in the Bronx, you may want to consider reaching out to Bronx injury lawyers who can provide legal assistance and representation. Here’s everything you need to know about exploring this beloved neighborhood.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-cultural-center-offers-free-legal-advice-bensonhurst-and-beyond https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-cultural-center-offers-free-legal-advice-bensonhurst-and-beyond Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Jack Spatola said that he first got the idea to offer free legal services to the Italian-American community when speaking with a rabbi in 1983. Nearly 40 years later, Spatola is finally getting to realize that dream. Spatola is the president of the Federation of Italian-American Organizations, which operates Il Centro, an Italian-American cultural center located on 18th Avenue. While the neighborhood has undergone drastic changes in recent decades, Spatola hasn’t changed much from 1983 in that he’s always looking for ways to help ItalianAmericans and for ways to improve his community.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/westchester-italian-film-festival-kick-will-nunziatas-short-picture-house-bronxville https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/westchester-italian-film-festival-kick-will-nunziatas-short-picture-house-bronxville Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Picture House Regional Film Center announced today that the Westchester Italian Film Festival will take place the weekend of April 21–23, in partnership with the Italian American Forum. Opening night, at The Picture House Bronxville, will begin with a dessert reception before a screening of the short film The Old Guitarist, made by local filmmaker Will Nunziata. Mr. Nunziata will appear for a Q&A following the screening and will present his friend and artistic collaborator Dominic Chianese with The Picture House Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Nunziata said “I’m very excited that my hometo...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/multipli-forti-2nd-edition-italian-literary-festival https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/multipli-forti-2nd-edition-italian-literary-festival Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Wednesday, 04/26/2023 - 3:00pm to 8:00pm. The Italian Cultural Institute in New York in collaboration with FUIS (Italian Unitary Writers Federation) - THE BRIDGE Award – CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art) – NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - RIZZOLI Bookstore - Italian General Consulate in Boston – Boston Chilton Club – I AM Books presents Multipli Forti, Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature  NEW YORK CITY (25 – 26 – 27 April, 2023); BOSTON (28 – 29 April, 2023). An initiative aimed at the public of readers and the international publishing world (publishing houses, literary agencies,...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/lawyers-present-arguments-columbus-statue-removal-lawsuit-against-city-syracuse https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/lawyers-present-arguments-columbus-statue-removal-lawsuit-against-city-syracuse Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Lawyers for both the city of Syracuse and the Columbus Monument Corporation presented arguments on Monday to the New York State Appellate Division’s Fourth Judicial Department amid CMC’s ongoing challenge to Mayor Ben Walsh’s plans to remove the Christopher Columbus monument in downtown Syracuse. The hearing comes after a year-long appeal process through which Walsh has pushed to reverse a state judge’s March 2022 decision favoring CMC. At Monday’s hearing in Rochester, attorneys for each party debated whether New York State Supreme Court Justice Gerard Neri issued the decision prematurely in...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italians-america-our-immigrant-stories-profound-truth-about-town-roseto-and-owing-it-all-meatball https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italians-america-our-immigrant-stories-profound-truth-about-town-roseto-and-owing-it-all-meatball Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 In 1882, a group of men left Roseto Valfortore (Valley of Roses), a town of 1,300 near the province of Foggia in the region of Puglia, to set sail for New York. The men spent their first night in America sleeping on the floor of a tavern on Mulberry Street in Manhattan’s Italian neighborhood. They eventually found work in the slate mines of Bangor, Pa. There, far from the opportunity they expected, they were confronted with prejudices as immigrants, tolerated substandard conditions, and often resided in homes that were nothing more than shacks. The Italians were considered uncultured and unedu...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-jew-who-wrote-some-mozarts-most-famous-operas https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italian-jew-who-wrote-some-mozarts-most-famous-operas Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte are some of the greatest works in the Western musical tradition, and did much to build the reputation of their composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But the man who wrote their libretti, Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838)—an Italian poet who spent the last years of his life teaching Italian at New York City’s Columbia University—was generally forgotten by non-experts. 
