Arts

From Palazzo Barberini to Villa Borghese, from the Ara Pacis to the Gallery of Modern Art, from the Victor Emanuel Monument to the "Scuderie": Rome shows all its cultural worth thanks to the exhibitions opened now in various historical sites...

Following his performance in Boston, Francesco De Gregori will perform at The Town Hall in Manhattan on November 7th, to also bring “his” Bob Dylan in Italian: “I hope to have preserved his sound, which was the first problem that...

Lauren LoGiudice channels film icon Greta Garbo to give you an opinion on Weinstein straight out of Old Hollywood. "What’s even more predictable about the debacle is the opportunistic response of many in Hollywood. 'Oh, I had NO idea!'. Of...

The launch of the new translation of Calvino's novel “The Baron in the Trees” gives NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò the chance to bring Giovanna Calvino and Richard Gere together. “‘The Baron in the Trees’ is the world of dreams I...

An "instinctive dreamer," a true Sicilian ("While I wrote a scene, I realized that I keep seeing myself in it more and more"), a director that loves his film as if it were his own child ("For this reason, I...

Cultural consumption is a historical legacy of the Renaissance that still permeates our ways of thinking, communicating and interacting. The modern-day renaissance generation consists of millions of individuals, highly diversified on age, who share a passion for entrepreneurship associated with...

In his US appearances, Francesco De Gregori brings his latest album "De Gregori sings Bob Dylan - Love and theft", featuring the interpretations of 11 songs by Dylan, which he personally reproduced. Author of 32 albums, an intense life between...

"Toscanini: Musician of Conscience", this definitive volume by Harvey Sachs, a brilliant writing that reads like a gripping novel, and which will likely rekindle the public’s interest in the greatest conductor of the 20th century. Arturo Toscanini is a model...

East meets West as images from one of the most ancient, mystical civilizations, come to the cobble-stoned streets of the Medieval city of Florence, the city of Dante and Boccaccio. "The Florence Biennale is very meaningful to me for I...

This past summer, I saw two performances. Although they were very different from one another, they made me think that despite the constant economic crises and insufficient budgets of the opera companies, an aging audience, and the miserable state of...

Michelangelo Antonioni’s movies “Le amiche”, “L’avventura”, “Eros”, “Zabriskie Point”, “Red Desert”, “The Passenger” have been screened at the Metrograph within the retrospective “Antonioni X 6”, from August 22 through 29, 2017

Who doesn’t love at least one Muppet character even if you did not grow up with them? And who wouldn’t want the Muppets as next-door neighbors? To Hollywood and back to Queens they are now on display permanently at the...