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The Island of Roses

Los Corassones Avlan 148 W. 4th Street, New York City

Film screening and conversation: The Island of Roses, Tragedy in Paradise, by Rebecca Samonà. 2008/Italy, 56 min., documentary, in Italian with English subtitles Written and directed by Rebecca Samonà. Produced by L’Altravista and Rebecca Samonà. Post-screening conversation with Erminia and Gloria Licitri. Pregnant with her second child, Rebecca Samonà goes to the island of Rhodes to research family stories, accompanied by her mother…

Competing Truths: Art and the Objects of History after the Council of Trent

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

This is a two-day symposium to be jointly held at the Italian Academy and The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library on November 15 and 16. The event will bring together scholars and museum professionals in order to investigate how Italian art helped to formulate competing truths in the long aftermath of the Council of Trent, and how the…

Terra Matta

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

In Scena! Fall presents Presented by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Fall Edition Terra Matta Based on the diaries of Vincenzo Rabito Adapted and interpreted by Stefano Panzeri Terra Matta is adapted from the extraordinary autobiography of a Sicilian laborer at the beginning of the century, written between 1968 and 1975 on an old Olivetti. It is a monumental work: 1027…

Teaching and Thinking the Bauhaus after 1989: Angela Zumpe’s Time in Dessau

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a screening of  Things to Come, a film project on László, Lucia, and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy by DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU Angela Zumpe. The screening will be followed by a talk about Angela Zumpe's latest book, I Am Taking the Ghosts with Me…, which focuses on her personal experience with the Bauhaus and reflects on…

Blarney Star: Siobhán, and Willie Kelly

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City

Siobhán grew up in a musical family in County Clare. Her husband Willie, though born in New Jersey, is very much on the same musical wavelength, sharing Siobhán’s devotion to the old-time style of east Clare and east Galway.