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/we-must-expand-italian-american-education-schools https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/we-must-expand-italian-american-education-schools Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Dear Friends, I was fortunate to meet with Governor Kathy Hochul Monday and discuss issues that concern our community. I briefed her on our agenda of top legislative initiatives for 2023 in Albany. I advised the Governor of our strong support for her plan to create more charter schools. We propose developing the first-ever Italian Language Academy Charter School in East Harlem. The Italian charter school would follow the successful model of charter schools specializing in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages and cultures and would open to all groups. We support the creation of Indigenous People’...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/remembering-victims-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-112-years-later https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/remembering-victims-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-112-years-later Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 It’s been 112 years, but several hundred people gathered on the corner of Washington and Greene Streets in Greenwich Village to make sure the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were not forgotten. It marked the first in person commemoration since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the gathering to go remote. “I’ve been coming every year since I was in college,” said Kimberly Schiller who brought her daugther Anna Lee and held a banner in the form of shirtwaist with the name of one of the victims, Lucia Maltese. Lucia’s sister Rosario, 14, and her mother Caterina, 42, also died. “Her sist...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/book-lecture-fireside-chat-judge-guido-calabresi https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/book-lecture-fireside-chat-judge-guido-calabresi Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Join us on Wednesday, April 19, at Columbus Citizens Foundation (8 East 69th Street, New York, NY) for a Fireside Chat with Judge Calabresi and author of Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi, Norman Silber. RSVP today! The reception and lecture cost is $25. For $65, attendees may enjoy the reception, lecture, and receive a copy of Volume 1 of Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi. Silber's first volume depicts Calabresi's "dramatic departure from Italy in the shadow of World War II, his upbring in New Haven, his growth as a student, and then his his life as a scholar and t...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/year-after-ruling-keep-city-columbus-statue-local-groups-file-support-removal https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/year-after-ruling-keep-city-columbus-statue-local-groups-file-support-removal Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 In March 2022, New York State Supreme Court Justice Gerard Neri issued a ruling to keep Syracuse’s Christopher Columbus statue standing in downtown Syracuse. Now, a year later, local community organizations have filed amicus briefs to support Mayor Ben Walsh’s plan to remove the monument. The ruling was a result of the Columbus Monument Corporation’s May 2021 lawsuit challenging Walsh’s decision to remove the statue. Two organizations, the Women of Italian and Syracuse Heritage and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, filed an amicus brief on March 15 showing their support for Walsh’s decision to...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/antonin-scalia-origins-supreme-court-originalist https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/antonin-scalia-origins-supreme-court-originalist Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 He was confirmed on Constitution Day, September 17, 1986, to the nation's highest court with a unanimous Senate vote. To many who'd known Antonin Scalia it wasn't a surprise, because more than any lawyer in recent history, he held in such high esteem not just the words of the Constitution (and their original meaning) but the Constitution's structure and the purpose behind it. In James Rosen's remarkable new book, Scalia: Rise to Greatness, readers come to learn not just the origins of Scalia's originalism but how the man the world would come to know as Nino came to be. He was born in Trenton,...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/magazzino-italian-art-little-eden-hudson-valley https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/magazzino-italian-art-little-eden-hudson-valley Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bare trees and the white snow piled here and there unevenly. Winter is coming to an end and the sun melts the ice. The paths to the Sardinian donkeys are impossible to walk on with city shoes. If the rolling Hudson Valley is naturally uneven on the outside, the art inside is deliberately uneven: Arte Povera, Italian art from the 1960s onward. A visit to the Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring begins like this: moving past the white morning light and into the stark, bare, even brutalist construction of the museum. 
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/welcome-tristate-italian-art-prize https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/welcome-tristate-italian-art-prize Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A new prize for Italian art in the United States is born. In fact, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York have announced the first edition of the "Tristate Italian Art Prize" art competition. The Prize aims to to promote and recognize the artistic creativity of the Italian and Italian-American community in the Tristate area, which includes the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Thus, the Prize is aimed at and individuals with Italian citizenship or with Italian ancestry who reside in the Tristate area are eligible to compete. The Prize may be...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/niaf-new-york-gala-honor-angelo-vivolo-beth-t-mazzeo-and-silvio-petriello https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/niaf-new-york-gala-honor-angelo-vivolo-beth-t-mazzeo-and-silvio-petriello Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) will host its annual New York Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on Thursday, April 20, 2023. This distinguished event, held at the world-famous, historic, New York City venue, will highlight the very best in Italian food, beverage and cultural experiences – as well as celebrate some of the most notable and impactful members of the Italian American community.NIAF is the largest and most prominent representative of over 25 million Italian Americans living in the United States. The Foundation aims to ensure that Italian Americans continue to keep alive a...