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The year 1920 marked the turning-point in Italy’s postwar crisis. Left-wing agitation and the threat of revolution reached their climax in September 1920, with the occupation of Italy’s largest factories by the workers. In Turin, Antonio Gramsci emerged as the theorist of the factory council movement as an authentic expression of the revolutionary proletariat. A minority of the Futurists responded by forging links with the Proletkult movement in the Soviet Union. However, Soviet collectivism troubled Marinetti, and many artists, who reasserted the primacy of the individual

Is there a literary counterpart to what art historians call the ‘Scuola Metafisica’? Giorgio de Chirico himself wrote disquieting poems, dreamlike prose, and even an experimental novel, while his brother Alberto Savinio became one of Italy’s most celebrated modernist authors and was included in André Breton’s foundational anthology of black humor. Another painter, Filippo de Pisis, claimed to have invented ‘Metaphysical narrative’ in Ferrara, and the early work of vanguardists, such as Palazzeschi, Delfini, and Govoni, has often been associated with Metaphysical art.

Bordighera Press is internationally recognized as the foremost publisher of italianità in North America. Commemorating thirty years of publishing authors in the Italian diaspora, this event will feature three recent publications, Not for Nothing by Kathy Curto, Bitter Bites from Sugar Hills by Sara Fruner, and Il cucchiaio trafugato by Angelo Spina.
 

An evening dedicated to Milan with Stefano Boeri, architect and President of Fondazione La Triennale, in conversation with Noemi Bonazzi and Peter Eisenman, moderated by Matteo Milani.

Please join us for a special MEET ITALY presentation in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute.

Our Keynote speaker will be Maurizio Vecchione, Executive VP, Global Good and Research at Intellectual Ventures (IV). In this role, Maurizio oversees Global Good, IV’s collaboration with Bill Gates to invent and deploy technology specifically focused on improving life in developing countries, as well as the research and operations of the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory (IV Lab) and Institute for Disease Modeling.

Part of Carnegie Hall’s Spring 2019 MIGRATIONS Festival

John Corigliano: Fantasy on an Ostinato 
Nino Rota: a selection from 15 Preludi 
Chick Corea: Children’s Songs 10-20
Curtis Cacioppo: Armed and Dangerous (fantasy-variations on L’Homme Armé)
Missy Mazzoli: Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos 
Frederic Rzewski: Down by the Riverside
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (from North American Ballads)

Registration: [email protected]
Free and open to the public

Participants: Giuliano Amato, Anthony Appiah, Karen Barkey, Seyla Benhabib, Sheri Berman, Giancarlo Bosetti, Jose Casanova, David Freedberg
Andrea Graziosi, Stanley Greenberg, Stephen Hanson, Joseph LaPalombara, Jonathan Laurence, Soli Özel, Ece Temelkuran, Michael Walzer

In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. The encounter will go on to alter all of their lives.

A creator is someone who invents something that was not there before: being a scientist, an artist, an entrepreneur. Italian history boasts many examples of famous creators, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci, whose 500th anniversary from his death is celebrated this year. Together with the journalist Maria Teresa Cometto we have organized a series of conversations with Italian professionals who master this creative ability, which is one of the peculiarities of Italian personality.

An exhibition curated by Patricia Belen, Greg D'Onofrio, Melania Gazzotti.

Italian graphic design has had a lasting influence on the American visual and cultural landscape. From Fortunato Depero’s move to New York City in 1928 to Unimark International’s corporate identity work of the 1960’s and 70’s, Italian graphic designers were living and publishing important work in the U.S in the last century.