Arts

La Notte della Taranta 2016, the festival's nineteenth edition, runs from August 8-27 in the Grecia Salentina of the Lecce. Although tarantismo has died out, its music not only has survived but thrives. Last year's edition drew the largest crowds...

Nicolaia Rips, a 17 year old memoirist, recently released her first work entitled "Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel", detailing her unique upbringing in the historic establishment that was home to both great love and great...

Works spanning the artist's entire career chronologically unfold along the spiral ramps of the museum. Moholy-Nagy radically innovated the art of the twentieth century, he was among the promoters of Bauhaus and sperimented with the elements of visual perception

Objects of art activated by a spectator’s movement, spherical mirrored caps, lights that morph to create rainbow compositions. From the Seventies until today, this Italian artist never stopped experimenting: the exhibition Revolution is a unique opportunity to see his work...

Social media can connect Italian language and culture communities and learners in innovative online learning spaces that extend traditional physical boundaries of the classroom and provide real-life, socially relevant situations with authentic exchanges, engaging learners in Italian

Mia Madre is the touching story of a middle-aged woman juggling with her job as a film director while raising a teenage daughter and caring for her sick mother. Starring Margherita Buy, John Turturro and Moretti himself, the film beautifully...

In anticipation of the release of his latest film in American movie theatres, we asked director and actor Nanni Moretti to tell us about this new chapter of his four decade career of film making in which he has constructed...

Musical prodigy Francesco Cafiso took up the saxophone when he was nine years old. With his recent work, he has infused his jazz with sicilianità. In New York Cafiso and his trio (bassist Marco Panascia and McClenty Hunter on drums)...

Studying Italian can open numerous doors, especially in the greater NY area. Italian can be a vital asset for teaching as well as for additional professional opportunities in fields that are often overlooked: fashion or sports marketing, accounting or international...

Eight young Italian artists tell of their living experience in the US through their Art, utilizing different languages and materials. Watercolor, sculpture, photography and installations become the means to investigate the ambiguity of the society between myth and reality 

Stephanie Malia Hom, author of The Beautiful Country. Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2015), discusses how her research on Italy as a powerful touristic imaginary can help us to better understand the national...

She travelled by ocean liner to New York in May 1953 to present “Bellissima” and from that became an international Diva. What ensued was her friendship with Tennesse Williams, an Oscar, meeting Marilyn Monroe at the Italian Cultural Institute, and...