Friday, March 13, 2015 - 6PMItalian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York TO RSVP PLEASE CLICK HERE   We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinemat...

by Piero Armenti   Se qualcuno prova a convincervi che la pasta è stata inventata dai cinesi, non dategli retta, è solo una leggenda. Parola di Stefano Milioni, giornalista enogastronomico e imprenditore, uno dei maggiori esperti di cibo italiano. "In molte parti del mondo si pensa che sia stato Marco Polo, nel 1295, al suo ritorno dalla Cin...

The extraordinary and sometimes underestimated legacy of Frederick's reign between 1220 and 1250 is the subject of a lecture by Louis Hamilton. The era of Frederick's rule has justifiably been described as the "first Renaissance." However, whereas the later Italian Renaissance flourished primarily in the center and north of the peninsula, this firs...

The Italian Cultural Institute and The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies - Columbia University present: Margherita Moscardini - Andrea Nacciarriti, New York Prize 2014-15 Winners. Final Projects Monday, March 30, 6 - 8 PM. Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York, New York 10065.&...

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...

The setting is the suburbs of Rome, the time is the present. In the background are a love story, a friendship, and the controversial theme of death due to unsafe working conditions on construction sites. The lives of the three characters are told through the vivid slang of the slums. Performed in English. Luca De Bei was born in Padua. His father h...

We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinematic experiences, images appearing with a blow, non-linear structures to predict the future, pop-up magic shows...   "Magic Books" is a...

Per celebrare il suo trentesimo anniversario, la Fondazione De Fornaris, in collaborazione con l'Istituto italiano di cultura di New York e il Museo Gam di Torino, ha organizzato una mostra con una selezione dei pezzi migliori della sua collezione di arte moderna e contemporanea.Giorgio Morandi e Felice CasoratiL'esibizione, che verra' inaugurata i...

Italian realist playwright Carlotta Corradi was awarded the first Mario Fratti Award for Emerging Italian Playwrights last night, June 24 at the concluding event of the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, which was held at Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave.   The award recognizes her new play, "Via dei Capocci," which was given a s...

Dopo più di un anno di attesa l'Istituto di Cultura di New York ha finalmente trovato il suo nuovo direttore. Si tratta dello scrittore Giorgio Van Straten, la cui "chiara fama", criterio che guida la selezione dei rappresentanti della cultura italiana nel mondo, è testimoniata dai numerosi libri pubblicati e dagli incarichi ricoperti in prestigios...