The Samuel H. Kress Foundation awards a multi-year grant of $100,000 to the Syracuse Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art
We are very pleased to announce that the Samuel H. Kress Foundation has awarded a multi-year grant of $100,000 to the Syracuse Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art. Together with another grant the Kress Foundation awarded the program in December, this money will provide five years of crucial financial support for our Kress-Florence...
Is That a Real Caravaggio? It’s All in the Detail
Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio (1571-1610), is the most famous Italian painter of the baroque period, and the art trade is always looking for lost works by this fiercely original and timeless artist. But new attributions provoke fierce debates. On Thursday, the art dealer Eric Turquin unveiled a spectacularly well-preserved 17th-c...
Italy Ranked Second Healthiest Country in the World, Bloomberg Reports
The 2019 Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index has been released, and Italy is the second healthiest country in the world. “The boot,” which was ranked no. 1 in 2017 in the biannual index, only fell one slot (Spain took top honors). Researchers attribute part of the positive health trend to a Mediterranean diet, supplemented with extra-virgin olive oi...
It's New: Seppe Pizza Bar brings Neapolitan-style spice to Stapleton
Another pizza place? In a borough full of them, it's somewhat understandable if that's a Staten Islander's reaction when they hear the news. But Seppe Pizza Bar in Stapleton, a new eatery in the URBY apartment complex, wants residents to give its homemade recipes of Neapolitan-style dishes a shot. Seppe opened its doors in early December and is in...
Richard Gardner, Cold War Envoy to an Italy in Strife, Dies at 91
Richard Gardner, who in the late 1970s served as the American ambassador to Italy in a period of political violence there and concern in Washington about the Italian Communist Party’s growing strength, died on Feb. 16 at his home in Manhattan. He was 91. His daughter, Nina Gardner, said the cause was congestive heart failure. While his profile was...
Team Italy pitcher Tommy Layne attempts MLB Comeback with St. Louis Cardinals
Lefty-pitching specialist Tommy Layne will always be remembered as a hero when he played for Team Italy the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC). After pitching a scoreless eighth inning against Mexico,Tommy Layne kept Team Italy in the game as the Azzurri scored five runs in the top of the ninth to win the contest 10-9 on March 9, 2017. He later kept...
Performance Schedule Announced for 7th Annual In Scena! Italian Theater Festival 4/29-5/13
The New York based Kairos Italy Theater and the Italy-based KIT Italia will present the seventh annual In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, a festival of Italian theater taking place in all five boroughs of NYC, April 29-May 13. Each year In Scena! presents a survey of the best Italian theater from Italy, in New York City. The festival features f...
Renowned Italian Pizza Masters Share Their Secrets in the U.S. at Pizza University
Have you ever dreamed of opening a successful, authentic pizzeria, becoming a certified pizzaiolo, or learning the techniques of master pizza makers? There are currently 70,000 pizzerias in the United States, generating $40 billion dollars in revenue. The new course offerings at the Pizza University & Culinary Arts Center are designed to fill a voi...
Sculptor, collector, pizza maker: Fans eager to preserve memory of Redford's Silvio Barile
When news arrived Feb. 16 that 80-year-old baker and self-taught artist Silvio Barile had died at his Redford Township home, the community he loved and fed for decades felt the loss deeply. For people like Bruce Marsalese, Silvio's death prompted nostalgic Facebook reflections about his bakery and pizzeria, which opened in 1960 and remained a Plym...
WEEKEND ITALIANO, a contemporary 2-day Italian food and social event
The Italian Cultural Center is proud to present WEEKEND ITALIANO, a contemporary 2-day Italian food and social event. Join us on Saturday, March 9th and Sunday, March 10th, 2019 at the Food Building in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. Saturday, March 9th, 6:00 - 9:00 PM, we will host a Wine Tasting, an Apericena (Italian-style Happy Hour th...
Forgotten Franklin terror plot turns 100
Everything was calm in town on the evening of Feb. 28, 1919, but behind the Ray Mill of the American Woolen Company at 301 Union St., something sinister was afoot. In the silence of night 100 years ago, four Italian-American anarchists’ plan went horribly wrong when they found themselves the victims of their own plot to blow up the wool and fabric...
Alessandra Belloni Will Hold Concert and Book Launch For 'Healing Journeys With The Black Madonna'
On Tuesday, March 19, Alessandra Belloni and her I Giullari di Piazza performance troupe will return to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave., with a concert, "Healing Journeys With The Black Madonna," and an accompanying book launch. The launch is for Belloni's book, "Healing Journeys With The Black Madonna" (Inner Traditions -...