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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 ...

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 ...

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

IAF Names Kim Brizzolara to Board of Directors

Kim Brizzolara has joined the executive board of the Italian Academy Foundation, Inc. Ms. Brizzolara is a feature and documentary film producer, and serves as an advisor to several non-profit organizations. She is executive vice chair of the Hampton’s International Film Festival, serves on the Board of the We are Family Foundation, and Creative Visions, and is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Previously, she worked as a grantsmaker for the ...

Full text of “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”

On the occasion of Italian Futurists , the upcoming IAF-sponsored exhibit at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, here is the text of the article by F.T. Marinetti printed in the French publication Le Figaro (Paris, February 20, 1909) that accompanies our exhibition catalog. Below are three versions of the manifesto: English, Marinetti’s native Italian and the original French.   English The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brass ...

Exhibition Opening: ITALIAN FUTURISTS: Concepts and Imaginings

Italian Academy Foundation, Inc. and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò present ITALIAN FUTURISTS CONCEPTS AND IMAGININGS An exhibit of thirty-eight works in various media of Italian futurist artists including D’Anna, Dottori, Rizzo, Bragaglia and others, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stefano Acunto. These works, from the 1st and 2nd wave of futurist artists, illustrate their thinking on energy, color and multimedia possibilities. Opening : April 26, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. On view Mon-Fri 10-5, through June 1, 2012 An ...

Pisan Delegates Feted in Yonkers

In the famous Broadway show Gigi, Lerner and Loewe included a comic dialogue between two bored Parisians discussing the joys and wonders of the world, including the leaning Tower of Pisa. The optimist declared: “The leaning tower I adore, “ to which the pessimist replied: “Indecision is a bore”. There is no indecision, however, in the determination of a delegation from Pisa to bring to light –and to New York–all that is happening in their home town, from the Leaning ...

Barbara Zorzoli is the new Fashion Columnist for the Italian Journal

The Italian Academy Foundation, Inc. is very pleased to announce journalist and media personality Barbara Zorzoli as the new fashion columnist for the Italian Journal. In her own words, Ms. Zorzoli lives “up in the air” between Genoa (her birthplace) and London, where she interviews actors and directors, attends premieres and visits movie sets. Zorzoli is a contributing editor for Vogue Italia, the Italian Vanity Fair, Film doc and many other cinema magazines. She also writes about soundtracks for www.colonnesonore.net ...

IAF and the Epoch Times Present Sculptor Sabin Howard

From March 2 through March 22 the Italian Academy Foundation is presenting an exhibition of Sabin Howard sculptures at the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art (ICAA) in New York City. The Epoch Times, which recently ran a feature article on Sabin, believes his classical style “stands in opposition to the many more abstract sculptures that have become the bread and butter of modern sculptors and the center of the contemporary art world.” IAF Chairman Steve Acunto wholeheartedly agrees with this ...

President Monti visits New York

IAF Chairman Stefano Acunto remarks on Prime Minister Monti: [at 8:54 minutes] After three months in office, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti visited “the city of the stock market”, as he describes New York.  His intention was to instill confidence in American investors and applaud the Italian and Italian-American community in the United States for honoring their Italian heritage and remaining an integral part in the history of America. His words did not fall on deaf ears, as over 200 ...