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/rocco-commisso-how-billionaire-businessman-runs-soccer-club https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/rocco-commisso-how-billionaire-businessman-runs-soccer-club Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A billionaire cable TV empire owner does not own a yacht, private jet and mansion on a beach, instead he shelled out $170 million to buy an Italian pro soccer team. Rocco Commisso, 73, bought ACF Fiorentina in Florence three years ago. His wife told him that if he insisted on buying a team, it needed to be somewhere nice. The price tag was also a bargain for a European club.  The American owner is under relentless scrutiny by Fiorentina fans who demand that he pay whatever it costs to bring in stars and end their 50-year championship drought. Fiorentina, which is nicknamed “La Viola” —  “the P...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/cci-buffalo-hosts-st-josephs-table https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/cci-buffalo-hosts-st-josephs-table Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Buffalo's Italian Cultural Center (CCI) hosted its first ever St. Joseph's Table on Saturday. The Italian tradition commemorates a medieval drought and famine where people facing starvation turned to St. Joseph for help. Now people show their appreciation with an altar music and a feast. "I think it's part of our heritage, celebrating St. Joseph's Day. A lot of people remember growing up that way. Their families put on the big spread. I've heard so many amazing stories of people telling me what it was like growing up with St. Joseph's Day . All of the food all of those really wonderful traditi...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/pieces-ourselves-italian-american-manifesto https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/pieces-ourselves-italian-american-manifesto Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 My father worked with his hands beginning at the age of 10, and he never stopped, right up to the very day he walked off the job site and into the hospital, where he swiftly passed away. He never wanted my brothers to take over the landscaping business he had built. He wanted them to wear suits and ties and sit behind desks. You probably know this story; there’s a good chance it’s your own: Our ancestors wanted for us lives that were easier than their own, lighter lives, lives gentler on our bodies, minds and spirits. In order to give us these things, they gave us to America, and the hope and...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/niaf-proud-honor-beth-t-mazzeo-new-york-gala https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/niaf-proud-honor-beth-t-mazzeo-new-york-gala Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The National Italian American Foundation is proud to honor Beth T. Mazzeo at our New York Gala on Thursday, April 20th at the iconic Cipriani 42nd Street! Beth T. Mazzeo is a special advisor and the former Chief Administrative Officer of BloombergLP. s. Her department of more than 1,700 people was responsible for the operation of Bloomberg’s global real estate and facilities portfolio, supply chain, security, travel, and expense along with technical customer and employee support and infrastructure. Mazzeo joined Bloomberg in 1986 and has since held roles across Bloomberg's trading systems and...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/race-against-time https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/race-against-time Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 As a kid in Gravesend, Brooklyn, I wore my Italianess everywhere in my neighborhood. You could spot it in my walk, my speech, and in my attitude. I guess it was like Tony Manero’s walk in the opening scene of the iconic film Saturday Night Fever. But to survive, I had to keep my identity in check as I stepped between two different lives: the one I lived at home, and the one I lived at school. They were both very different; it called for code-switching to succeed in both.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/chinatown-little-italy-community-leaders-joining-forces-address-neighborhood-issues https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/chinatown-little-italy-community-leaders-joining-forces-address-neighborhood-issues Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Community leaders from two lower Manhattan neighborhoods, Chinatown and Little Italy, joined forces Saturday to address what they say are ignored issues that have been detrimental to their communities. “There’s been public safety issues, community issues, economic issues, stores are closing,” said Bob Fonti, vice president of New York State Italian-America Political Action Commission. These historic neighborhoods started taking shape more than a century ago, often in competition, and leaders say since Sept. 11, 2001, both communities have been trying to bounce back. But the COVID-19 pandemic o...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/celebrating-50-years-mangia-mulberry-street-italian-food-center-brick https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/celebrating-50-years-mangia-mulberry-street-italian-food-center-brick Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 When my wife and I stopped by Mulberry Street at 474 Brick Boulevard in Brick this past Sunday, to pick up the radio station’s corned beef and cabbage order for parade day, little did we know we were walking into history! A half a century in the making…While filling our order, co owner Ralph Colasurdo informed us that Sunday was the exact 50th Anniversary Day of Mulberry Street doing business. WOW !
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/magazzino-italian-art-spring-lecture-series-arte-povera-starts-march-18 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/magazzino-italian-art-spring-lecture-series-arte-povera-starts-march-18 Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Magazzino Italian Art announces the fifth iteration of the annual spring lecture series which brings together some of the leading scholars of Arte Povera to present new perspectives on postwar Italian art. The 2023 Lecture Series, Arte Povera: Artistic Tradition and Transatlantic Dialogue, curated by Dr. Roberta Minnucci, Magazzino’s 2022-23 Scholar-in-Residence, will address research topics which are strictly interconnected with Arte Povera’s relationship with the past and its artistic exchanges with the United States. 
