Dr. Rosemary Serra, a leading research sociologist from the University of Trieste in Italy, has come to New York as a visiting research scholar at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, City University of New York, to investigate the status of Italian American identity within the greater New York area.   The tool...

By Giovanni di Napoli   Since beginning this exercise in ethnic self-awareness I've intermittently written about New York City's public monuments by Sicilian Americans, specifically the works of Anthony de Francisci and Pietro Montana.   However, no discussion of Sicilian-American sculptors would be complete without mentioning Arturo...

On Saturday, September 13 at 2 pm, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will present a very special guest speaker. Nancy Petralia, along with her husband John, is author of "Not in a Tuscan Villa," which is currently a bestseller in the travel book section on Amazon.com.   The book tells the real-life story of this middle-aged American couple who wen...

by Silvia Simonetti   Artistic director of the New Museum in New York since 2007 and of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan since 2003, among other professional experiences and projects, Massimiliano Gioni was the youngest curator ever of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.   Living between the U.S. and Italy - where he was born in...

By Virginia N. Sherry In an emotional ceremony, Corrado "Joe" Manfredi, the Manfredi Auto Group owner who died in March, was remembered on Ebbitts Street in New Dorp Beach, with friends delivering tributes in both Italian and English. Speakers included long-time friends like Mike Pesce, who recalled the days when he and Manfredi, who was born...

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...

Si terrà il 9 ottobre prossimo, presso il Glen Oaks Country Club di Long Island, il Torneo di Golf che annualmente l'Italian American Museum sponsorizza.I ricavati saranno destinati alle opere di ristrutturazione in programma per il Museo newyorchese. Per raccogliere fondi, il Museo ospiterà anche un'asta e una riffa. Il museo si rivolge per questo...

Paolo Ventura's luminous and haunting photographs function as architectural relics of the imagination, portraying characters and scenarios that are magical, poignant and strangely familiar. We wonder where we saw these people before. Was it in a work of art or in a dream, or are they some part of our own identity that we suppressed in order to meet...

The original thought of "Big Ang" doing one night in NYC at St. Luke's has quickly been changed since she sold out less than twenty-four hours following her announcement on the Wendy Williams show. After receiving hundreds of tweets and facebook messages from angry fans who could not get tickets, she called her agent and immediately asked for anoth...

The Calandra Institute presents an exhibition by Lo Studio dei Nipoti ("The Studio of the Grandchildren"), a nonprofit artist collective for U.S. artists of southern Italian ancestry. The works featured here, by artists Nancy Agati, Cianne Fragione, Rose Michelle Taverniti, and Marisa Tesauro, represent an effort to engage with immigrant culture in...