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Two Sides of theSame Coin

Fred Gardaphe

In this book we have not only the realizations of the mythical American dream, but also the failures behind the successes, something that has been missing in traditional...

A Citizen of Two Worlds - Interview with Massimiliano Gioni

Letizia Airos

A curator of art exhibitions specializing in contempora-ry art, Gioni is the artistic director of the New Museum here in New York as well as the artistic director of the Nicola...

The Franciscan Revolution

Gennaro Matino

“He shall be called Francis.” Never before had a name rung with such clarity in the ears of those awaiting word of the new Pope in Saint Peter’s.

A Long Journey in the Italian American Story

Suma Kurien and Gianfranco Norelli

"By understanding how Italians became Americans and what happened to them along the way, we have learned a great deal also about America". "Finding the Mother Lode" documents the...

Marinetti in New York City: The Film

Massimiliano Finazzer Flory

Massimiliano Finazzer Flory’s special movie co-produced by i-ItalyTV portrays the founder of the Futurist movement as he journeys between Brooklyn and Manhattan. To the...

Promoting the best of Italy in NY & the Best of America in Italy

Mila Tenaglia

After a rich year of events dedicated to design, culture and art, laFondazioneNY wraps up 2014 on December 8 with a gala to be held at the Museum of the Moving Image. The evening...

Italian Jazz: Scat Is Fundamental

Enzo Capua

Let’s do an experiment. Those of you who don’t make a habit of singing—or are afraid to alarm the neighbors—try intoning a song that you know under the shower or in the...

Durum Wheat vs. Soft Wheat Flour

Dino Borri

Learning to distinguish between the different types of flour is important, since not all flours work equally well for making bread and pasta.

Friar Francis. The Founder of Italian Literary Tradition

Stefano Albertini

What makes Friar Francis so Italian is that he is the author of the first poem in the Italian language: The Canticle of Creatures. And for a nation that for about six centuries...

Gusto. An Encyclopedia of Italian Cuisine

Natasha Lardera

A beautiful book equally at home on the countertop and the coffee table, a rare gem first published in Italy in 2011 that has now been translated into English with a foreword by...

Friar Francis, the Exhibit. “Traces, Words, Images.”

I. I.

A unique exhibition for the first time in the U.S. Every year roughly six million tourists, forty per cent of whom are Americans, come to the medieval city of Assisi in the heart...

Maurizio Cattelan. Art and provocation

Mila Tenaglia

After the great 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim, NY, the irreverent works of the artist Maurizio Cattelan are back… This time there are two events: Sotheby’s Auction...

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