Addio a Umberto Eco

ART & THE CITY: THE ITALIAN CONNECTION

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1:00 pm on NYCLife
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- "Una Storia Americana" in Manhattan
Meet illustrators Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli
- Street Art in Harlem
The Mission of the Audubon Mural Project. A creative refuge for endangered birds.
- The ISCP Residency Award in Brooklyn
A conversation with Artists in Residence Margherita Moscardini and Andrea Nacciarriti

Shape & Color @ the New York Fashion Week

Still in the “fashion show-mood” made of runways, spotlights, clothes and accessories of every shape and color, the New York Fashion Week is running out, revealing the fall/winter 2016-2017 collections by major fashion designers, as well as previews of next season’s coolest trends.

Making Foreign Theater in a Foreign Land

As In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY winter edition has come to the end of another successful run, i-Italy had a chance to talk about the global language of theater and the importance of foreign theater with its protagonists: Francesco Foti, writer, director and star of “Niuiòrc Niuiòrc” and Dalila Cozzolino, performer in “L’Italia s’è Desta,” written by Rosario Mastrota.

My Mentors /5. Lisa, a Life in the Service of the Community

My experience in New York would not have been the same without the precious assistance and supportive guidance of Elisabetta Calello, or Lisa, as everybody knows her.

Hollywood Photographer Shares New View of Venice

When I interviewed photographer Charles Christopher near his home in California, I asked him what it is about Italy that makes it so attractive to most Americans. “Everything.” he said.

Italian and American. The Magic of Dual Identity

An established lawyer and an active member of the Italian-American community, Linda Carlozzi tells us about her family roots, how she discovered NIAF, and what’s like to be a woman in a predomi- nantly male world. She also reflects on changing perceptions of Italian-American culture both in the US and in Italy; and offers her take on what should be done to strengthen mutual understing among Italians across the ocean.

Can Lampedusa Become Europe’s Ellis Island?

Ellis Island was an organizational apparatus that implemented a specific project of social engineering aimed at building a new America. Lampedusa is nothing like that. It is merely a place where the Italian government admits migrants without any ultimate aim. Can we change things?

Ellis Island Is Not Answer

I agree with Marcello Saija’s observations on Italy’s and Europe’s chaotic immigration policy, and that both potential immigrant- Europeans and native- born ones would greatly benefit by transforming Lampedusa into a modern version of Ellis Island. However, I have some major cautions as well. America’s immigration policy has never been an instance of “social engineering”...