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The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program, today announced the completion of "Bettina" Art Installation. Created by artist Jennifer Cecere under the Urban Art Program's partners track, the piece is composed of an 8-foot vinyl mesh doily, which will hang outside the terminal's Ramp E for up to 11 months. Cecere's work is inspired from collecting lace and doilies from auctions and yard sales as a child in rural Indiana. After working with found lace and doilies for years in her studio, Cecere began incorporating them into large-scale outdoor works, while still retaining the charm of a handmade look. To learn more about the artist please click here Please call for further information.

A conversation with Francesco Cassata (University of Genoa) which will analyze the development of eugenics in Italy, from the First International Congress of Eugenics in London (1912) to the establishment of medical genetics during the 1950s.

Dr. Cassata will expose the complex interaction between eugenics and "racial science" during Fascism, focusing in particular on the definition of an alternative model of neo-Lamarckian, pronatalist and Catholic eugenics: the so-called "Latin" eugenics. Starting with the institutionalization of Italian eugenics in the early 1900's, Cassata will trace the participation of the Italian scientific community in defining biological racism and a skewed notion of "fitness" that became central to the fascist regime's juridical, social and ideological system.

The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program, today announced the completion of "Bettina" Art Installation. Created by artist Jennifer Cecere under the Urban Art Program's partners track, the piece is composed of an 8-foot vinyl mesh doily, which will hang outside the terminal's Ramp E for up to 11 months. Cecere's work is inspired from collecting lace and doilies from auctions and yard sales as a child in rural Indiana. After working with found lace and doilies for years in her studio, Cecere began incorporating them into large-scale outdoor works, while still retaining the charm of a handmade look. To learn more about the artist please click here Please call for further information.

Presented in cooperation with the Primo Levi Center and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York

The DP camps of Cinecittà (World Premiere)(Italian w/Eglish subtitles)

A documentary by Marco Bertozzi, based on research by Noa Steimatsky (University of Chicago).

The conversion of Cinecittà, one of Europe's largest movie studios, into a refugee camp seems an odd footnote to the chronicles of Italian cinema. However, its magnitude, the duration of its existence, and the broader social and political forces that governed its development, define it as a startling phenomenon and a prime allegorical tableau of its time. The existence of the camp colors our vision of postwar Italian film history, and, in particular, of Neorealism.

Post-screening discussion with the authors

The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program, today announced the completion of "Bettina" Art Installation. Created by artist Jennifer Cecere under the Urban Art Program's partners track, the piece is composed of an 8-foot vinyl mesh doily, which will hang outside the terminal's Ramp E for up to 11 months. Cecere's work is inspired from collecting lace and doilies from auctions and yard sales as a child in rural Indiana. After working with found lace and doilies for years in her studio, Cecere began incorporating them into large-scale outdoor works, while still retaining the charm of a handmade look. To learn more about the artist please click here Please call for further information.

The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program, today announced the completion of "Bettina" Art Installation. Created by artist Jennifer Cecere under the Urban Art Program's partners track, the piece is composed of an 8-foot vinyl mesh doily, which will hang outside the terminal's Ramp E for up to 11 months. Cecere's work is inspired from collecting lace and doilies from auctions and yard sales as a child in rural Indiana. After working with found lace and doilies for years in her studio, Cecere began incorporating them into large-scale outdoor works, while still retaining the charm of a handmade look. To learn more about the artist please click here Please call for further information.