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Ierimonti Gallery opens its new location in New York presenting an overview of the extensive and prolific Italian art panorama of the 1970s and the 1980s.While politics and economics underwent a profound transformation and culture transitioned from progressive modernism to the postmodernist weak thought, Italian art at the time elaborated old and new themes using the most disparate materials. Artists shifted from using industrial materials such as iron, coal, wood bundles, neon, mirrors, terracotta-common in Arte Povera (Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Alighiero Boetti, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini)-to dismantling installations and favoring paint and color-popular among Transavanguardia, Anacronisti and Nuovi Nuovi.

 

Find it ITALY EARLY AND LATE An exhibition of paintings by Peter Ruta The artist in conversation with Ara Merjian (NYU)   Peter Ruta is known in the US for his mature work: New York cityscapes and rugged western landscapes, but from 1947 to 1962, moving between Rome Venice Naples and Positano he produced a steady stream of small, intimate paintings - buttoned up portraits, frugal still life, sideways street views - that powerfully evoke the long gone life of postwar Italy. Italian and German museums have rediscovered this work lately, but this is New York's first chance in half a century to see Ruta's eerily quiet, almost metaphysical early paintings, along with a group of large, exuberant 21st century Italian landscapes completed in just the last three years, by this vital artist, who turns 97 in February. Ruta will be present at the opening to reminisce wih NYU Art History professor Ara Merjian about his deep connection with Italy and Italian artists of his generation.

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In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia.

The works take as raw material the artist's travel experiences around the world. Travel and place, however, are not to be taken literally.

They are metaphors for an artistic exploration around the concepts of silence, memory, emotion and inner journey. 

"Photography is a slice of time and in the moment I shoot a photo I am living in the present but I am also aware that I am creating a memory"

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A "rigor" that forces space to become a thing, rather than for things to fill space.

There is an intellectual depth and philosophical conception, and it could be argued that this is a new beginning, which is inspired by the rigor of the forms and the relationship with space, hence Rigorism.

Choices and dictates do not preclude, however, the explosion of the ego of the artist. There is no trace of seriality, cold running or stiffness, but makes the sensitivities of the different artists and their personalities stand out immediately.

The canvas is bent and shaped on a precise idea, which manifests itself in different ways depending on the hand that has created it: the charm of the artists chosen is just that, to find out how each personality behind the canvas, behind the protrusions and recesses, behind the color or no color, and how each of them finds himself and his emotions.

The Galleria Arte Centro Lattuada has selected seventeen artists, that have decided to take on a challenge that would be proposed with the stamp of a more radical rigor.

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At first for his own pleasure and now for a broader audience, the iconic Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce has been utilizing his signature urethane resin with a new landscape in mind. This work, a natural extension of his interest in innovation and individuality, consists of miniature sculptures designed for the body. Simply titled for her, this new collection consists of necklaces, bracelets, rings, and brooches. 

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Drawing on extensive research about the use of color in antiquity, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971) has collaborated with a team of archaeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to paint five ancient Roman busts in the manner in which they would originally have been decorated. While white marble remains the quintessential material of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, extensive research has confirmed that ancient sculpture was painted in a vivid palette of yellows, blues, reds and greens. Dating from the first and second centuries A.D., Vezzoli's Roman Imperial busts restore to contemporary imagination the decorated surfaces that have faded away over nearly two thousand years.

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This fall, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present a major installation of sculpture, drawing, and experimental photography by acclaimed modernist Medardo Rosso, revealing the masterful range of an artist known chiefly for his three-dimensional work. Anchored by a major loan from the Museo Medardo Rosso in Barzio, Italy, the presentation explores the broad range of materials-from gesso, wax, and bronze, to photography and drawing-in which Rosso worked. The installation marks the first time that a comprehensive group of drawings by Rosso will be on view together. "Medardo Rosso" will be the second presentation mounted by the foundation. CIMA will concurrently present two works by the American artist Cy Twombly, including the painting Untitled (New York City), 1956, and the work-on-paper Idilion, 1976. Born in the U.S., Twombly spent much of his life in Rome and frequently drew inspiration from classical mythology and the Italian Renaissance. His paintings and drawings often feature large-scale, freely made, calligraphic marks-emotive gestures that will foster a dynamic dialogue when presented alongside the drawings of Rosso.

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Following the February 12-15 performances of ROCCO at the Kasser Theatre, choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten will be speaking about their inspiration for the creation of ROCCO, and the dancers of ICKamsterdam will be doing a live demonstration. This program is an occasion for exploring the relationship between Luchino Visconti's operatic 1960's film "Rocco and His Brothers" and Greco and Scholten's intensely physical choreography for their dance show ROCCO, which takes both thematic and aesthetic inspiration from the film.

