Arts

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.

The Met pays homage to over fifty years of the Marisa Merz’s activity: from the works of the mid-Sixties, biomorphic sculptures in metal sheet and fragile weavings with nylon thread and copper wire, to the most recent production of sculptures...

In A Cinema of Poetry (2014), Bard College Professor Joseph Luzzi – a prize-winning literary critic and best-selling memoirist of the Italian-American experience – draws on his experiences as a teacher and his extensive knowledge of the history of poetry,...

Despite not having any biographical connection to Italy, Simon Hanes, frontman of Tredici Bacci, has been fascinated with Italian pop culture of the '60s and '70s since he was a kid. In this interview, he tells us about his passion...