Italian forces arrest Veneto separatists over alleged plot to attack Venice
Italian special operations units have arrested 24 secessionists who were allegedly planning a violent campaign aimed at gaining independence for the wealthy north-eastern Veneto region.
April 2, 2014
The Bowery Has Left the Building
last group photo taken at 258 Bowery, 2nd Floor, Dixon Place, New York City. Photo: Rosette Capotorto 2014
April 1st, 2014: The Bowery Has Left the Building. Home to Vaudeville and where "the hook" was invented, The Bowery has closed its last performance-art house, Dixon Place, and Founder Ellie Covan has left the building for good. L to R Back Row: ARTISTS: Sophia Ortega, Annie Lanzillotto, Susanna Cook, Gary Ray, Nicky Paraiso. L to R Front Row: Penny Arcade, Ellie Covan, Salley May
April 1st, 2014: The Bowery Has Left the Building. Home to Vaudeville and where "the hook" was invented, The Bowery has closed its last performance-art house, Dixon Place, and Founder Ellie Covan has left the building for good.
2nd Saturdays with IAWA Welcomes Joey Nicoletti and Mark Saba
New York, NY- The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents writers Joey Nicoletti and Mark Saba on Saturday, April 12, 2014, at the Sidewalk Café, 94 Avenue A (at 6th Street) in New York City’s East Village, www.sidewalkny.com; 212-473-7373. The reading takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and kicks off with Open Mic readings of five minutes after which the featured writers take the stage.
Saudi royal family could pay for restoration of Roman monuments
A training barracks used by Roman gladiators and the 2,000-year-old mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus could be restored with money from the Saudi royal family, in the latest effort by Italy to secure funding for its crumbling cultural heritage.
From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour
A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world's perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style. The word glamour originally meant magic or enchantment: to "cast a glamour" was to cast a spell to make something appear different from reality. And it is glamour in this sense – what the author Virginia Postrel calls nonverbal rhetoric – that is at the heart of the V&A's new exhibition, The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014.
Italian D.J. Fights to Keep Culinary Traditions
Daniele De Michele, a bearded and boisterous D.J. and performance artist who is one of Italy’s most inventive food activists, is on a yearlong journey to explore and document the country’s working-class and peasant culinary traditions.
Maria Bartiromo Awarded the 2014 Urbino Press Award
An Italian award, annually given to an American journalist will be awarded to a true star American financial reporter. The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Claudio Bisogniero will deliver the official announcement, on April 15 at an event organized at the Embassy in Washington.
Modà. 5 guys from Milan to NYC with Their Pop-Rock
Modà is a very famous Italian pop rock band from Milan. In May, the group will hit the road for an international tour which will take them throughout Europe and to the US.
Modà will perform at the Highline Ballroom in NYC on Wednesday, May 21, 2014.
A Maria Bartiromo l'Urbino Press Award 2014
Sarà consegnato a qeulla che può considerarsi una vera e propria “star” dei reporter finanziari americani il premio italiano che ogni anno viene assegnato ad un giornalista americano. A darne l’annuncio ufficiale sarà l’Ambasciatore d’Italia negli Stati Uniti, Claudio Bisogniero, il 15 aprile prossimo in occasione di un evento organizzato presso l’Ambasciata a Washington
Gaetano Pesce. Diversità e provocazione nel design
Il maestro del design italiano, si racconta nel suo atelier-studio a Soho. La conversazione avviene tra celebri opere che lo hanno reso punto di riferimento internazionale. Tra arte, design e architettura. Nel mese di giugno, al museo Maxxi di Roma, la sua attesa retrospettiva.
Rimanete sintonizzati su i-Italy. Presto l'intervista video su i-Italy TV e su youtube
Gotham Prize. L'ambiente che muta e si sedimenta
"Gotham Prize" per promuove l’eccellenza dell’arte contemporanea italiana a New York. Il progetto, alla terza edizione, è dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York. Scrittori, musicisti, registi, artisti, designer… Quest’anno i vincitori sono: il collettivo artistico ZimmerFrei e il pittore Andrea Chiesi.
Italy should do more for migrants, says speaker
Italy must do more for the migrants who land on its shores, many in dire straits, Lower House Speaker Laura Boldrini told MPs on Monday.
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