Each year CIMA’s fellows select a favorite work from the exhibition and prepare a short video presentation. Enjoy these Giorgio Morandi videos!
Continue reading >>Farewell to Giorgio Morandi
Italian Art Blooms in New York City
CIMA’s mission to promote the appreciation of modern Italian art on the international stage reverberates louder than ever as New York City sees a proliferation of Italian modern and contemporary art this spring.
Continue reading >>A Q&A with the organizers of a 2014 Medardo Rosso symposium at CIMA
On October 30, 2014, the Center for Italian Modern Art held the first program of its Medardo Rosso season: a symposium exploring Rosso’s approach to serial sculpture, focused on the Bambino ebreo.
Continue reading >>Tacita Dean’s Still Life: The Artist in His Studio
Tacita Dean spoke with Massimiliano Gioni about her work, which is on view at CIMA as part of the Giorgio Morandi exhibition, in an event celebrating her new book, Buon Fresco. She currently has a large show at the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, until April 23.
Continue reading >>Munch and Expressionism on Show in New York
Spring Fellow Nicol Mocchi visits “Munch and Expressionism”, an exhibition at The Neue Galerie that explores the mutual influence and intense dialogue between Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and the generation of German-Austrian artists from the early 20th century.
Continue reading >>CIMA Travel Fellow Laura Moure Cecchini reports from the Wolfsonian
CIMA 2014 Travel Fellow Laura Moure Cecchini visits the Wolfsonian in Miami and explores its research library, which features rare books and periodicals, postcards, posters, and other ephemera.
Continue reading >>Luigi Ghirri: Impossible Landscapes at Matthew Marks Gallery
Luigi Ghirri, a land surveyor turned artist who was among the first in Italy to elevate color photography to the status of artistic expression is currently being shown at Matthew Marks.
Continue reading >>CIMA IS TWO!
The Center for Italian Modern Art recently celebrated the second anniversary of its opening to the public, with a special evening featuring a “culinary intervention” by Chef Turi Scalora and an in-depth-look at Giorgio Morandi’s double-sided painting, Cactus and Self-Portrait (1919/1917).
Continue reading >>Unlocking Morandi’s Mysteries at the New York Studio School
Last week the New York Studio School hosted members of the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) for an interesting talk on Giorgio Morandi. Laura Mattioli, the founder and president of CIMA, fascinated audience members with her memories about the artist and some personal anecdotes about the friendship between Morandi and her father, Gianni Mattioli, an important collector of modern art.
Continue reading >>On Stillness: Hammershøi at Scandinavia House
Painting Tranquility: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershøi from SMK is at the American Scandinavian Foundation until March 26, 2016.
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