Arts

Lead by maestro Massimo Martinelli, Italian Banda dei Carabinieri performed at Bryant park on April 20th along with special participation from the NYC Police Band. The concert was part of the band's visit to North America, which included performances in...

The English artist known for documenting the quiet space of creation of artists' studios is currently showing in New York a series of drawings inspired by the clouds of L.A., as well as lithographs and video works ranging from a...

The only Italian film competing at the Tribeca Film Festival, Paolo Genovese’s “Perfect Strangers,” was a box office success and was awarded best film at the David di Donatello awards (the Italian Oscars). We interviewed director Paolo Genovese in New...

For centuries, Siena served as a place for pilgrims to rest their heads, yet its own people, beauty, and innovation have remained unheralded. What is it, then, about this Tuscan city that so enchants? Jane Tylus, professor of Italian and...

The bad boy of German filmmaking, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was only 37 years old when he died in 1982. Yet he left behind a legacy of over 44 films and tv shows; and friends and colleagues who still remember his...

An unprecedented look behind the scenes of the Met exhibition, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” and the star-studded fundraiser that celebrated it. But "The First Monday in May" is more than a vanity piece. The film also looks at the...

The Poets' Theatre March production of Mistero Buffo, at the Modern Theatre of Suffolk University in Boston, was not only a return of Fo’s great, often one-man, show, it was also a celebration and memorial. March 24th of this year...

Could the renewal of a a legal system that is the relic of an outdated worldview be the solution for many of the global crises the world is facing? Professor Mattei (Hastings College of Law) talks about his recent book,The...

Renowned film director and actor, Nanni Moretti read from Natalia Ginzburg’s epistolary novel, Caro, Michele.The event was also the occasion to reflect about memory, family and the social dimension of language

He gets his inspiration from the fire and the rain, h creates movement out of stillness, and he finally feels understood. At the opening of Alberto Biasi – A Dynamic Meditation, we interviewed the Italian artist who founded the Gruppo...

Disorientation anguish and introspection dominate the exhibition at the Neue Galerie. With works never shown before in New York, the exhibit investigates the dialogue between one of the fathers of Expressionism and a generation of Austrian-German artists of the early...

At MSU, educators, students, and experts deliberate the Reggio Emilia approach that has already found a place in some New Jersey schools. We spoke to Prof. Gina Miele, whose three children are in this system: "I have seen greater critical...