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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

Notes Toward an “Apollonian” Renaissance

The past has not deceived us. We have all read revolutionary literature from Greek, Roman and Christian times through to Nietzsche and his “revaluation of all values” and right up to the long line of artistic manifestos of the 20th century, starting with the Italian futurists in 1910. What follows is an exhortation, a slightly revolutionary manifesto itself, inasmuch as it looks back, way back to find a basis for future excellence in art, respecting the past, which, to parody ...

From Hon. Stefano Acunto: Spring 2011

Dear Members and Friends, The Italian Academy Foundation., Inc. has enjoyed an upbeat year in its activities and collaborations, fulfilling our 64-year-old mission of cultural diplomacy between Italy and the United States. During this past year, we have established a collaboration with Maestro Andrea Bocelli, Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi of New York and Dr. Franco Mosca of Pisa to create a documentary film “The Healer’s Art”, reflecting the focus of the Art of Medicine initiative we began this year with Maestro ...