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When: From Thursday, December 07, 2017 to Sunday, January 07, 2018 - Where: The Museum of Modern Art NY - Organized by : Moma In collaboration with : Luce Cinecittà - Entrance : With fee The Museum of Modern Art organizes a retrospective of the late Italian world-famous director. Antonioni (1912–2007), whose fascination with mediated reality only d...

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Curiosity got the better of me Thursday evening (Nov. 9th) and I decided to attend the “Risorgimento” lecture and dedication of a bronze plaque in honor of Il Padre della Patria, King Vittorio Emanuele II, at the Italian American Museum. Sponsored by the Guardia D’Onore* (Guard of Honor) and the American Foundation of Savoy Orders, I was not hopefu...

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There is prosciutto, and then there is culatello. To connoisseurs, the latter — cured from a solid chunk of leg, not the whole leg like standard prosciutto — is the variety worth seeking now that the Department of Agriculture has approved for import the culatello di Zibello made near Parma by the Negroni company. For culatello, the meat of black ne...

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When: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - Organized by : ICI In collaboration with : Istituto Luce - Entrance : Free Please join Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Italian Cultural Institute for the presentation of the book 'My Antonioni' edited by Carlo Di Carlo. A selection of writin...

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New Yorkers sounded off on the fates of statues from Christopher Columbus to Teddy Roosevelt Wednesday at the Manhattan hearing of Mayor de Blasio's monuments commission. Speakers were split between people pushing to get rid of statues of figures tarred with racism and colonialism, and those arguing the monuments should stay as a reminder of histor...

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Mother Cabrini is still alive and well in New York City. On Oct. 20, 2017, the corner of 19th Street and 3rd Avenue was co-named "Mother Cabrini Way" through the efforts of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez and the approval of the City Council and Department of Transportation. We, her Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSCs) are so excit...

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“Abbiamo bisogno di alimentare e incoraggiare un processo di rieducazione della società, della collettività, con l’obiettivo di pensare più profondamente alla nozione di italics. Anche se certo, lo dobbiamo fare in questo momento storico che, per i motivi che conosciamo, è più duro di altri”. Il professor Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean del John D. C...

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La storia di Annalisa, Expat dal Veneto a New York  la conoscono in molti. La sua solarità in primis e la sua costante presenza sulle piattaforme social in cui racconta le proprie avventure nella Grande Mela hanno conquistato numerosissimi fan. Ma oltre l’entusiasmo per la sua vita, l’autrice racconta la difficoltà, il dolore della perdita, il sens...

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In what could only be an anticlimactic end to a New York auction season dominated by Christie’s colossal sale of the $450.3 million “last Leonardo” on Wednesday, Sotheby’s soldiered through the week’s final megawatt event respectably, though without much spark. The night before, Christie’s bucked convention by shoehorning the Renaissance showstoppe...

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Nov. 21, 2017—Jan. 7, 2018 (Tree-lighting daily at 4:30pm, with additional ceremonies on Fridays and Saturdays at 5:30 and 6:30pm). Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue. New York, New York. The Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a long-established yuletide tradition in New York. The brightly...

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