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Fashion Forward: High-End Italian Brands Self-Promote on Madison Avenue

Eleonora Mazzucchi

This year Christmas shopping is hard on consumers and businesses alike. The American market seems hostile, at worst, depressed, so what are Italian luxury brands in the U.S. doing...

Milena Agus wins the 2008 Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò/Città di Roma Prize for Italian Fiction

Marina Melchionda

The prize consists of a grant of $3,000 and, more importantly, a large financial contribution for the translation and publication of her book in the United States. i-Italy...

Elsa Morante Award Ceremony in New York: Campania Wastes Another Occasion

Marina Melchionda

The Italian Cultural Institute of New York will host the event even though Bassolino’s regional government allocated no funds to finance it. “Keeping culture alive in Campania...

Ferzan Ozpetek Showcases His Italian Movies at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Marina Melchionda

MoMA dedicates the second appointment of its series “Filmmaker in Focus” to Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek. During the press conference at the Italian Cultural...

Severgnini Celebrates 10 Years on Corriere.it With a Trip “Around the World in 80 Pizzas”

Gianluca De Nicola

In Italians: Around the World in 80 Pizzas (Italians, Il giro del mondo in 80 pizze) Severgnini, the well-known "Corriere della Sera" journalist, meets “his” Italians abroad...

Michelangelo. La Dotta Mano: When the Renaissance Genius Becomes a Work of Art

Marina Melchionda

"I believe that if Michelangelo lived today, it would be in New York city that he would sculpt his Pietà" said Marilena Ferrari when donating the book to the New York Public...

Great Tenors and Sopranos Leave Italy. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Hosts the Series "Adventures in Italian Opera"

Marina Melchionda

Tenor Marcello Giordani interviewed by Fred Plotkin: “If I had decided to stay in Italy I would be starving by now. In America they gave me the opportunity to grow as an artist...

100 Years after the Messina Earhquake. An Interview with Ambassador Fulci

Marina Melchionda

A few days ago the Consulate General of Italy in New York organized a conference to commemorate the event, an important turning point in the history of the international relations...

Commemorating the Centenary of the Strait of Messina Earthquake at the Italian Academy

Marina Melchionda

On 11/20, “One Hundred Years After the Strait of Messina Earthquake: Emergency Management from Solidarity to Efficiency"

Piero Bassetti's Italici. New & Old Generations in a Glocal World

Damiano Beltrami

"The relationship between Italianità and Italicity is a complex reality on which we have to reflect..." Piero Bassetti, a renowned entrepreneur, politician and public...

De Andre's Music with Mauro Pagani. Interview

Maria Rita Latto

The Italian Consulate General in New York is sponsoring a free public concert which will introduce the U.S. to Fabrizio De Andrè. His music will be interpreted by Mauro Pagani,...

New York Reads New [Graphic] Literature from Europe

Marina Melchionda

This year the New Literature from Europe series will celebrate the graphic novel. Seven of the most famous European representatives of this literary genre will meet their public...

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