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  • Life & People

    ‘Iron Lady’ Italian Style

    Maria Teresa Cometto(March 07, 2016)
    “She must be a very determined person”— that’s how she struck me the moment I met her in September 2011, when she had just taken office here. And, well, the way she has steered the biggest Italian institution in the Big Apple for the last four years, Natalia has lived up to that impression.
  • Art & Culture

    Ambrogio Maestri to Make his Debut as Don Pasquale At New York' s Met

    M. T.(March 02, 2016)
    Following last January’s success of his interpretation of Compare Alfio in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana in New York, Italian baritone from Pavia Ambrogio Maestri is about to return to the Met where he will face a great new role for the first time: that of Don Pasquale. Gaetano Donizetti’s masterpiece, conducted by Maurizio Benini and presented in Otto Schenk’s historical staging, will be running at the Met from Friday 4 March.
  • Dining in & out: Articles & Reviews

    Italia, Europe’s Rice Paddy

    Dino Borri(February 26, 2016)
    Six out of ten people in the world subsist on rice; after wheat, it’s the most consumed grain, providing more than half the world’s population with over 50% of its calories. Nearly all rice production—94%—is concentrated in the Far East, and a good 8,000 varieties are known and grouped by grain length.
  • Facts & Stories

    Forget Silicon Valley, Come to New York City!

    Letizia Airos(February 26, 2016)
    When we sat down with Alessandro Piol, the Italian venture capitalist based in new york who has 30 years of experience in the field of technology, he opened up about how his father— in Italy, a pioneer in the sector—taught him to love his work. He also explained how he chooses projects to finance and why New York presents even greater prospects than Silicon Valley. And he concluded with a little “message in a bottle” for young Italians looking to come to the City to develop an idea.
  • Art & Culture

    The Truth Behind Appearances

    Mila Tenaglia(February 25, 2016)
    He started out as an Alpine guide in the vast stretch of mountains in Veneto and Trentino. Today he lives in New York where he works with a scalpel on paper. Marco Gallotta is an original artist who loves exploring the rich and complex relationship between man and nature, carving out the truth hiding behind appearances.
  • Life & People

    Shape & Color @ the New York Fashion Week

    Camilla Santinelli(February 18, 2016)
    Still in the “fashion show-mood” made of runways, spotlights, clothes and accessories of every shape and color, the New York Fashion Week is running out, revealing the fall/winter 2016-2017 collections by major fashion designers, as well as previews of next season’s coolest trends.
  • Art & Culture

    Jhumpa Lahiri, Vestal of the Italian Language. When Books and Literature Save Your Life

    Mila Tenaglia(February 17, 2016)
    The tale of a boundless love for the Italian language, of the irrational need and the wish to dive into the tones and colors of a culture that is not your own. “In other words,” the latest book by the Bengalese writer and Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri, was presented at the Italian Cultural Institute. During a conversation with the Institute's Director Giorgio Van Straten and renown translator Ann Goldstein, Jhumpa Lahiri recounted her interior and artistic journey when “books and literature save your life.” It was like leaping into an unexpectedly extraordinary journal.
  • Op-Eds

    Collision Course: Civil Unions Demo vs. Family Day

    Judith Harris(January 26, 2016)
    Among the the European Union's 28 members, all but Italy and a handful of East European countries do not yet recognize civil unions, and the EU has been prodding Italy toward taking action. This Thursday the Italian Parliament begins debate on a divisive bill that would make civil unions fully legal, over Catholic opposition.
  • Op-Eds

    Reflections on “Giorno della Memoria”

    Alessandro Cassin, Natalia Indrimi(January 19, 2016)
    On January 27, the “Giorno Della Memoria” (or Holocaust Memorial Day), will be celebrated in Italy for the 15th year, perhaps enough to make a provisional assessment and some reflections. Meanwhile in New York City, a civil ceremony will take place outdoors, in front of the Italian Consulate. Starting in the morning and extending into the day, we will read the names of each one of the roughly 9,000 Jews deported from Italy and the Italian occupied areas.

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