From November 10 to 13 NICE is in New York at the Anthology Film Archives on 2nd Avenue. Six NY film premieres will be featured – including Lucchetti’s La nostra vita and Molaioli’s Il gioiellino. The showings will be followed by a Q and A session with the films’ directors. For the full program call Maya at 617-820-9284.
Year: 2011 (page 3 of 11)
The Palazzo Quirinale, currently the official residence of the President of Italy, was built in 1583 as a papal residence and after 1871 was used as the royal residence of the kings of Italy. In 1655 the painter Pietro da Cortona received a commission from Pope Alexander VII to redecorate a wing of the palace. The resulting grand rooms – airy, light-filled and covered with frescoes – were a model for other European palaces. However in 1812, under Napoleon, the rooms were reconfigured and redecorated, covering Pietro’s work. In more recent years, during updating of the electrical system, Pietro’s amazingly well-preserved frescoes were re-discovered. Starting October 16th and following a restoration, the Galleria di Alessandro VII will be added to the areas open to the public on Sundays.
Milano’s Palazzo Reale is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the 17th Century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Until recently Gentileschi was better-known for her life story than as a prolific and talented painter. The daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi, Artemisia was raped by a colleague of her father’s and later went through a humiliating rape trial. The show gathers together 52 of her paintings, many of them graphic and bloody depictions of biblical and mythological scenes. The show also focuses on this painter’s life: included are documents pertaining to the trial and a collection of eloquent, if ungrammatical, love letters that Artemisia wrote to a Florentine nobleman. These biographical elements humanize the painter and put her work into context.
From September 13 to 16 Barilla, the pasta company, is sponsoring an Italian food festival that will take place in a temporary structure in Central Park. There will be cooking demonstrations and food to sample. Tickets are $5 and the proceeds will be donated to the Food Bank for New York City. Barilla is also sponsoring Andrea Bocelli’s Sept. 15 concert in the Park.
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