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May 27, 2008
The Garden of Earthly Delights in Fresno
Joseph Sciorra
Baldassare Forestiere's "Underground Gardens," Fresno, 2008.
A Brief Visit to California’s Subterranean Marvel, Baldassare Forestiere’s “Underground Gardens.”
May 2, 2008
Holy Land USA, a Religious Vision in Ruins
Joseph Sciorra
Holy Land USA, Waterbury, CT, 2005.
During the 1960s and 1970s, 40,000 people visited Waterbury, CT annually to pray at Holy Land USA, a Catholic theme park created by John Greco. Now it lies in ruins.
March 30, 2008
Gino Vitale, Brooklyn developer and shrine builder.
Joseph Sciorra
Gino Vitale, with one of his Red Hook shrine buildings in the background, March 24, 2008.
Brooklyn developer Gino Vitale adapts the centuries old edicole sacre (devotional shrines) to his newly constructed buildings.
March 19, 2008
St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style
Joseph Sciorra
Antonietta Vitucci's St. Joseph's altar, March 18, 2008.
Celebrating St. Joseph in Brooklyn and some thoughts on lived religion.
August 28, 2008
Lace in the Crystal City
Joseph Sciorra
The exhibition “Lace, the Spaces Between,” Corning, New York.
An exhibition presents women’s domestic needlework in Corning, New York.
December 23, 2008
An Epic of Mediterranean Culture
Joe Milone and his Exhibited Shoe Shine Stand, 1942.
Sixty-six years ago, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a Sicilian-American bootblack’s decorated shoeshine kit, contributing to the museum director’s eventual dismissal.
September 28, 2008
Backyard Figs from Brooklyn
Joseph Sciorra
Figs
In which this blogger says nothing more profound than he really, really likes figs.
February 23, 2010
Ricordando Vincenzo Ancona
Martha Cooper
Vincenzo Ancona, Castel del Golfo Social Club, Brooklyn, 1987.
Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.
June 1, 2010
Building Community, the Brooklyn Way
Joseph Sciorra
KAVES, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, April 14, 2010.
Meet KAVES, band leader, tattoo artist, community activist.
February 22, 2011
Craftsmanship Documented
The Metropolitan Musuem of Art
Mandolins (detail), New York, circa 1900, crafted by Angelo Mannello (1858-1922).
Italian Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
May 5, 2011
Talking Folklore
Over the next several months, I will be presenting the book Italian Folk in venues throughout the New York metropolitan area.
October 20, 2011
A Ph.D. in Basket Weaving
Folklorist Joseph Sciorra, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1996), holding Italian-American immigrant Vincenzo Ancona’s Sicilian-style basket made in Castellammare del Golfo (Trapani), Sicily in 1985.
Italian-American anti-intellectualism rears its ugly little head again.
December 25, 2007
Gramsci’s Presepio
Joseph Sciorra
Underground Nativity, 2007.
The domestic presepio, an example of living folklore.
February 2, 2013
Representing Cowboy Life, Italian/American Style
Chris Moran/Nevada Commission on Tourism
The exhibition “Italian Buckaroos: Old World & New World”
February 13, 2013
Visiting Italian-American Ranchers in the West
Joseph Sciorra
Tomera Ranch, Elko county, Nevada, 2013.
Italian-American folklife.
October 17, 2012
The Decorated Flowerpots of Brooklyn
Joseph Sciorra
Decorated planter, 1601 81st Street, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, 2012.
Looking (again) at a little known Italian-American folk art.
May 24, 2013
Flatlands Flowerpot Find
Joseph Sciorra
1293 and 1297 East 52nd Street, off Avenue J, Flatlands, Brooklyn.
More on the continuing saga of the mysterious planters.
June 14, 2013
Variations on a Theme
Joseph Sciorra
Decorated planter, 1471 East 31st Street, Flatlands, Brooklyn.
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of Brooklyn’s Decorated Planters
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