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/102-hes-longest-living-firefighter-nyc-and-wife-gloria-longest-married-couple-staten-island-we-think https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/102-hes-longest-living-firefighter-nyc-and-wife-gloria-longest-married-couple-staten-island-we-think Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Over the past 102 years, he’s witnessed profound changes in history that have transformed lives in countless ways: two pandemics, wars, and breakthroughs in the fields of science and medicine. But Anthony Louis Aquaro is adamant about his life and his good fortune.  “My greatest blessing is wealth,” he said. “Not the monetary kind, but the wealth that comes with being blessed with a beautiful and loving family of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.” He’s the oldest living member of the FDNY in the five boroughs, having retired from Brooklyn’s Engine 69. To mar...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/laboratorio-veneziavenice-lab-book-presentation https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/laboratorio-veneziavenice-lab-book-presentation Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 When: Friday, March 10, 2023 From 6:00 pm To 7:00 pm - Location: Istituto Italiano di Cultura - NY - Organized by : IIC-NY- Entrance: Free Published on the occasion of the completion of the restoration work - promoted by Assicurazioni Generali in the Procuratie Vecchie in St Mark's Square in Venice and led by David Chipperfield - the book recounts a desire for renewal and rebirth and brings together ideas and reflections on the use of these historic spaces, which today has a new social purpose as The Home of The Human Safety Net, a movement of people helping people initiated by Generali and ac...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/cci-buffalo-welcome-new-executive-director-lindsey-lauren-visser https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/cci-buffalo-welcome-new-executive-director-lindsey-lauren-visser Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Board of Directors of the Centro Culturale Italiano di Buffalo is excited to announce Lindsey Lauren Visser as the new Executive Director. Lindsey Lauren joined the CCI in February of 2021 as Deputy Director where she played a critical role in preparing the organization for its grand opening. Since then, she has overseen the development of the CCI's award-winning public programming, expanded the membership program, and managed administrative operations. In her new position, Lindsey Lauren will be responsible for implementing the CCI's strategic plan, building community partnerships, and co...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/arte-povera-artistic-tradition-and-transatlantic-dialogue https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/arte-povera-artistic-tradition-and-transatlantic-dialogue Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Arte Povera: Artistic Tradition and Transatlantic Dialogue, Spring lecture series: March 18–April 30, 2023, 12pm - Where: Magazzino Italian Art, 2700 U.S. 9, Cold Spring, New York 10516 Magazzino Italian Art's annual spring lecture series brings together some of the leading scholars of Arte Povera who present new perspectives on postwar Italian art. The 2023 lecture series, curated by Dr. Roberta Minnucci, Magazzino’s 2022–23 Scholar-in-Residence, will address research topics which are strictly interconnected with Arte Povera’s relationship with the past and its artistic exchanges with the Uni...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/new-york-city-christopher-columbus-statue-vandalized-red-paint-tagged-murderer-central-park https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/new-york-city-christopher-columbus-statue-vandalized-red-paint-tagged-murderer-central-park Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A statue of Christopher Columbus has been vandalized in New York City. A photo taken Monday morning showed the statue of Columbus in Central Park sprayed with red paint. The messages "murderer" and "land back" were tagged on its pedestal. Reached by Fox News Digital Monday morning, Central Park police confirmed the incident is under investigation but said no further information is available at this time.  The statue, located on the south end of the Central Park Mall, was surrounded by metal barricades Monday. It is not clear if any suspects were identified or if any arrests were made. Accordin...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/ariola-joins-nyc-councils-italian-caucus https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/ariola-joins-nyc-councils-italian-caucus Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Councilman David Carr announced the revival of the NYC Council’s Italian Caucus this week, along with six of his colleagues in the Council: Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R-Staten Island), Councilwoman Joanne Ariola (R-Queens), Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), Councilman James Gennaro (D-Queens), Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens), and Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens). Last week the caucus met for the first time via Zoom and unanimously elected Carr as chair, he is half Italian through his mother’s side. “I was raised by my mother and grandparents to be proud of my Italian root...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/buffalos-galbani-italian-heritage-festival-announces-2023-dates https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/buffalos-galbani-italian-heritage-festival-announces-2023-dates Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival will be held on Hertel Avenue once again this summer, with organizers on Wednesday officially announcing the dates of the 2023 event. The beloved street festival will bring Buffalo’s robust Italian dining scene back to North Buffalo in mid-July, running Friday through Sunday, July 14-16. The three-day event is free to attend and will open at 11 a.m. each day. Buffalo’s Italian Festival returned to Hertel Avenue last year after several years away from its longtime venue, much to the excitement of local business owners. The festival left the Little Italy nei...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sign-dedicated-uticas-first-italian-american-mayor-dominick-assaro https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sign-dedicated-uticas-first-italian-american-mayor-dominick-assaro Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A sign was dedicated to Utica’s first Italian-American mayor, Dominick Assaro, in East Utica Friday afternoon. The sign sits at the Dominick Assaro Industrial Park on Dwyer Avenue. Assaro served as mayor of Utica from 1968 to 1971. Several of his family members gathered with city officials for the sign unveiling. “Family was so important to him and this dedication has brought our whole family here together back to Utica,” said Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri. During his time as mayor, Assaro improved the Utica Zoo, added a ski lift at Val Bialas and established the city planning department.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/center-italian-modern-art-debuts-exhibition-art-and-advertisement https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/center-italian-modern-art-debuts-exhibition-art-and-advertisement Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Center for Italian Modern Art, known as CIMA, was founded here in New York in 2013 by art historian Laura Mattioli. Her start in the art world began with her father's collection, something he created as a response to the violence of World War II. Mattioli joined "News All Day" on Women Wednesday with more on their new exhibition and the contributions of the center to Italian culture here in the city. The center, which is on Broome Street in SoHo, features art exhibitions in an intimate environment. Mattioli is passionate about bringing an appreciation of Italian modern art to the city.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/century-women-tommasolis-photographs-1906-2022 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/century-women-tommasolis-photographs-1906-2022 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 When: From March 9 to May 15, 2023 from Monday through Friday from 10AM to4PM - A unique exhibition dedicated to women, as seen by four generations of Italian photographers. Photography is not only a way of representing reality, but also of painting and reinventing it. The important Tommasoli photographic archive shows us women’s metamorphosis over the course of the last century, both in the daily life and in public stage. It's a fascinating journey, between reality and fantasy. 
