Ambrosino: The memory of Time (in Italian, English version coming soon)
FERDINANDO AMBROSINO - LA MEMORIA DEL TEMPO - Opere 1998 - 2009
Mostra curata da Renato Miracco , storico dell’arte e da Sam Bardaouil, curatore del Chelsea Art Museum. (English version coming soon)
Variations on a Theme: Watching and Photographing the World from New Points of View
On Thursday, December 10 the Leica Gallery held the opening reception for Variatio, a new bimonthly magazine dedicated to photographic art. Professor Renato Miracco, editor-in-chief of Variatio, explains why he wanted to open the first issue with a quote from Robert Frank, an artist whose work is currently on display at the Met
Is Italian Cuisine a Victim of its Own Success?
Genuinely Italian, the long-awaited marriage between Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and Gruppo Ristoratori Italiani (GRI). The project will consist of a series of events, lectures, presentations, and a final seminar devoted to the debate on the culture of Italian food and wine which will bring participants into the real world of cooking in the bel Paese in America today
An entry from The Encyclopedia of Imagined Italian-Americana
The lost Christmas special of "The Honeymooners" with an Italian-American theme, from the Imaginarium of Joey Skee.
È la cucina italiana vittima del suo stesso successo?
Con Genuinely Italian, matrimonio tra Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò e Gruppo Ristoratori Italiani (GRI). Una serie di incontri, letture, presentazioni, e un seminario finale, dedicati al dibattito sulla cultura eno-gastronomica italiana
December 13, 2009
An entry from The Encyclopedia of Imagined Italian-Americana
Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) in front of a presepio.
The lost Christmas special of "The Honeymooners" with an Italian-American theme, from the Imaginarium of Joey Skee.
Leonardo Sciascia’s Mafia
Predictably, rhetoric marked the twentieth anniversary of the death of Leonardo Sciascia on November 20. But rhetoric was the opposite of Sciascia. If anything, the Sicilian author was about silences: pregnant silences, dangerous silences, silences that communicate entire worlds with the least nod of a head, or at most with one of the tiny handwritten notes in code, pizzini, used by Bernardo Provenzano.
Con più libri contro la mafia, più liberi dalla mafia. Pietro Grasso e Dacia Maraini
Due linguaggi, un unico obiettivo: combattere la mafia. Per Pietro Grasso e Dacia Maraini. Parole funzionali e parole letterarie insieme. i-Italy le raccoglie all’ 8ª Fiera Nazionale della Piccola e Media Editoria di Roma
Italian/American Trial Styles
The recent trials and tribulations of American-Italian Amanda Fox, and Italian Americans John A. "Junior" Gotti, and Joseph Bruno raise some important questions about the differences between law and justice here (qua) and there (li).
Sunshine & Struggle, The Italian Experience in Los Angeles, 1827 -1927
Some Italian settlers got here nearly a century before those who came to America throuogh Ellis Island. Because of the cultural similarities between the Italians and the Mexicans, they did not face the discrimination that characterized their experience elsewhere in the country.
December 12, 2009
Italian/American Trial Styles
Jerry Krase
In June of 1998, I took the Eurostar from Rome to Perugia where I spent a pleasant afternoon after giving a lecture at the Istituto di Etnologia e Antropologia Culturale, Corso di Antroplogia Visuale, University of Perugia. It wasn't such a wild and crazy place then, but then again, neither was/am I.
The recent trials and tribulations of American-Italian Amanda Fox, and Italian Americans John A. "Junior" Gotti, and Joseph Bruno raise some important questions about the differences between law and justice here (qua) and there (li).
Reality Leaves a Fingerprint on the Biennial with Francesco Bonami
THE NEW YORK TIMES. The 2010 edition of the Whitney Biennial. Next year’s event, which runs from Feb. 25 through May 30, is being organized by Francesco Bonami, 54, the Italian-born curator. And unlike the one in 2006, this Biennial won’t have a theme. Mr. Bonami said he didn’t want one: “The theme is the year — 2010 — which is the title.” (Read the article)
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