Introduction: Jed Wheeler (ACP/Kasser Theatre)  Moderator: Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair) Speakers: Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten (Choreographers of ROCCO), and Dereck Cayla (Dancer for ICKamsterdam)

For more information, please see the event page or contact inserra@mail.montclair.edu.  

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Ierimonti Gallery opens its new location in New York presenting an overview of the extensive and prolific Italian art panorama of the 1970s and the 1980s.While politics and economics underwent a profound transformation and culture transitioned from progressive modernism to the postmodernist weak thought, Italian art at the time elaborated old and new themes using the most disparate materials. Artists shifted from using industrial materials such as iron, coal, wood bundles, neon, mirrors, terracotta-common in Arte Povera (Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Alighiero Boetti, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini)-to dismantling installations and favoring paint and color-popular among Transavanguardia, Anacronisti and Nuovi Nuovi.

 

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It�'s 1964 Brooklyn and Rocco Lazarra is returning home to face his family after having suffered a nervous breakdown. His fiery wife, Filumena, longs for her native Sicily, while their two sons hope for a better life. As secrets are revealed, everyone is forced to re-examine their relationships, fears and dreams in this explosive family drama. Don�'t miss this new version of Pintauro�'s play starring Robert Cuccioli and Angelina Fiordellisi, and directed by Valentina Fratti.

 

Find it ITALY EARLY AND LATE An exhibition of paintings by Peter Ruta The artist in conversation with Ara Merjian (NYU)   Peter Ruta is known in the US for his mature work: New York cityscapes and rugged western landscapes, but from 1947 to 1962, moving between Rome Venice Naples and Positano he produced a steady stream of small, intimate paintings - buttoned up portraits, frugal still life, sideways street views - that powerfully evoke the long gone life of postwar Italy. Italian and German museums have rediscovered this work lately, but this is New York's first chance in half a century to see Ruta's eerily quiet, almost metaphysical early paintings, along with a group of large, exuberant 21st century Italian landscapes completed in just the last three years, by this vital artist, who turns 97 in February. Ruta will be present at the opening to reminisce wih NYU Art History professor Ara Merjian about his deep connection with Italy and Italian artists of his generation.

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In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia.

The works take as raw material the artist's travel experiences around the world. Travel and place, however, are not to be taken literally.

They are metaphors for an artistic exploration around the concepts of silence, memory, emotion and inner journey. 

"Photography is a slice of time and in the moment I shoot a photo I am living in the present but I am also aware that I am creating a memory"

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A "rigor" that forces space to become a thing, rather than for things to fill space.

There is an intellectual depth and philosophical conception, and it could be argued that this is a new beginning, which is inspired by the rigor of the forms and the relationship with space, hence Rigorism.

Choices and dictates do not preclude, however, the explosion of the ego of the artist. There is no trace of seriality, cold running or stiffness, but makes the sensitivities of the different artists and their personalities stand out immediately.

The canvas is bent and shaped on a precise idea, which manifests itself in different ways depending on the hand that has created it: the charm of the artists chosen is just that, to find out how each personality behind the canvas, behind the protrusions and recesses, behind the color or no color, and how each of them finds himself and his emotions.

The Galleria Arte Centro Lattuada has selected seventeen artists, that have decided to take on a challenge that would be proposed with the stamp of a more radical rigor.

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At first for his own pleasure and now for a broader audience, the iconic Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce has been utilizing his signature urethane resin with a new landscape in mind. This work, a natural extension of his interest in innovation and individuality, consists of miniature sculptures designed for the body. Simply titled for her, this new collection consists of necklaces, bracelets, rings, and brooches. 

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This fall, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present a major installation of sculpture, drawing, and experimental photography by acclaimed modernist Medardo Rosso, revealing the masterful range of an artist known chiefly for his three-dimensional work. Anchored by a major loan from the Museo Medardo Rosso in Barzio, Italy, the presentation explores the broad range of materials-from gesso, wax, and bronze, to photography and drawing-in which Rosso worked. The installation marks the first time that a comprehensive group of drawings by Rosso will be on view together. "Medardo Rosso" will be the second presentation mounted by the foundation. CIMA will concurrently present two works by the American artist Cy Twombly, including the painting Untitled (New York City), 1956, and the work-on-paper Idilion, 1976. Born in the U.S., Twombly spent much of his life in Rome and frequently drew inspiration from classical mythology and the Italian Renaissance. His paintings and drawings often feature large-scale, freely made, calligraphic marks-emotive gestures that will foster a dynamic dialogue when presented alongside the drawings of Rosso.