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/magazzino-italian-art-announces-highlights-2023-program https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/magazzino-italian-art-announces-highlights-2023-program Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Magazzino Italian Art is pleased to announce a new slate of programs for the upcoming year. The calendar will highlight a program series curated by Ilaria Conti on diversity in art and culture across Italy and the US, a lecture series on new scholarship in the study of the Arte Povera movement curated by Roberta Minnucci, Magazzino Italian Art 2022-23 Scholar-in-Residence, a project by Arcangelo Sassolino in collaboration with The Art Newspaper, a cross-genre concert by Jog Blues, and the sixth iteration of the Cinema in Piazza film series presented in partnership with the Cold Spring Film Soc...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/staten-islander-lead-nyc-councils-new-italian-caucus https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/staten-islander-lead-nyc-councils-new-italian-caucus Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A new City Council caucus announced Thursday will bring a bit more amore to the five boroughs. The new bipartisan Italian Caucus will seek to provide a voice for the city’s Italian community while promoting the history, culture and contributions of New Yorkers of Italian descent.  City Councilman David Carr (R-Mid-Island), who is of half Italian heritage through his mother’s family, will lead the new caucus after he and its other members — Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore), Councilwoman Joanne Ariola (R-Queens), Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), Councilman James Gennaro (D-Queens...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/adelina-patti-and-two-sicilies-and-european-opera-new-york-and-beyond https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/adelina-patti-and-two-sicilies-and-european-opera-new-york-and-beyond Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Today, as memory of past opera greats fades a bit, especially that of singers and impresarios who largely predated the age of recording, it is impressive that one of the first truly worldwide celebrities was a daughter of the Two Sicilies who studied and came of age in New York. Adelina Patti and her parents, siblings, and extended family toured the Americas, Europe and Australia and were interconnected through collaboration and marriage to several prominent musicians and impresarios. In the 19th century, a unique circle of Italian opera families, and the Patti family in particular, had a far-...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/nearly-300-year-old-guarneri-violin-could-achieve-10-million-auction https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/nearly-300-year-old-guarneri-violin-could-achieve-10-million-auction Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A rare, nearly 300-year-old violin that has been in the collection of the late businessman Sau-Wing Lam and exhibited twice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be auctioned at Tarisio next month, with an estimate in excess of US$10 million. The instrument, circa 1731, is one of only about 150 known violins handmade by Italian master Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, one of the three great violin-making families in Cremona, Italy. Compared to Stradivari violins of the same era, Guarneri violins have deeper and more sonorous tones and were prized by such musicians as Isaac Stern, Jascha...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/giulio-picolli-received-honor-commendatore-omri https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/giulio-picolli-received-honor-commendatore-omri Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Giulio Picolli, a successful entrepreneur with well-acknowledged outstanding expertise, was recently given the honor of Commendatore OMRI (Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) at the Italian Consulate in New York. Giulio Picolli is praised for his contributions to preserving the ties between Italy and New Jersey’s Italian-American community. Giulio Picolli received the honor of Knight in 2003 and Officer of the OMRI in 2017. Picolli supported and promoted the Italian and Italian-American communities in New Jersey with great vigor and stood out as a prominent figure in the community for...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/where-heart-little-italy-lies-what-you-can-do-there https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/where-heart-little-italy-lies-what-you-can-do-there Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Every traveler's must-see list includes Little Italy because of its genuine pasta meals, which are offered by the top Italian restaurants, and its romantic, old-New York ambiance. In the 1880s, immigrants from Naples and Sicily flooded the region, creating the once-Italian neighborhood that now stretches from Canal to Houston Streets, between Lafayette Street and the Bowery. The majority of it is now concentrated in the blocks surrounding Mulberry Street, which also happens to be home to some of New York City's hottest boutiques and bars, but what is left is still going strong.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/other-voices-italy-ovoi https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/other-voices-italy-ovoi Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tuesday, February 21, 2023. From 6:00 pm To 7:00 pm. Organized by: IIC-NY (686 Park Ave, New York, NY). Entrance: Free. Book now. Presentation of “Other Voices of Italy” (OVOI), a translation series of books published by Rutgers University Press (first release January 13, 2023). Speakers: the editors Eilis Kierans, Alessandro Vettori, Sandra Waters, Micah Kleit, director of Rutgers University Press, Christopher Rios-Sueverkruebbe, assistant editor at Rutgers University Press, Prof. Gregory Pell of Hofstra University, Prof. Michelangelo La Luna of the University of Rhode Island (translators of...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italys-commercial-posters-are-works-fine-art https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/italys-commercial-posters-are-works-fine-art Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 In 1926, Italian Futurist painter Fortunato Depero debuted “Squisito al selz” at the 15th Venice Biennial. The painting advertised Campari, a popular Italian aperitif, and belonged to a genre Depero called quadro pubblicitario or “advertising painting.” Depero’s Biennial presentation was an offshoot of a half-decade collaboration between the artist and the brand; in 1924, he was put in charge of the company’s advertising brand and campaigns, and produced many materials for them in his signature style.