Arts - 25 Ottobre Spunky Boston Indie I AM Books Kicks off Two-Day Festival of Italian Culture After a successful debut last year, the IDEA Boston festival is returning packed with an expanded lineup of more than 25 panels, 60 guest speakers from academia to award-winning authors, poets, artists, social and political analysts, actors, musicians, a photo exhibit (open to the public) and a gala to wrap up the two days of intellectual stimulation and live entertainment. While focusing on things Italian, all sessions are held in English for greater accessibility.
Arts - 25 Marzo Verrocchio, the Sculptor, the Painter and the Master of Leonardo In spite of Vasari’s admiration and Verrocchio’s importance as a teacher, up-to-now there has never been an exhibition devoted to him. The event in the Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo Bargello aims to bring valuable insight into the early influence of Florence and of Verrocchio and his workshop on Leonardo’s oeuvre (seven on display here). The National Gallery in Washington D.C. will host a smaller, especially curated version, of the show from 29 September 2019 to 2 February 2020.
Arts - 17 Settembre 2018 Pontormo’s Masterpieces at the Morgan Library & Museum In addition to his famous Visitation, exhibition highlights include the Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap and the Portrait (c.1530) of a Halberdier (only at the Getty) for, besides his religious subjects, Pontormo was a much-admired portraitist (only 15 survive today, 13 being in Italy).
Arts - 3 Febbraio 2018 “Voglia d’Italia”: Collecting Italian Art (1870-1935) One half of the exhibition concerns how foreigners, particularly the English and Americans, collected Italian art in the late 19th – early 20th century; the other is a display of highlights from the extensive polymathic art collection of American diplomat George Washington Wurts (1843-1928) and his millionaire second wife Henrietta Tower (1856-1933).
Arts - 10 Novembre 2017 Michelangelo Pistoletto: “We Want to Bring Art Out of the Museums Into the Streets” Arte Povera Maestro Michelangelo Pistoletto re-enacts his world-renowned performance "Walking Sculpture" by rolling a newspaper-wrapped sphere across the streets of Cold Spring, as a salute to the Hudson Valley, home to Magazzino Italian Art
Arts - 31 Marzo 2017 Optical Interferences: Kinetic Art Comes to New York Op-Art has come back to New York with a collective exhibition at the GR Gallery. On view, innovative artists from different generations and different parts of Europe and America: Felipe Pantone, Gilbert Hsiao, Nadia Costantini and Sandi Renko.
Arts - 12 Febbraio 2017 Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Times "Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Times:" an exhibition celebrating the unrecognised success of Artemisia Gentileschi, a female artist who was undervalued in her time, but managed to achieve recognition in the male-dominated art world of the post-Renaissance era.
Arts - 22 Dicembre 2016 Guido Cagnacci’s Queen of the Nile On loan from the Pinacoteca di Brera, "Dying Cleopatra" by Italian baroque painter, Guido Cagnacci is on view at the Italian Cultural Institute through January 19, 2017. Still best known primarily by a small circle of curators, collectors and connoisseurs, Cagnacci's work is unconventional and powerful.
Arts - 28 Novembre 2016 Dionisio Cimarelli: From China to New York, With Art Born in Jesi, studied at the Academy in Carrara, restoration experience at the Louvre, then nine years in China. Today Dionisio Cimarelli lives in New York, teaches at the New York Academy of Arts, and is planning a retrospective. Art is essential to mankind, he tells us: “I don’t believe in the political function of art”
Arts - 13 Novembre 2016 The Long Lasting Impact of Mario Merz’s Arte Povera Organized in collaboration with Fondazione Mario Merz, the exhibition focuses on three major seminal installations spanning from 1968 to 1977 and featuring some of his signature motifs: the igloo, the Fibonacci sequence, and the use of neon