One World. Chatting with Claudio Baglioni
One of the most beloved artists in Italian popular music history speaks with us from Rome about his tour which will come to New York with a much-anticipated concert at the Angel Orensanz Foundation. There will also be a talk with Baglioni at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò on December 16.
Presepe is Art and Hope. We Met the "Mago delle Moschelle"
The exhibit "Nativity in the World/ from Naples to New York" opens up at the Italian Cultural Institute. "The presepe is something new based upon tradition, something new which can create work force today" says the curator -Filomena Maria Sardella- who also stresses the message of hope embedded in this show. For Giuseppe Reale, Director of Museo Arci,"in a city and land so affected by individualism and fragmentation, the presepe, as a choral activity, which can help the reconstruction". The masterpieces of contemporary presepio art will be, along with older ones, on view until January 18.
Quando il presepe è arte e speranza. Incontriamo il Mago delle Moschelle
La mostra, voluta dal cardinale di Napoli Crescenzio Sepe, "Nativity in the World/ from Naples to New York", apre all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura". "Il presepe è un nuovo che si basa sulla tradizione per creare forza lavoro oggi” ci dice la curatrice - Filomena Maria Sardella - e sottolinea anche il grande valore di speranza che può avere una mostra così. Per Giuseppe Reale, Direttore del Museo ARCI, "in una terra che è malata di individualismo e di frammentazione il presepe, come attività corale, può aiutare la ricostruzione".
December 12, 2010
The Architecture of Luigi Nervi: where Brunelleschi meets Newton
Luigi Nervi
With the 1943 Milan lynching, northern-Italian communist vented their vengeful lust on the Fascist. However, the architectural-engineering genius of the Fascist period was not only spared, but embraced.
Italian hospital asks doctors not to snort cocaine at work
AFP. An Italian hospital director sent a memo to doctors and nurses asking them not to snort cocaine while on duty, the ANSA news agency reported. (Read the article)
Writer Moravia's house becomes museum, '20-year battle', say trustees
ANSA Italian writer Alberto Moravia could see the Tiber River flowing downhill from his apartment in Rome. Twenty years after his death, visitors to the Eternal City will be able to do the same, from the same window. (Read the article)
Botticelli exhibit unveils surprises for art scholars Show at Milan's Poldi Pezzoli museum gathers eight key works
ANSA. In honor of the 500th anniversary of the death of Sandro Botticelli, an exhibit at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan unites for the first time all of the Renaissance painter's works in public collections in Lombardy. (Read the article)
O PRESEPE A NUOVA YORK FROM NAPLES
A sneak-peak at the upcoming exhibition. Enjoy some incredibly charming presepi at the Italian Cultural Institute from December 14 2010 to January 18, 2011
“Dire Napoli al mondo”. Il Cardinale Crescenzio Sepe parla del suo imminente viaggio a New York
Il Cardinale di Napoli Crescenzio Sepe sarà a New York il prossimo gennaio, dove incontrerà la comunità italiana, personalità del mondo della cultura, dell’arte, studiosi, uomini di fede e laici. Il viaggio ha un titolo “Dire Napoli” ed uno slogan “Non chiudere le porte alla Speranza”. Tra i momenti più significativi saranno l’incontro con il Rabbino Schneier e i leader della comunità ebraica di New York, una tavola rotonda organizzata dal John D.
“Telling Naples to the World”. Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe on His Imminent Visit to New York
The Cardinal of Naples will be in New York this coming January, where he will meet the Italian community, personalities of the cutural and artistic world, academics, scholars, men of faith and laymen alike. His journey is entitled “Dire Napoli” with a slogan: “Don’t shut the door to hope.” Among the most significant moments of Crescenzio Sepe’s stay in New York will be the meeting with Rabbi Schneier and the leaders of the Jewish community, a round table organized by the John D.
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