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Brad Garton, Director of the Columbia University Computer Music Center, has assisted in the establishment and development of a number of computer music studios throughout the world, and is an active contributor to the greater community of computer musicians/researchers, formerly serving on the Board of Directors of the International Computer Music Association as editor (with Robert Rowe) of the ICMA newsletter and as artistic director/co-organizer of several high-profile festivals and conferences of new computer music.

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Chants, Boxers, Wounds is an evening where Gabriele Tinti, the Italian writer, will read his poetry on boxing and will present, Poetry Films, based on his text.

Immediately following, there will be a discussion with Edoardo Ballerini (an actor of Italian origin and lead actor The Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, I Shot Andy Warhol and reader of the poem "Forgive Me" for Gabriele Tinti), the directors Michele Civetta and Robert Conticelli (that filmed some of the movies mentioned), the translator Nicholas Benson (translator of Italian classics such as, Palazzeschi, Foscolo, Bertolucci, Mario Luzi, Caproni Antonia Pozzi. For his work of translation on L�'Incendario of Palazzeschi, Benson received the prestigious NEA Translation Fellowship).

Also present at the event will be Paulie Malignaggi (former Welterweight World Champion and commentator on the Showtime Network), Vito Antuofermo (former Middleweight World Champion and actor) and Vinny Maddalone (Italian American boxer).

Milo de Angelis says: "Finally a poet with athletic gestures... it feels like being in the middle of a boxing ring"

Gabriele Tinti, an Italian poet and writer, has published New York Shots (Allemandi&C., 2011), The Way of the Cross (Allemandi&C., 2012), both collaborations with the actor Michael Imperioli, and All Over (Mimesis Edizioni, 2013). His books have been presented in many museums, including the Queens Museum of Art and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in NYC, the Triennale in Milan, the MACRO in Rome, and the Boston Center for the Arts, and have been acquired for the collections of major international poetry centers, such as Poets House of NYC, the Poetry Center of Tucson, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, The Poetry Collection, Buffalo, and the Poetry Library of the South Bank Centre in London. His poems have been performed by actors like Michael Imperioli, Burt Young, Alessandro Haber, and Franco Nero.

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BOSI Contemporary is pleased to present a two-person show featuring sculptures by Tao Kulczycki and the two new series of paintings by Ian Swanson, never before exhibited in New York. Both artists' works use different techniques and transform their materials into investigations of our humanity. While Tao Kulczycki uses a various assortment of altered objects in order to semi-embody his sculptures with symbols, Ian Swanson's paintings use direct and simple tools of representation to engage the viewer to interpret their inner intensity. The two artists use representation, objects and images we might immediately recognize, and combine them to create a feeling of unfamiliarity.   

Tao Kulczycki will be presenting a new series of aggregates; these fabricated ready-mades lend themselves towards a more abstract form where the object per se is transfigured in a way that is not immediately recognizable. The peculiarity of their assembly and modification find a stability not only symbolically but literally where the sculptures seem to balance. Often using a contrasting approach to materials, Kulczycki finds equilibrium between the natural and the fabricated/technological.

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Ierimonti Gallery opens its new location in New York presenting an overview of the extensive and prolific Italian art panorama of the 1970s and the 1980s.While politics and economics underwent a profound transformation and culture transitioned from progressive modernism to the postmodernist weak thought, Italian art at the time elaborated old and new themes using the most disparate materials. Artists shifted from using industrial materials such as iron, coal, wood bundles, neon, mirrors, terracotta-common in Arte Povera (Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Alighiero Boetti, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini)-to dismantling installations and favoring paint and color-popular among Transavanguardia, Anacronisti and Nuovi Nuovi.

 

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It�'s 1964 Brooklyn and Rocco Lazarra is returning home to face his family after having suffered a nervous breakdown. His fiery wife, Filumena, longs for her native Sicily, while their two sons hope for a better life. As secrets are revealed, everyone is forced to re-examine their relationships, fears and dreams in this explosive family drama. Don�'t miss this new version of Pintauro�'s play starring Robert Cuccioli and Angelina Fiordellisi, and directed by Valentina Fratti.

 

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The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season will feature Italian mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona, who has thrilled audiences in starring roles at La Scala and in London, Paris, Turin and elsewhere. She is the prima donna of the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and will sing the bravura role of Malcolm with an all-star cast in the Met's new production of La Donna del Lago.

