The Annual Gala of La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi is one of the highlights of Italian New York each year, and this year’s event dazzled. The evening is dedicated to the integration of Italian culture and education in New York and beyond. La Scuola, founded in 1977, is a cornerstone in the Italian community in […]
March 20th, 2014 is a memorable day for Italian cultural history in New York with the signing of a “Memorandum of Understanding” between La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi and the University for Foreigners of Perugia (UFP), which takes La Scuola as its model. In the coming months, the Upper East Side Scuola d’Italia, a true […]
Aiming to promote culture and language, the Italian Consulate General in New York is working on a new initiative aimed at creating an English-Italian bilingual section in New York public schools. The Consulate General will develop this project under the Two-Way Bilingual Education Program, an instructional design model outlining methods for the integration of limited English speakers […]
Giovanni Allevi, an Italian pianist, composer and conductor, has garnered lots of attention with his Piano Solo Tour 2014. On March 5th, a full audience of 2,400 at the Teatro Degli Arcimboldi in Milan gave Allevi a standing ovation at the first performance on his cross-country stint. The March 12th performance in Naples and March 13th performance […]
Paolo Sorrentino’s masterpiece La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) won the Oscar for best foreign language film Sunday night March 2. This is 11th Italian film in history to receive an Oscar. An ode to Rome, the film depicts la città eterna as gorgeous, cryptic but full of life. The film’s stupendous cinemetography by Luca Bigazzi […]
TEDxRoma presented Out of the Box at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome to an audience of over 1,000 on February 22, 2014. Leaders with diverse expertise in a variety of fields shared their views on Rome, art, media, technology and business – shedding light on the modernity of the Eternal city. The speakers revealed the contemporary […]
2014 looks to be a promising year for the promotion of twentieth-century Italian art in New York City. The February openings of two new Italian Futurist exhibitions shed light on this dynamic and often misunderstood movement in Italian art. The Guggenheim Museum presents Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe in its iconic rotunda. Organized by Curator […]
Teatro delle Albe is an avant-garde Italian theater company based in Ravenna, Italy. Founded in 1983, the company specializes in innovative and thought provoking plays. Their unique outlook on the art of performance has brought them global acclaim, and the company has won several prizes at international festivals as well as fourteen Ubu Prizes (the Italian […]
Appearing for the first time in the United States, seven reliefs by the great Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova are on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Renowned for his sensual, marble depictions of mythological figures, Canova made these currently featured Biblical scenes for the Tempio Canoviano in his hometown Possagno. The full-scale reliefs […]
Futurism: Concepts and Imaginings is opening January 10, 2014 at the Boca Museum of Art, Florida. The exhibition features seven Italian artists from the first (1908-1919) and second (1920s-1930s) waves of Futurism, a dynamic movement that glorified the energy and speed of modern life. These artists genuinely believed in modern marvels like locomotives, automobiles, and […]