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/two-italian-american-lions-reborn-renato-cantores-harlem-italia https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/two-italian-american-lions-reborn-renato-cantores-harlem-italia Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Italian Harlem, and its two main prominenti, Leonard Covello and Vito Marcantonio, have been brought to literary life in “Harlem, Italia” by Renato Cantore. Cantore, deputy director of Rai-Tgr, Italy's television network for regional news, has published numerous books and articles on the history of Italian emigration to the United States. “Harlem, Italia,” published by Rubbetino, is an Italian-language effort intended to educate people on immigration and its history.  “Italians are getting to know the immigration problem,” said Cantore in a Feb. 10 interview. “I think knowing the history of wh...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/metropolitan-museum-receives-gift-exceptional-italian-renaissance-portrait https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/metropolitan-museum-receives-gift-exceptional-italian-renaissance-portrait Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that it has received a gift of an exceptional oil painting by celebrated Italian artist Francesco Salviati (1510–1563). Executed on a one-inch thick marble slab, the arresting portrait depicts Bindo Altoviti (1491–1557), a powerful Florentine banker and one of the most significant political opponents to the Medici rulers. The monumental work is the first painting on marble acquired by The Met. It is a gift from the trust of Assadour “Aso” O. Tavitian, co-founder of Syncsort, a pioneering software company, and philanthropist.“The artistic impo...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/save-venice-inc-american-philanthropy-and-art-conservation-italy-1966-2021 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/save-venice-inc-american-philanthropy-and-art-conservation-italy-1966-2021 Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Save Venice Inc. American Philanthropy and Art Conservation in Italy, 1966-2021. A book presentation with Christopher Carlsmith, Professor of History, UMass Lowell. February 16, 2023 | 6PM. Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 686 Park Avenue, NY. Free entrance | RSVP HERE. In collaboration with Save Venice. In this book talk, Prof. Christopher Carlmsith discusses his homonymous book which tells the fascinating story of the organization from its origins to its fiftieth anniversary. Employing extensive archival research, oral interviews, and newspaper accounts, the book explores a range of topics, in...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/louis-damore-honored-united-states-marine-hero https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/louis-damore-honored-united-states-marine-hero Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The founder and president of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism, Louis D’Amore has been a travel and tourism celebrity for decades. He has been instrumental in making the world understand the important synergy between tourism and peace. This is even more important today than ever. Louis has been seen as a man with a vision and ideals. This started before he founded IIPT. This vision to defend peace and freedom started in 1959 when he honorably served the United States as a Marine.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/authorities-new-york-return-14-looted-artefacts-valued-25m-italy-including-black-figure-hydria-renowned-priam-painter https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/authorities-new-york-return-14-looted-artefacts-valued-25m-italy-including-black-figure-hydria-renowned-priam-painter Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has returned 14 looted artefacts to Italy, marking its fourth repatriation of antiquities to the country since July 2022. The objects, collectively worth nearly $2.5m, were recovered during multiple criminal investigations, which authorities say are ongoing. They were presented on February 2 in a ceremony attended by the Consulate General of Italy and investigators from the Italian Carabinieri, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and US Customs and Border Protection. The artefacts include a fourth-century BCE silver coin known as the Sicily Naxos Coi...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/art-titan-frank-frazettas-legacy-keeps-growing-new-projects-and-massive-retrospective https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/art-titan-frank-frazettas-legacy-keeps-growing-new-projects-and-massive-retrospective Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 In an iconic painting by the great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010), a stoic barbarian, whose chiseled face resembles the artist himself, leans on his sword atop a mound of vanquished enemies, taking grim satisfaction in his bloody work. This piece, as well as any, represents the stature that the Brooklyn-born artist continues to enjoy more than a decade after his death, as a range of efforts across the media, entertainment and publishing industries continue to cement his legacy.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/idea-dante-gianfranco-contini-book-presentation https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/idea-dante-gianfranco-contini-book-presentation Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 "An idea of Dante" by Gianfranco Contini. Book Presentation. Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Editor-in-chief of Digital Dante in conversation with Fabio Finotti, IIC-NY Director, and Luigi Ballerini, Founder and Editor of Agincourt Press. February 6, 2023 6PM - Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 686 Park Avenue, NY. RSVP HERE. On the occasion of the presentation of "An Idea of Dante" by G. Contini. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli, this volume brings together all of Gianfranco Contini's essa...