Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of New York Organized by: ICI A conversation with Italian artist Lorenzo "Jovanotti" Cherubini and prof. Lorenzo Coveri (Universita' di Genova) on contemporary Italian song writing. Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy   Read more...

Theatre is an extraordinary mean of knowing each other, of meeting up, and creating synergies. In the course of this reading, through the analysis of selected texts and authors, our speakers will lead the audience to a journey into the European theatrical heritage exploring the thread that has connected dramatic art across all Europe, and still doe...

IDaCo (Vanessa Tamburi, Founder & Artistic Director; Enzo Celli, Founder) announced its 2015 platform of programming. The events-ranging from performances to panels to workshops-will showcase extraordinary Italian choreographers and dance companies over five days, May 19th through 23rd, at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York (686 Park Av...

Opening at the Italian Cultural Institute, The Light of Southern Italy, is a carefully selected exhibition, curated by Marco Bertoli, of 34 beautiful paintings rarely seen in New York and the United States. This is the second exhibition from this collaboration at the Institute following The Macchiaioli in October 2014.   And is the next step...

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...

The relationships between Italy and the United States during the 20th century are intertwined with art. Artistic exchanges between the two countries relationship play a key role in shaping their mutual trends of taste, cultural history and political concerns.   The Italian Cultural Institute will gather scholars and experts in the fields of...

Giovedì 9 maggio 20136.00 in EDT Italian Culture Institute of New York Seguso, the renowned Murano Company producing glass since 1397, along with the Italian Cultural Institute host a very special evening on Thursday, May 9 from 6 pm – 8pm with Mr. Giampaolo Seguso, Murano glass artist, poet and philosopher.

In THE FOUR CORNERS OF PALERMO, Giuseppe Di Piazza uses his real-life experience as a crime reporter to bring to life the second mob war of Palermo. In his newspaper career, Di Piazza covered the murders of over 300 people, many of whom he knew personally: officers, judges, and politicians.   This book is his attempt to explain these dark ev...

The Mondadori, Italy's largest publishing group, has a history, as is the case for almost all large industries, closely linked to the life of one man, in this case the "boy printer" Arnoldo Mondadori who in 1907, when he was still very young, began his career as a publisher in Ostiglia, a small village in the Lombardy countryside.   The expa...

di Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino   Famoso glottologo e professore ordinario di Didattica delle lingue all'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Paolo Balboni ha scritto numerosi libri di didattica, e molti insegnanti di lingue si sono preparati con i suoi manuali: quando si parla di lingua, Balboni è stato il maestro di molti. Attualmente è anche...