Nancy Olnick may live in New York, but she embraces the Italian culture in all aspects of her life. Before she met her Sardininan- born husband Giorgio Spanu in 1989, Olnick collected 1960s Pop art. They took a mutual interest in the Arte Povera movement and began building their collection. This movement originated in Italy. It consists of […]
Editor in Chief of i-Italy magazine, Letizia Airos, has announced an expansion of the New York-based magazine of Italian events, affairs and culture to Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. The media enterprise has expanded from their four year long history of covering the New York area only. The goal is a more […]
The Boston Public Library plans to return several historical artifacts to Italy after discovering their origins. The items include two manuscripts from the Middle Ages and a collection of works by Renaissance philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio. They were purchased legitimately from various rare books dealers and were kept under the stewardship of the Boston […]
Selected works by Rome-based artist Claudia Palmira are on exhibit in her native New York City. The exhibit, titled “Icons/Poetics”, is showing at the Union League Club Gallery until May 31. Sixteen of Palmira’s mixed media, satin on acrylic prints are on view. Palmira, also known as Vice Chairman of the Italian Academy Foundation and editor […]
An exhibition at the Museo del Novecento and the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan focuses on depictions of New York City through the eyes of Italian artists. “New York New York. Italian Art: rediscovering America” features works by Italian artists who have used art to express their perception of the United States, and of New York […]
Giusy Nicolini, mayor of the small Italian island of Lampedusa, was awarded the UNESCO Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize on April 19, 2017. The prize is awarded to a person or organization that has made “a significant contribution to promoting, seeking, safeguarding or maintaining peace”. Previous winners include Nelson Mandela and Francois Hollande. Nicolini received the prize […]
The New York University School of Professional Studies (NYUSPS) hosted leaders in the ethical fashion movement at Casa Italiana. The April 5 Panel was titled Sustainability of Ethical Fashion in our Brave New World and was the second panel of an NYUSPS-hosted initiative called Dialogues in Languages and Humanities. The panel, moderated by the founder […]
Columbia University is set to unveil two new buildings in a campus expansion designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The new campus, located in the Manhattanville (or West Harlem) neighborhood in New York, is the university’s largest expansion in 100 years. Columbia hopes that the Manhattanville expansion will allow for a greater integration of the […]
La Scuola D’Italia Guglielmo Marconi hosted a gala benefit dinner on March 24 to celebrate the school’s 40th anniversary. Founded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977, La Scuola is a Pre-K—12 bilingual school in Manhattan and is the only school in North America to offer a bilingual curriculum in English and Italian. […]
The bestselling novels of Italian author Elena Ferrante are set to come to life in a 32-part television series directed by Saverio Costanzo. The series, entitled “The Neapolitan Novels”, is based on the four-part book series of the same name. Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels were published between 2012 and 2015 and follow the lives of two […]