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/iawa-new-york-literary-series-february-2023 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/iawa-new-york-literary-series-february-2023 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 IAWA New York Resumes 2nd Saturdays @ Jefferson Market Library - 425 6th Ave, near 9th St. Willa Cather Salon Featuring Antoinette Carone & Margaret Saraco & Open Mic. Saturday, FEBRUARY 11 @ 2:30 [sign up]-4:45 pm. Antoinette Carone and Margaret R. Sáraco. Antoinette Carone’s newest novel Hotel of the Siren (Scantic Press, 2022) follows Siren Shore, (Shakespeare & Company 2019); and her first book, Ciao Napoli: A Scrapbook of Wandering in Naples (CreateSpace, 2014) is based on her year of living in Naples. Recent work appears in Ovunque Siamo, Foxglove Journal, Ellipsis ‘Zine, Fudoki Magazine...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/romanew-york-19531964 https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/romanew-york-19531964 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 January 12—February 25, 2023 - 537 West 20th Street, New York, 10011, New York. David Zwirner is pleased to present Roma/New York, 1953–1964, an exhibition exploring the significant intellectual and artistic cross-pollination between artists in the centers of Italian and American art in the 1950s and 1960s, on view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location, and curated by gallery partner David Leiber. In the early 1950s, against the backdrop of New York’s emergence as an international art capital and Italy’s postwar economic boom and cultural revival after fascism, Informale and abstract...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/army-private-vincent-speranza https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/army-private-vincent-speranza Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 One of eight children, Vincent Speranza was born in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in 1925 to Francesco and Francesca Paratori Speranza. Francesco immigrated from Palmi, Calabria, and Francesca from Sciacca, Sicily. When Speranza was 3 years old, they moved to Staten Island, where he grew up amid a large extended family. Every Sunday at noon, the family took turns hosting a traditional spaghetti dinner with all the trimmings. “A real Italian spaghetti dinner on Sunday was two-and-a-half, three hours,” Speranza says. He graduated from PS 22 Grade School and Port Richmond High Scho...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sohos-center-italian-modern-art-cima-announces-new-exhibition-depero-rotella-italian-commercial-posters-between-advertising-and-art https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sohos-center-italian-modern-art-cima-announces-new-exhibition-depero-rotella-italian-commercial-posters-between-advertising-and-art Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Today, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) announces a new exhibition “From Depero to Rotella: Italian Commercial Posters Between Advertising and Art” from February 16th to June 10th, 2023 at its Soho exhibition and research center. The show examines the cross-pollination between avant-garde art and commercial posters in Italy, with a particular focus on the interwar years and the early post-World War II era, during the country’s economic boom.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/giampaolo-pioli-new-editor-chief-la-voce-di-new-york https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/giampaolo-pioli-new-editor-chief-la-voce-di-new-york Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The baton of leadership has been handed over at La Voce di New York, the first Italian-English digital newspaper in the U.S. Stefano Vaccara, founder and editor of the newspaper since 2013, will be replaced by Giampaolo Pioli, a longtime New York correspondent for newspapers of the Quotidiano Nazionale group (Resto del Carlino, La Nazione and Il Giorno) and a respected figure for many Italian journalists in the United States. Mr. Vaccara, who will be continuing to cover news from the United Nations and write as a columnist, recalled how “the idea for this newspaper was born from the great oppo...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/staten-island-oldest-resident-turns-108-lena-says-chuckle-i-think-god-forgot-about-me https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/staten-island-oldest-resident-turns-108-lena-says-chuckle-i-think-god-forgot-about-me Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Turning 100 is magical, but when you exceed that number, well — you are really extra special and breaking records. The family of Lena Vallone Barone just couldn’t wait to shout the news from the rooftops! Lena is 108! And according to granddaughter Chris Orlando and her research, her grandmother is the 544th oldest person in the United States — out of 332 million people. There are 355 people who are 108.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/little-italy-historic-market-place-project-troy-gets-federal-funding https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/little-italy-historic-market-place-project-troy-gets-federal-funding Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Alias Coffee in Troy has more than biscotti on the menu these days. Recently congressman Paul Tonko dropped by to announce a half million-dollar federal grant to assist in the redevelopment of Troy’s Little Italy Historic Market Place project.  Add that to the $375,000 awarded back in August, and that is nearly a million bucks. DeFazio owner Rocco DeFazio says he excited for the funds. “A lot of people over a lot of years working very hard to see this come and I think the money is going to be well spent. I think it’s going to draw more people to this neighborhood,” said DeFazio.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/frick-adds-its-first-renaissance-portrait-woman-permanent-collection https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/frick-adds-its-first-renaissance-portrait-woman-permanent-collection Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Frick Collection in New York has long touted a rich assortment of old master paintings, including Renaissance portraits of powerful figures. None of those portraits, however, depicted a lone woman—until now. Portrait of a Woman, painted by Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni circa 1575, is joining the Frick’s permanent collection, the museum announced in a statement last week, adding that the piece is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting the museum has acquired in more than half a century.”
