Arturo Di Modica’s Cavallo in SoHo
While enjoying a night on the town with some friends, we stumbled upon famed Sicilian American artist Arturo Di Modica's Cavallo. Best known for his sculpture Charging Bull (in Bowling Green), the towering stainless steel bronco stands outside Cipriani's Restaurant on 376 W Broadway (between Broome and Spring Streets) in Lower Manhattan....
Museum Premieres “Charging Bull” Documentary and Displays Replica Sculpture
On the evening of December 3, the Museum hosted the first showing of a new documentary film, "Lucky Balls," commemorating the 25th year that the "Charging Bull" sculpture by Arturo Di Modica has been at Bowling Green Park in New York City. Over the years, the sculpture has become one of the most popular attractions in Lower Manhattan and o...
Abruzzese Christmas in New York
I was fortunate as a child to experience many old world traditions from Abruzzo. My family arrived later to the United States than most Italian Americans. My father came here in 1956 and my mother followed him in 1958. My sisters and I were born in New York. However, our home was a step back into time, a time of simplicity and of old world...
L’Italia prende forma a New York. Intervista a Gaetano Pesce e Federico Materazzi
L'unicità del design italiano, che trova le sue radici nella tradizione del made in Italy, sta sempre più conquistando un posto di rilievo nel mercato americano. Innovazione, creatività, artigianalità sono alla base di un modo di fare business che mette al centro qualità e ispirazione. Dall'arredamento all'arte decorativa, queste caratteri...
Decameron + La Mandragola
KIT- Kairos Italy Theater, the Italian company in New York, presents two Italian masterpieces, The Mandragola (The Mandrake root) by Nicolo' Machiavelli and three novels of the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, in repertory at Bernie Wohl Center (647 Columbus Avenue) from April 9 to April 12. THE DECAMERON By Giovanni BoccaccioApril 9,...
Incredible Stories by italytime - May 15th & 16th PM - NYC
by Vittorio Capotorto and Francesco Pagano It all started in December 2013. Our Team had very little money, but also a lot of great friends, some extraordinary artistic material and one bold ambition: to create the first permanent 'Casa Teatrale Italiana' in NYC, where the best of Italian Theater and the power of live performances wou...
Italian Hours
by Alec Wilkinson "Countless times I walked past these windows with the curtains drawn," Alessandro Cassin said. "It seemed so unlikely that there would be anything behind them anymore." Cassin is the director of publishing for Centro Primo Levi, which promotes the historical study of Italian Jews. He is from Florence and moved to...
2016 Scholarship Handbook
We are pleased to announce the publication of the Calandra Institute's 2016 College Scholarship Handbook. This directory provides information on well over one hundred scholarships available to Italian American students and students of Italian studies. Please be advised that the Calandra Institute does not provide additional scholarship inf...
Announcing a Major New Italian Educational and Cultural Center in New York
La Scuola d'Italia, the 38-year-old independent, bi-lingual Pre-K through 12 private school, has acquired a building at 432 west 58th Street from the Mount Sinai Health System, to consolidate its two locations enabling the school to expand from 300 to up to 700 students from nursery, pre K through 12 from September 2016. Renovations will i...
Abruzzo & Molise. Opening Reception
October 8, 6:30 pm — 8:30 pmWestchester Italian Cultural Center - 24 Depot Square - Tuckahoe, NY Join us for the opening of the exhibit Abruzzo & Molise,Yesterday and Today. The evening will open with the screening of the documentary Abruzzo & Molise, L'Italia Vista dal Cielo by Folco Quilici. Welcome and introductory remarks will fol...
Epiphany Concert with La Befana at Casa Belvedere Tues. January 5th @ 7 PM
Celebrate the Epiphany - La Befana! with Alessandra belloni & I Giullari di Piazza for a special 35TH anniversary revival of "La Cantata dei Pastori" - The Shepherds Cantata. A Neapolitan Renaissance Christmas concert. Featuring: La Befana (the Italian Christmas Witch), the Arc Angel Gabriel, and Pulcinella from the Italian Commedia d...
Gaetano Salvemini and the Italian exiles: Book presentation and conversation
13 Apr 2016 6:00 PM. Center for Italian Modern Art. 421 BROOME STREET, 4th floor. New York, NY 10013 Join us for a special evening of conversation around the presentation of a new publication, Gaetano Salvemini: Lettere Americane, 1927-1949 (Donzelli Editore, 2015), with the editor, Renato Camurri, and Professors Romy Golan, Ernest Ialongo, and St...