- FEBRUARY 2018 -
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Let’s Eat Italian
New York Mercato Restaurant
by Epicuro The taste of burrata and tiella brings back memories of Puglia May 2011
New York La Masseria Restaurant
by Epicuro Pino Coladonato, chef from Mola, has brought authentic Apulian cooking to the heart of Manhattan April 2011Success Stories
Mario Pace From Gravina in Puglia to Hollywood When the American dream speaks Apulian
by Giovanni De Benedictis Matte painter and environment & texture artist, he has worked on the making of the film The Jungle Book, which has won the Oscar for visual effects. “I’m happy to be a man between two worlds because I appreciate both Italian and American culture” May 2017Islands
Not the Hawaii you expect People
Madeleine Gehrig's lens is trained once more on Maui, one of the loveliest of the Hawaiian islands. This time it is focussed on the inhabitants, on whom the costumes, headgear, tattoos and necklaces, rather than simply of folklore, speak of a sort of harmony with the luxuriant wild nature that surrounds them April 2012
Not the Hawaii you expect Flowers
It’s a voyage into color and beauty that Madeleine Gehrig’s objective enables us to make as she points it at the wonderful flowers of Hawaii.Leaves and plants too for graphic images of great harmony.
A true paradise for lovers of botany March 2012
Not the Hawaii you expect Landscapes
It’s the first feature of an extraordinary trilogy of images by Madeleine Gehrig.It is testimony to the passion that the Swiss artist dedicates to her photographic research on the islands that more than any other linger in the collective imagination.
No long beaches and calm seas but unusual snaps: volcanoes, waterfalls, crops, a graveyard, a church... Plus some small animals that look as if they are enjoying the beauty of the nature that surrounds them and the tails of the great whales seen out at sea, where the waters are deep February 2012
Jazz
Call it Jazz or BAM but “the capital” is still New York
by Ugo Sbisà In the latest book by Nicola Gaeta, physician, music critic and jazz expert from Bari, a very special journal of a month in the Big Apple.His goal: show us “jazz today in New York” through interviews and roaming around the jazz temples April 2014
Exhibitions
From Massachusetts to Italy… in search of the soul of the nativity scene
by Sarah Stanbury and Margot Balboni Three years in Italy – stopping off in Rome, Naples, Lecce and Matera – to study and take photos of nativity scenes.Scholar Stanbury and artist Balboni tell Bridge Puglia USA about their experience, which culminated in an exhibit at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester September 2014
“Amerigo’s America”
by Tiziano Thomas Dossena An interesting exhibition dedicated to Vespucci, 500 years after his death, has been inaugurated in New York and will then go to Florence and Tokyo.It is organized by the Florentines Around the World Association and the European School of Economics in Florence March 2012
History
Hannibal Library
by Nino VinellaChairman of the Comitato Italiano Pro Canne della Battaglia Thanks to the immense work carried out by scholar Yozan Dirk Mosig, the biggest library in the world dedicated to the Carthaginian leader who, in the third century B.C., defeated the Romans at Canne, in Puglia, has been set up at the University of Kearney, in Nebraska. A precious contribution to the recognition of the importance of the extraordinary archaeological site at Canne.
Mosig’s studies create a new image of Hannibal which goes well beyond his genius for military strategy January 2014
Why is America called “America”?
by Bianca Tragni In a late 16th century atlas, conserved in a museum at Sélestat, a small town in Alsace near Strasbourg, the New World is “christened” for the first time as “America”.Columbus discovered those territories but it was Amerigo Vespucci who was the first to maintain that it was a new continent, and not the Indies. March 2012
Art
New York’s Metropolitan Museum recognises that the “Gran Vaso” comes from Polignano a Mare
The Museum has agreed to the request made by Giuseppe Maiellaro, author of a book that proves the Apulian origin of the precious urn dated 300 B.C. July 2015
Santi Visalli The beauty of America in 21 snaps
by Nancy Clare Caponi In Santa Barbara, in California, a personal exhibition by the Sicilian-American artist on the urban landscape of the most important cities in the U.S.A.The magnificent structures by architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier “animated” by their combination with natural elements.
Only twenty minutes a day to capture the special light of twilight November 2013
Maia’s sails
by Pietro Marino From New York to Australia, the “futuristic” project by Maia Marinelli, a young artist from Bari, is a “kinetic sculpture” that has been selected for “Sculpture by the Sea”, an international art exhibition held in March on Perth’s beaches April 2013
Maurizio Cattelan’s (fulfilled) American dream
by Pietro Marino “All” at the Guggenheim in New York; an exhibition wholly dedicated to his works.Provocation and irony for an extraordinary interpretation of the meaning of life December 2011
Manlio Capaldi From Bari to New York to hold the bunker of the Beat Generation
by Paola Marino The Apulian artist and university lecturer has been granted the privilege of producing a work inside the apartment in Manhattan that used to belong to William Burroughs, on whose death it was acquired by the Italian American poet John Giorno. Burrough’s domestic world revealed by means of lighting and special effects November 2011
A New York story How the Charging Bull “chose” Wall Street
by Tiziano Thomas Dossena One December morning, in 1989, Sicilian artist Arturo Di Modica placed it furtively in front of the Stock Exchange.Nowadays it is one of the city’s main attractions, a real mascot for the brokers June 2011
Norman Rockwell Once upon a time there was the American dream…
by Tiziano Thomas Dossena The artist’s paintings on display in New York next to the photos from which they were taken. The photographic sets were mounted with impeccable attention to the details.His extraordinary capacity to render the atmosphere of an epoch. His commitment to civil rights behind an apparent naivety April 2011
Apulian Americans
Van Westerhout Cittadini Molesi Cultural and Social Club The Apulian outpost in Brooklyn
by Christina Figueroa Set up in 1960 on the initiative of some very young immigrants from Mola, the club has its headquarters in a well-known district of Brooklyn.The members continue to keep up the old traditions of their homeland.
But it is not easy to involve the young people... January 2013
Leonardo Campanile From Mola di Bari to New York to accomplish an “idea”
by Flavia Pankiewicz So many aims achieved by the volcanic editor of the magazine for Italian Americans.He left Puglia at the age of 18.
From “Miss Puglia” to organising activities to re-launch the figure of the great composer from Mola, Niccolò van Westerhout, and recently also a publishing company April 2011