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/february-fun-casa-belvedere-tombola-night https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/february-fun-casa-belvedere-tombola-night Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 02/07 Tuesday 6:00 pm • Casa Belvedere • 79 Howard Avenue • Staten Island, NY - Doors open at 6:00 pm. Tombola games begin at 6:30 pm. Entry: Members free; non-members $10 per person. Tombola cards must be purchased for each round at $3 each. Tombola is a game that originated in Southern Italy. Similar to Bingo, the game is fun to play, easy to learn and for all ages. In order to win, players need to match a variety of winning combinations or patterns on cards. The game begins with a ball draw and ends when all 90 numbers are drawn or when a winner is declared for all the patterns of the game,...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/depero-rotellaitalian-commercial-posters-between-advertising-and-art https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/depero-rotellaitalian-commercial-posters-between-advertising-and-art Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The exhibition examines the cross-pollination between avant-garde art and commercial posters in Italy, with a particular focus on the interwar years and the early post-WW2 era, during the country’s economic boom. With a starting date in 1926 (the year in which Depero exhibited the Venice Biennale a “quadro pubblicitario”, Squisito al selz) and an ideal closing date in 1957 (the year in which the television advertising show Carosello first aired on Italy’s public tv network RAI), the exhibition will illustrate how the design of Italian commercial posters moved hand in hand with the artistic...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/claudia-cardinale-lindomabile-indomitable-book-presentation https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/claudia-cardinale-lindomabile-indomitable-book-presentation Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thursday, February 02, 2023. From 5:00 pm To 6:30 pm. Organized by IIC-NY in collaboration with Cinecittà. Entrance: Free. IIC NY - 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021. Book Presentation: "Claudia Cardinale. L’indomabile. The Indomitable" Curated by Claudia Squitieri. Published by Cinecittà and Electa Editore. Opening remarks: Fabio Finotti, IIC-NY Director. Author Claudia Squitieri in conversation with Gaetana Marrone Puglia (Princeton University). The short film "Un Cardinale Donna' by Manuel Perrone (2023) will be presented. On the Occasion of Claudia Cardinale – Film Series (Feb 3–21, 2023 Mo...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/fiac-honors-anne-pasternak-director-brooklyn-museum https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/fiac-honors-anne-pasternak-director-brooklyn-museum Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 At the Raquet and Tennis Club FIAC (FOUNDATION FOR ITALIAN ART & CULTURE) honored Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak with the FIAC Excellency Award 2022. In the presence of FIAC Chairman Daniele Bodini, President Alain Elkann, Italian Ambassador to the United Nations Maurizio Massari, Consul General in New York Fabrizio Di Michele, and Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Fabio Finotti, Director Pasternak was recognized for transforming the Brooklyn Museum into a bold, pioneering and global center for the visual arts.
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/senator-george-borrello-named-president-new-york-conference-italian-american-legislators https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/senator-george-borrello-named-president-new-york-conference-italian-american-legislators Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 New York State Senator George Borrello was chosen by his Senate and Assembly colleagues to serve as President of the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators. The mission of the bipartisan organization is to highlight the significant contributions of Italian-Americans to the state of New York. “I am grateful to my colleagues for choosing me to serve as President of the New York Conference of Italian-American Legislators. New York State is home to over three million residents of Italian descent whose economic, social and cultural contributions make our state stronger and enrich...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sogno-americano-american-dream-little-italy-ny https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/sogno-americano-american-dream-little-italy-ny Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Little Italy Merchants Association hosted a Street Light and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony entitled, “Sogno Americano” (American Dream): A “Talking” Street Light Installation on the corner of Broome and Mulberry Streets in Little Italy, New York City. Presented to Little Italy from our compatriots in Naples, Italy. “Sogno Americano” (American Dream) is a unique artistic “talking “street light installation, a project curated by the artistic director of Seven Ars, Tiziano Corbelli, and created in Naples by craftsman Antonio Spiezia of Ceit Europea. The event was a collaboration with the artist and...
]]> https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/taste-grandeur-collection-modern-medici https://www.wetheitalians.com/default/taste-grandeur-collection-modern-medici Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Spanning over 300 years of sculpture, painting and decorative art, Modern Medici: Masterpieces from a New York Collection, will be offered at Christie’s in New York on 27 January.  Inspired by the 15th-century Italian private spaces of study and contemplation known as studiolos, the spirit of this collection is one of scholarly interest and a studied appreciation for beauty. Above all, it reflects the age-old phenomenon of visitors coming away from Italy enriched in every sense. 
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