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An extraordinary opportunity to show the American public one of the most highly representative works by Caravaggio, directly from The Musei Capitolini, Rome - The Cultural Heritage Department of the Municipality of Rome.His paintings combine a realistic observation of the human state with a dramatic use of light which made him the Master of Baroque school of painting.This exhibition is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the Speed Art Museum.

“Origin of Life in the Universe. An Encounter of Astronomy and Biology” ” is the first out of three lectures on hot science issues by Vittorio Canuto (former senior scientist at NASA, now Professor at Columbia University). He will converse with Cristiano Galbiati (Professor of Physics at Princeton University).In this first lecture, Vittorio Canuto will present a general panorama of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang some 14 billion years ago, how galaxies and then stars came into being and how life evolved in the primitive planet Earth.

The third International Art Festival Of Spirituality, founded by Pamela Villoresi, will open on the 18th of May at the Italian Cultural Institute with a round table discussion on “Terre Sacre” (Sacred Home), on a spiritual feelings of belonging to the own homeland.Guests (TBA) will discuss topics on the exodus and exile.Artists from different backgrounds have been invited to reflect upon the concept of “home”.The program includes performances located in different places.On May, 19th the performance “Il Leone Maremmano” by Pamela Villoresi hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute will discus

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Nobel Prize winners for Economics Kenneth Arrow, Daniel Kahneman and Oliver Williamson will speak on: “The future of Economics: Updating Bounded Rationality”, The First Herbert Simon Society Seminar organized by The Italian Cultural Institute of New York in collaboration with The Rosselli Foundation.Prof.

The series Antonio Meucci Honorary Lectures, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, under the Patronage of The Embassy of Italy to the US, will start with a lecture on “the Mirror Mechanism” by Italian neurophysiologist and Senior Scientist Prof. Giacomo Rizzolatti.Prof. Rizzolatti, Director of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Parma, will lecture on his paradigm-shattering discovery, in the early 1990s, of the mirror-neuron system in humans which explains the human capacity to learn by imitation.With an introduction by Prof.

“The Eerie Silence. Is There Life in the Universe or Are We Alone?” is the last lecture on hot science issues by Vittorio Canuto (former senior scientist at NASA, now Professor at Columbia University). He will converse with Massimo Pigliucci (Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College).In his third talk, Vittorio Canuto will discuss the possible existence of life on other planets. We are living in an extraordinary time of discoveries of planets none of which is as yet “earth like” but the expectations are justifiably high that it is just a question of time before we do.

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The best Italian quality movies
will be showcased with the eleventh edition of the annual Open Roads, organized
by The Film Society of Lincoln Center together with Cinecittà Luce- Filmitalia. This edition
will offer a deep insight on the new generation of Italian filmmakers, with
their new stories and their surprisingly new ways to tell them.

Thus, we are delighted to
announce the brand new movie The Salt of Life (2011), by Gianni Di Gregorio, that will
open the festival.

The Italian Cultural Institute of New York in collaboration with the Jewish Museum, New York, invites you to a lecture by Alain Elkann: “Jewish Italian Writers of the Twentieth Century”. Noted Italian writer and journalist Alain Elkann will talk about the contribution to the Italian literature of the twentieth century given by prominent writers of Jewish descent, such as Umberto Saba, Carlo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, Primo Levi, Alberto Moravia, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, Franco Fortini.Alain Elkann (born in New York 1950) graduated in Law from the University of Geneva.