August
August 28, 2008
Lace in the Crystal City
Joseph Sciorra
The exhibition “Lace, the Spaces Between,” Corning, New York.
An exhibition presents women’s domestic needlework in Corning, New York.
August 24, 2008
A Sicilian named George Wallington
George Wallington album, 1954
Jazz pianist Giacinto Figlia aka George Wallington was at the founding of be-bop. Then he disappeared. Now Anthony Scotto’s resurrects his life and music.
August 20, 2008
Sending a Telegram to the Pope
Power, Humor, and the Triumph of the Lower Bodily Stratum.
August 14, 2008
A digital message in a bottle.
Roman Bronze Works, Brooklyn, circa 1910
A test of the Internet and i-italy.org's power to connect.
August 11, 2008
A wall, a poem, a summer epiphany.
Joseph Sciorra
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2008.
I am reminded of Eugenio Montale's haunting poem upon discovering a simple barrier wall built by an Italian immigrant in Brooklyn during the 1930s.
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