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The Circolo Culturale Italiano of the United Nations hosts the art exhibition by the Italian painter Tony Zanardi. Born in Padova, in 1944, Tony Zanardi develops his passion for painting in his adolescent years, when he finds out that colors and brushes are the best media to express his need to explore and communicate his innermost feelings. Traveling all over the world to look for inspiration, he finally found it in the blinding colors and light of Samanà, Dominican Republic, and in the tranquility of the Tverskaia Oblast woods in Russia.

The Italian Cultural Institute and Centro Primo Levi present UN GIORNO CON LUCIA by Olivia Fincato and Renato D’Agostin A book based on based on the encounter with Lucia Servadio Bedarida, the youngest female doctor in Italy who became the first woman physician in Morocco, mindful of 106 years of life. Thursday, December 6, 2007 – Italian Cultural Institute Lucia Servadio Bedarida: A Life of Giving. Exhibition of photographs and book presentation.

During the 17th century, Italy experienced an extraordinary artistic richness, particularly in the cities of Rome and Bologna, where outstanding artists converged, such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Poussin, and Velasquez.

Maria Grazia Cipriani and designer Graziano Gregori gave birth to the Teatro Del Carretto in 1983, a creative union that has thrived ever since. Their first production is the performance Biancaneve, a play where all the elements of their theatrical ideals are gathered together. The success of Biancaneve was so immediate that it became one of the most performed Italian plays on international stages.

Vinicio Capossela, winner of the Tenco Prize (Italy’s equivalent to the UK’s Mercury Prize), is at the forefront of a new generation of singer-songwriters reinventing Italian song. He has been invited to New York on January 13 to perform on a very prestigious showcase called GlobalFEST. This event is attended by arts presenters from throughout the United States. In the last five years, GlobalFEST has become the U.S.'s leading showcasing event for artists performing a huge range of styles from around the world.

The Pearl Theatre Company continues its acclaimed 24th Season with the staging of a world premiere translation by Peter Constantine. Crawling with social parasites and crooked conspirators, The Mandrake (1513) remains one of the bawdiest plays of the Italian Renaissance. Here is the wicked and uproarious lighter side of political mastermind Niccolò Machiavelli, as he reflects on a world where cunning, vice, and mischief wins the day. Callimaco will dare anything to bed the beautiful and married Lucrezia and he needs all the help he can get.

The Italian Cultural Institute presents a photo exhibition by Mario Giacomelli, one of the most renowned Italian photographer worldwide. Giacomelli (Senigallia, Italy, 1925-2000) was a self-taught photographer. At 13 he left high school, began working as a typesetter and spent his weekends painting. After the horrors of World War II, he turned to the more immediate medium of photography. He wandered the streets and fields of post-war Italy, inspired by the gritty Neo-Realist films of Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini.

The Italian Cultural Institute, in association with Centro Primo Levi, the Consulate General of Italy, New York University Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, and the Italian Academy at Columbia University, invites you to attend a series of events held in observance of Giorno della Memoria on January 27, 29, and 30, 2008. Please also consider joining us on Monday, January 28 between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm in front of the Consulate General of Italy at 688 Park Avenue (68th Street) for the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the former Italian territories.

The Doccia Museum houses the collection of one of the oldest porcelain factories in Europe still in existence, the Manifattura Ginori. Each of the most significant phases of its extensive production is represented by objects which can immediately be distinguished from those produced by other factories of the same era. Recent research has demonstrated the importance of the repertory of sculpture models collected by Marquis Carlo Ginori (1702-1757).

Antonio Ciacca, pianista, composer, director of concert and programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center, a refreshing voice in jazz. Defined as a great pianist by Benny Golson in an interview on the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Antonio Ciacca has gained an international reputation, after having toured with Benny Golson quintet and Steve Lacy quartet. Antonio’s career started as a sideman for Art Farmer, James Moody, Lee Konits, Jonny Griffin, Mark Murphy, Dave Liebman. Steve Grossman, who introduced him to jazz.