2008
2008
Sixty-six years ago, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a Sicilian-American bootblack’s decorated shoeshine kit, contributing to the museum director’s eventual dismissal.
In which this blogger says nothing more profound than he really, really likes figs.
Ludic and hybridic reworkings of Catholic imagery and ritual are part of recent reimagining of Italian-American culture and identity.
What happens when a PBS station targets Italian Americans as donors?
Italian Americans gather at a gay bar in Manhattan in celebration of the Black Madonna.
An exhibition presents women’s domestic needlework in Corning, New York.
Jazz pianist Giacinto Figlia aka George Wallington was at the founding of be-bop. Then he disappeared. Now Anthony Scotto’s resurrects his life and music.
Power, Humor, and the Triumph of the Lower Bodily Stratum.
A test of the Internet and i-italy.org's power to connect.
I am reminded of Eugenio Montale's haunting poem upon discovering a simple barrier wall built by an Italian immigrant in Brooklyn during the 1930s.