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The Center for Italian Modern Art (Cima), an art museum and research center in the Soho neighbourhood of Manhattan, announced on Friday (14 June) that it would close its doors permanently on 22 June. Its current exhibition, Nanni Balestrini: Art as Political Action —One Thousand and One Voices—the first stateside retrospective of the Italian experi...

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The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with the Italy-based KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will present the 11th anniversary season of the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, New York City’s premiere festival of Italian theater taking place in all five boroughs of NYC, April 29-May 13. Admission to all shows and e...

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CIMA is proud to host the morning of the last day of the third annual Italian Literary Fiction Festival. The Italian Cultural Institute in New York in collaboration with FUIS (Italian Unitary Writers’ Federation) — THE BRIDGE Book Award  – Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University – CUNY Hunter College – (CIMA) The Center for Italian Modern...

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The Center for Italian Modern Art announces its new exhibition, NANNI BALESTRINI: ART AS POLITICAL ACTION. ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOICES, curated by Marco Scotini, opening February 22nd. This is the first retrospective exhibition in the US of Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019), an Italian experimental visual artist, poet, and novelist known for his revolut...

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Today, the Center for Italian Modern Art announces that it is the recipient of a $60,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Spring 2023 grant program recognizes arts organizations and museums for their visual arts programming, exhibitions, and research initiatives that provide critical support to artists. CIMA joins a ri...

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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 contrib...

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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...

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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 particul...

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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 a...

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“Americans are pragmatic, they box everything in, but I think there is room to get out of these boxes, to break them, sowing doubt.” Laura Mattioli is full of doubts, and of certainties. The first and foremost of these are that modern Italian art is misunderstood in America; that there is a need to work on awareness to restore it to its proper plac...

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