If you ask an Italian where you eat well in Italy, many say: “everywhere but Venice, because it’s a minefield of overpriced, tourist-trap restaurants offering depressingly mediocre food”, but if you’re heading to Venice to see the Tintoretto exhibitions or visit the Armenian island of St. Lazarus, here are some special...

Since 1717 St. Lazarus Island in the Venetian lagoon has been a foremost and deeply revered center of Armenian culture in the world. Visitors to the exhibition, “Armenia!”, on at the Met until January 13, will want to make a pilgrimage to this shrine and sacred place too. For without...

During the 20th century, probably on account of the enormous size of many of his works, very few monographic exhibitions were dedicated to Tintoretto. His birthplace is celebrating with two major exhibitions from September 7, 2018 to January 6, 2019.

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In addition to his famous Visitation, exhibition highlights include the Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap and the Portrait (c.1530) of a Halberdier (only at the Getty) for, besides his religious subjects, Pontormo was a much-admired portraitist (only 15 survive today, 13 being in Italy). 

The first chronologically took place on June 21st at the Stampa Estera or Foreign Press Association in Rome, when Professor Ernesto Solari and handwriting expert Ivana Rosa Bonfantino announced that they had authenticated the earliest known artwork by Leonardo, also his first self-portrait. And not even a month later, on...

On March 1, 2018, after short internships and jobs at several American and European restaurants, he opened his own permanent restaurant at 116 Forsyth Street in New York’s East Village. On May 23rd my husband and I savored the evening’s ten-course tasting menu. A week later I returned in the...

In the spotlight after Pope Francis' visit, Bari is not only southern Italy’s most important commercial center after Naples: it is getting more press and tourists thanks to its incredible and thousand-year-old history, its culture, its art, and its way of living

Pope Francis’ rapport with food continues to interest readers. Due to all the clamor and ink spilt soon after Pope Francis’ election because of his pre-papacy simple lifestyle and taste in food while Archbishop of Buenos Aires, which he continued to prefer as Pope, I became curious about what the...

On Wednesday April 25th the American Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, announced that on July 7 Pope Francis will travel to the city of Bari. At the time of Burke’s announcement I was on my way to Bari at the invitation of BIFEST, an annual film...