Member-only RSVP: 212-502-7944 RSVP deadline: 24 hours prior to event start. All seats will be released 10 minutes prior to scheduled start. (For all other inquiries please call 212-998-8739)   Adventures in Italian Opera, as all other events, is open to the general public, but members of the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò may reserve seats. Ten minutes before the event begins, all seats (including those that were reserved) will be available, first-come first-served, to anyone present.    In ENGLISH.

Find it ITALY EARLY AND LATE An exhibition of paintings by Peter Ruta The artist in conversation with Ara Merjian (NYU)   Peter Ruta is known in the US for his mature work: New York cityscapes and rugged western landscapes, but from 1947 to 1962, moving between Rome Venice Naples and Positano he produced a steady stream of small, intimate paintings - buttoned up portraits, frugal still life, sideways street views - that powerfully evoke the long gone life of postwar Italy. Italian and German museums have rediscovered this work lately, but this is New York's first chance in half a century to see Ruta's eerily quiet, almost metaphysical early paintings, along with a group of large, exuberant 21st century Italian landscapes completed in just the last three years, by this vital artist, who turns 97 in February. Ruta will be present at the opening to reminisce wih NYU Art History professor Ara Merjian about his deep connection with Italy and Italian artists of his generation.

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In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia.

The works take as raw material the artist's travel experiences around the world. Travel and place, however, are not to be taken literally.

They are metaphors for an artistic exploration around the concepts of silence, memory, emotion and inner journey. 

"Photography is a slice of time and in the moment I shoot a photo I am living in the present but I am also aware that I am creating a memory"

Find it

A "rigor" that forces space to become a thing, rather than for things to fill space.

There is an intellectual depth and philosophical conception, and it could be argued that this is a new beginning, which is inspired by the rigor of the forms and the relationship with space, hence Rigorism.

Choices and dictates do not preclude, however, the explosion of the ego of the artist. There is no trace of seriality, cold running or stiffness, but makes the sensitivities of the different artists and their personalities stand out immediately.

The canvas is bent and shaped on a precise idea, which manifests itself in different ways depending on the hand that has created it: the charm of the artists chosen is just that, to find out how each personality behind the canvas, behind the protrusions and recesses, behind the color or no color, and how each of them finds himself and his emotions.

The Galleria Arte Centro Lattuada has selected seventeen artists, that have decided to take on a challenge that would be proposed with the stamp of a more radical rigor.

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At first for his own pleasure and now for a broader audience, the iconic Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce has been utilizing his signature urethane resin with a new landscape in mind. This work, a natural extension of his interest in innovation and individuality, consists of miniature sculptures designed for the body. Simply titled for her, this new collection consists of necklaces, bracelets, rings, and brooches. 

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This fall, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present a major installation of sculpture, drawing, and experimental photography by acclaimed modernist Medardo Rosso, revealing the masterful range of an artist known chiefly for his three-dimensional work. Anchored by a major loan from the Museo Medardo Rosso in Barzio, Italy, the presentation explores the broad range of materials-from gesso, wax, and bronze, to photography and drawing-in which Rosso worked. The installation marks the first time that a comprehensive group of drawings by Rosso will be on view together. "Medardo Rosso" will be the second presentation mounted by the foundation. CIMA will concurrently present two works by the American artist Cy Twombly, including the painting Untitled (New York City), 1956, and the work-on-paper Idilion, 1976. Born in the U.S., Twombly spent much of his life in Rome and frequently drew inspiration from classical mythology and the Italian Renaissance. His paintings and drawings often feature large-scale, freely made, calligraphic marks-emotive gestures that will foster a dynamic dialogue when presented alongside the drawings of Rosso.

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BOSI Contemporary is pleased to present a two-person show featuring sculptures by Tao Kulczycki and the two new series of paintings by Ian Swanson, never before exhibited in New York. Both artists' works use different techniques and transform their materials into investigations of our humanity. While Tao Kulczycki uses a various assortment of altered objects in order to semi-embody his sculptures with symbols, Ian Swanson's paintings use direct and simple tools of representation to engage the viewer to interpret their inner intensity. The two artists use representation, objects and images we might immediately recognize, and combine them to create a feeling of unfamiliarity.   

Tao Kulczycki will be presenting a new series of aggregates; these fabricated ready-mades lend themselves towards a more abstract form where the object per se is transfigured in a way that is not immediately recognizable. The peculiarity of their assembly and modification find a stability not only symbolically but literally where the sculptures seem to balance. Often using a contrasting approach to materials, Kulczycki finds equilibrium between the natural and the fabricated/technological.

