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  • Filomena Maria Sardella and Luciano Testa
    Art & Culture

    Presepe is Art and Hope. We Met the "Mago delle Moschelle"

    A.B.(December 14, 2010)
    The exhibit "Nativity in the World/ from Naples to New York" opens up at the Italian Cultural Institute. "The presepe is something new based upon tradition, something new which can create work force today" says the curator -Filomena Maria Sardella- who also stresses the message of hope embedded in this show. For Giuseppe Reale, Director of Museo Arci,"in a city and land so affected by individualism and fragmentation, the presepe, as a choral activity, which can help the reconstruction". The masterpieces of contemporary presepio art will be, along with older ones, on view until January 18. We met Luciano Testa, Master Artisan of the Presepe for the last 25 years
  • "Dire Napoli al mondo"
    Facts & Stories

    “Telling Naples to the World”. Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe on His Imminent Visit to New York

    Ottorino Cappelli(December 11, 2010)
    The Cardinal of Naples will be in New York this coming January, where he will meet the Italian community, personalities of the cutural and artistic world, academics, scholars, men of faith and laymen alike. His journey is entitled “Dire Napoli” with a slogan: “Don’t shut the door to hope.” Among the most significant moments of Crescenzio Sepe’s stay in New York will be the meeting with Rabbi Schneier and the leaders of the Jewish community, a round table organized by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute on the problems of human migrations, and a conversation at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò on the representation of Naples in cinema and the media. The visit will be accompanied by a beautiful exhibition of Neapolitan crèche art, which will be inaugurated at the Italian Cultural Institute on Tuesday, December 14 (6:30pm). i-Italy—which will be the official press service for this journey—met Archibishop Sepe in Naples for an exclusive interview about what “telling Naples” to the world means.
  • Events: Reports

    41° Parallelo. Naples on the Big Screen

    Alice Bonvicini(November 30, 2010)
    Italian cinema between New York and Naples will be presented at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) and Lincoln Center. Also announced - by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini - an event in January during Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe's New York visit about Cinema and the communication of the Neapolitan image. Stay tuned
  • Life & People

    Personaggi: "Faticando" di misura in misura

    Chiara Zamin(January 14, 2008)
    Felice "Philip" Ferrante, nato poverissimoa Visciano, in provincia di Napoli, ha iniziato a cucire abiti da bambino per poi arrivare a New York a realizzare vestiti per alcuni tra gli uomini più potenti del mondo. Ecco la storia del capo sarto di Saks Fifth Avenue --
  • Facts & Stories

    Healthy Italy, but Naples poisoned by garbage

    Judith Harris(January 07, 2008)
    In a polite letter to the New York Times Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato pointed out that the Italian national health care system is ranked by the World Health Organization as second in the world. Amato has a good point. If Italy is potentially the second healthiest nation in Europe, however, Neapolitans have been left out...

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