Arts

In "Italia. L'invenzione della patria," Fabio Finotti, Mariano DiVito chair in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, explores centuries of literature and cultural output in the Italian peninsula, tracing how the meaning of the term patria has been changing

Rhiannon Noel Welch's new book, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920 (Liverpool University Press, 2016), aims to revise the general perception of Italy's colonial past by showing how race and colonialism were essential components of the period between Unification...

"The Leonardo da Vinci Experience" opened at Via della Conciliazione in mid-February. But there are also two other permanent “museums” devoted to Leonardo in Rome. They all celebrate the special relationship between the Eternal City and the Italian genius and...

Op-Art has come back to New York with a collective exhibition at the GR Gallery. On view, innovative artists from different generations and different parts of Europe and America: Felipe Pantone, Gilbert Hsiao, Nadia Costantini and Sandi Renko.

A sixteenth-century book offers an insight on the issues that the women had to face in Renaissance Venice and still have to face today: violence, betrayal, family care, and inequality. Kairos Italy Theater's "The Worth of Women" takes us to...

“The Eyes Change:” a series of documentaries – Laugh, Love, Sing, Root, Know, Imagine – to describe 50 years of RAI and how the way we look at something changes us. Walter Veltroni told the New York IIC audience about...

  In a wide-ranging meditation on the changing conceptualization of territory and borders throughout time, Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, considers the birth of the frontier, the different spaces of empires and states, and Italy’s...

Afro-Italian filmmaker Fred Kuwornu's new documentary "Blaxploitalian" explores the social issues and complexities of Italy's contemporary society, and criticizes the Italian entertainment industry for being oblivious of non-white Italians

Staged in anticipation of the centennial of the Russian Revolution, the exhibition draws from the museum’s extensive permanent collection of Soviet works ranging from 1912 until 1935 and can be seen as an expansion on vision of Alfred Barr, the...

After many awards for the documentary on Andrea Doria’s sinking, Luca Guardabascio flies to Los Angeles for the showing of “Are the Passengers Saved?” In this extended interview, the director tells about himself and analyzes the relationship between Italian movies...

As a tribute to the Venetian culture and to the love story between Venice and music, The Carnegie Hall of New York will host a musical festival and other cultural initiatives from Feb. 3rd to Feb. 21st. We went to...

"Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Times:" an exhibition celebrating the unrecognised success of Artemisia Gentileschi, a female artist who was undervalued in her time, but managed to achieve recognition in the male-dominated art world of the post-Renaissance era.