• Maestro Stefano Miceli & IAF Chairman Hon. Stefano Acunto

    Maestro Stefano Miceli fêted at Harvard Club and Italian Academy Foundation during NY tour

  • IAF Chairman Hon. Stefano Acunto

    Italian Futurists at NYU Casa Italiana

  • i-Italy Video Interview on Eve of IAF Italian Futurists Show Opening

  • Kim Brizzolara and Stefano Acunto at the Perugia Film Festival preview 2011.

    IAF Names Kim Brizzolara to Board of Directors

  • 6_04. Pippo Rizzo_21.7 x 15.5 cm

    Full text of “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”

  • Pepe Rizzo.

    Exhibition Opening: ITALIAN FUTURISTS: Concepts and Imaginings

  • Consul General of Italy in New York Natalia Quintavalle(center) with (left to right), Dott. Ricardo Viale, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York; H.E. Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, Permanent Observer of the Vatican at the U.N.; Ing. Paolo Ghezzi, Vice Mayor, City of Pisa; Fabrizio Michelassi, M.D. Chief of Surgery Cornell Weill and a native Pisan; Steve Acunto, Hon. Vice Consul and host of the event, and Prof. Giovanni Padroni, Director of the Opera della Primaziale Pisana, the enterprise that oversees the Duomo and leaning Tower of Pisa.

    Pisan Delegates Feted in Yonkers

  • Barbara Zorzoli

    Barbara Zorzoli is the new Fashion Columnist for the Italian Journal

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    IAF and the Epoch Times Present Sculptor Sabin Howard

  • monti-NY

    President Monti visits New York

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Maestro Stefano Miceli & IAF Chairman Hon. Stefano Acunto

Maestro Stefano Miceli fêted at Harvard Club and Italian Academy Foundation during NY tour

Maestro Stefano Miceli, one of Italy’s and the musical world’s leading conductors and pianists presented his latest initiative “The Art of the Italian Sonata” during a four day whirl wind tour of New York, under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New York and the Italian Academy Foundation, Inc. Maestro Miceli, who is best known as a conductor and leading pianist with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipizig Gewandhaus and the orchestras of LaScala and other major venues in the world, performed ...

IAF Chairman Hon. Stefano Acunto

Italian Futurists at NYU Casa Italiana

Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò and Stefano Albertini The following article by Natasha Lardera was originally published in i-Italy on April 30, 2012. “The Italian futurists brought down convention in many ways but they were not revolutionary although they thought of themselves that way. They were on an entirely new way forward. I like to see them as inventors rather than responders and the variety of these works shows the variety of their invention,” Stefano Acunto,  founder and president of CINN Group, Inc and Chairman of ...

Giulio D'Anna. Il nuotatore, 1930. Tempera on cardboard.

i-Italy Video Interview on Eve of IAF Italian Futurists Show Opening

i-Italy.org interviews Italian Academy Foundation chairman Stefano Acunto on the eve of the opening of Italian Futurists at the NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. Event Information. Full text of the original Futurist Manifesto

 

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