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Ierimonti Gallery opens its new location in New York presenting an overview of the extensive and prolific Italian art panorama of the 1970s and the 1980s.While politics and economics underwent a profound transformation and culture transitioned from progressive modernism to the postmodernist weak thought, Italian art at the time elaborated old and new themes using the most disparate materials. Artists shifted from using industrial materials such as iron, coal, wood bundles, neon, mirrors, terracotta-common in Arte Povera (Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Alighiero Boetti, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini)-to dismantling installations and favoring paint and color-popular among Transavanguardia, Anacronisti and Nuovi Nuovi.

 

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It�'s 1964 Brooklyn and Rocco Lazarra is returning home to face his family after having suffered a nervous breakdown. His fiery wife, Filumena, longs for her native Sicily, while their two sons hope for a better life. As secrets are revealed, everyone is forced to re-examine their relationships, fears and dreams in this explosive family drama. Don�'t miss this new version of Pintauro�'s play starring Robert Cuccioli and Angelina Fiordellisi, and directed by Valentina Fratti.

 

Find it ITALY EARLY AND LATE An exhibition of paintings by Peter Ruta The artist in conversation with Ara Merjian (NYU)   Peter Ruta is known in the US for his mature work: New York cityscapes and rugged western landscapes, but from 1947 to 1962, moving between Rome Venice Naples and Positano he produced a steady stream of small, intimate paintings - buttoned up portraits, frugal still life, sideways street views - that powerfully evoke the long gone life of postwar Italy. Italian and German museums have rediscovered this work lately, but this is New York's first chance in half a century to see Ruta's eerily quiet, almost metaphysical early paintings, along with a group of large, exuberant 21st century Italian landscapes completed in just the last three years, by this vital artist, who turns 97 in February. Ruta will be present at the opening to reminisce wih NYU Art History professor Ara Merjian about his deep connection with Italy and Italian artists of his generation.

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In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia.

The works take as raw material the artist's travel experiences around the world. Travel and place, however, are not to be taken literally.

They are metaphors for an artistic exploration around the concepts of silence, memory, emotion and inner journey. 

"Photography is a slice of time and in the moment I shoot a photo I am living in the present but I am also aware that I am creating a memory"

Find it

A "rigor" that forces space to become a thing, rather than for things to fill space.

There is an intellectual depth and philosophical conception, and it could be argued that this is a new beginning, which is inspired by the rigor of the forms and the relationship with space, hence Rigorism.

Choices and dictates do not preclude, however, the explosion of the ego of the artist. There is no trace of seriality, cold running or stiffness, but makes the sensitivities of the different artists and their personalities stand out immediately.

The canvas is bent and shaped on a precise idea, which manifests itself in different ways depending on the hand that has created it: the charm of the artists chosen is just that, to find out how each personality behind the canvas, behind the protrusions and recesses, behind the color or no color, and how each of them finds himself and his emotions.

The Galleria Arte Centro Lattuada has selected seventeen artists, that have decided to take on a challenge that would be proposed with the stamp of a more radical rigor.

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At first for his own pleasure and now for a broader audience, the iconic Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce has been utilizing his signature urethane resin with a new landscape in mind. This work, a natural extension of his interest in innovation and individuality, consists of miniature sculptures designed for the body. Simply titled for her, this new collection consists of necklaces, bracelets, rings, and brooches. 

Find it

Drawing on extensive research about the use of color in antiquity, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971) has collaborated with a team of archaeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to paint five ancient Roman busts in the manner in which they would originally have been decorated. While white marble remains the quintessential material of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, extensive research has confirmed that ancient sculpture was painted in a vivid palette of yellows, blues, reds and greens. Dating from the first and second centuries A.D., Vezzoli's Roman Imperial busts restore to contemporary imagination the decorated surfaces that have faded away over nearly two thousand years.

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This fall, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present a major installation of sculpture, drawing, and experimental photography by acclaimed modernist Medardo Rosso, revealing the masterful range of an artist known chiefly for his three-dimensional work. Anchored by a major loan from the Museo Medardo Rosso in Barzio, Italy, the presentation explores the broad range of materials-from gesso, wax, and bronze, to photography and drawing-in which Rosso worked. The installation marks the first time that a comprehensive group of drawings by Rosso will be on view together. "Medardo Rosso" will be the second presentation mounted by the foundation. CIMA will concurrently present two works by the American artist Cy Twombly, including the painting Untitled (New York City), 1956, and the work-on-paper Idilion, 1976. Born in the U.S., Twombly spent much of his life in Rome and frequently drew inspiration from classical mythology and the Italian Renaissance. His paintings and drawings often feature large-scale, freely made, calligraphic marks-emotive gestures that will foster a dynamic dialogue when presented alongside the drawings of Rosso.