iItaly.org

"Ravenna after Fifteen Centuries" is a conference conceived to promote the Italian city of Ravenna.
With a history that spans for more than fifteen centuries and with eight UNESCO monuments, the thrice empire capital Ravenna is now considered a model for a small global city.

The initiative, prompted by the University of Bologna and Ravenna Municipality, aims to create a bridge between Ravenna unique past and vibrant present, by promoting the city economic, cultural and civil excellences.

Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce Scultura che non sia conchiglia non canta, an exhibition of new work by Diego Perrone (b. 1970, Asti).
Perrone’s work utilizes a vocabulary of repeated references including ears, horns and bells that result in various shapes and new forms. Despite these reiterations, his works do not coalesce into a singular narrative, but rather emphasize an

The Italian International Dance Festival is a festival that involves Italian dancers, companies and choreographers. A moment of exchange between artists of the new and old world, an "Embrace of Art" where two cultures meet to share this art. The gala evening will host a Lifetime Achievement Award.

On the first day, lessons with Italian teachers and a competition for coreographers for "AJD Emerging Choreographer," which will allow the winner to perform in Italy during Alto Jonio Dance Festival Citta' di Villapiana.

It is Caterina Rago's approach of surrendering her body to powerful emotion that inspires her blazing choreography.
Rago originally from San Lucido, Italy, felt the desire to share her life as a new Italian in NYC.
She officially founded the Caterina Rago Dance Company in 2007 (between rehearsals and performances with the Martha Graham Dance Company) and presented her work in several student showcases and the Graham II NY Season in 2008.
In 2010, two sold-out performances at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center marked CRDC's debut season.

The Drawing Center presents Giosetta Fioroni: L'Argento, the artist's first solo exhibition in North America. Featuring over seventy drawings, thirty paintings, ten illustrated books, two films, and related ephemera, Giosetta Fioroni: L'Argento will not only expand our understanding of post-World War II Italian art but also enable a crucial reinvestigation of the pop aesthetic more generally. It is Fioroni's investment in drawing, which remains at the core of her work, that emphatically distinguishes her practice from that of her American Pop art peers.

Milan Was Asphalt: a book presentation (Theme of Farewell and After-Poems, The University of Chicago Press 2013) with the author Milo De Angelis and the translators, Susan Stewart (Princeton University) and Patrizio Ceccagnoli (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Poetry reading and discussion.

Kips gallery is pleased to present Terre di Nessuno (No Man's Lands) an exhibition of recent paintings by Italian artist Geppy Pisanelli who has lived and worked in New York since 2007. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and his third solo show in New York. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 2, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. During the opening at 7:00 pm, will be a performance of Metropolitan Opera House’s violinist, Pathmore Lewis.

Veronica Santi curator for Spazio 522 Gallery is proud to present Snowing Styrofoam, an exhibition featuring Italian artists Nick Petruccelli and Verdiana Patacchini, both in their debut in the New York art scene. Reading the landscape of cities and embroidering new textures of world, Nick Petruccelli makes its paintings glueing industrial scraps and leather mixed with gloss colors, as if the surface of canvas was a vault of the heaven where other patchwork realities are possible.

Written by Eliza Bent Directed by Anna Brenner

PETITE GEMS: Salvatore di Vittorio Chamber Orchestra of New York