Marking the first time that a fashion icon has expanded his portfolio into a comprehensive branded luxury lifestyle destination, designer Domenico Vacca has announced the $20m renovation of The Domenico Vacca opening September 2015.   The impressive 12-story luxury space, located on 55th Street just off Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, wil...

by Roberta Smith   Alberto Burri's prescient paintings — in patched, burned and otherwise abused burlap, plastic or wood — form a lavish, beautiful and admirable, if sometimes monotonous retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. It presents an artist who is impressive less for the profundity of his work than for his consistency and his ideas,...

By John Crudele It's definitely not Starbucks. In fact, the first impression you might get of Caffe Reggio, the Greenwich Village coffee house — yes, with two "f"s — is that its name could be Nobucks. It's cramped, very old and dark. And the bathroom! Well, you are better off waiting until you get home.   "Old World quaint" i...

BATAVIA — When Thomas MacPherson looks at an empty gallery he doesn't see blank walls.He sees a dining room table covered in linen, set with antique china awaiting a Sunday dinner. Or maybe, his grandmother's bedroom arranged with period furniture. And in another area, he's likely to find a living room with a sofa, love seat or the La-Z-Boy recline...

New York 05 March 2013Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has opened an exhibition entitled "'Piero della Francesca in America" at the Frick Collection in New York. The event came at the end of his two day-visit to the city, during which he met the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the General Assembly, Vuk Jeremi...

E' iniziata la settimana della cucina italiana. Fino al 6 luglio 23 ristoranti italiani offriranno due diverse soluzioni: pranzo a 26 dollari e cena a 40. Sono incluse tre portate, ma bevande e tips sono escluse. Ecco la lista, conviene riservare. Questo il link.   Read more   Fonte: Scopri New York  

By Giovanni di Napoli   Giglio Sunday was a scorcher! With temperatures soaring in the nineties, the heat made the already demanding task of carrying two massive structures all the more difficult. Far from demoralizing the lifters, I don't think I've ever seen a more spirited group of men. The paranza's fortitude and devotion was most admira...

By Beatrice Bondi We are the primitives of a new era, paintings and projections 1961-1989, questo il titolo e il tema conduttore della mostra dell'artista italo-americano Aldo Tambellini allestita presso la James Cohan Gallery di Chelsea dal curatore Joseph Ketner. L'esposizione, inaugurata giovedì 12 settembre, resterà visibile fino al 19 ottobre...

The search is on for fashion's most talented up-and-coming designers as the Ecco Domani® Fashion Foundation enters its 13th season. Through the Foundation, aspiring fashion designers are eligible to win a $25,000 grant to showcase a collection on the ultimate runway: New York's Fall 2014 Fashion Week. This year, three winning designers will join th...

La maestria e fantasia degli artisti di Sciacca portata in tour in giro per il mondo ha fatto sosta a New York per una mostra nella sede dell'Ice nella Upper East Side di una ricca collezione di oggetti in ceramica, accompagnata da una delegazione istituzionale guidata dal sindaco Fabrizio Di Paola.Sciacca è un comune di circa 41 mila abitanti dell...