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 […]
The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. is hosting an exhibit featuring three generations of work from the famed Della Robbia family of Italian sculptors. From now until June 5th, visitors can admire the signature terra cotta sculptures of Luca Della Robbia and his proteges, Andrea and Giovanni. Born in Florence in the 15th […]
New York and Los Angeles join over 100 other cities around the world in celebrating Italian Design Day, Thursday, March 2. Initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Italian Design Day promotes Italian […]
Since 2012, the Italian Embassy has partnered with the Italian diplomatic network in the United States to put on a Digital Diplomacy series as a way to evaluate social media platforms through foreign policy topics. The panel discussion this year was held on February 13th and specifically focused on the intersection between the news and […]
Italian police have recovered 14 paintings, including one Salvador Dalí, from the collection of Gioacchino Campolo, an Italian businessman and convicted criminal with known mafia ties. Police found the first painting, which depicted Jesus healing a blind man, after following a search warrant to a home in Reggio Calabria. A crosscheck of the Italian database […]
After a long evaluation of ten competitive candidates, a jury appointed by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism voted Palermo, the capital of Sicily, as the Italian Capital of Culture 2018. This coveted title, which spans the duration of one year, serves to promote tourism in the city through various economic benefits – […]
The Venus of Botticelli, c. 1485-90, from the Savoy Gallery in Turin, flies to the US to participate to the exhibition “Botticelli and the Search fot the Divine: Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires on the Vanities”. It will be her first time in the USA: the exhibition opens at the Muscarelle Museum on […]
Italy has become vulnerable as the acts of vandalism against monuments and cultural heritage in the Italian cities of art seem to have multiplied in recent years. January 23, 2017 was the latest affront: the victim was the Colosseum. Staff at the site had a shock to deal with, in the form of graffiti on one of the […]