Giovanni Umicini pays tribute to Padua, his adopted city, with a big photography exhibition. ‘Per Padova’ is open October 7 to January 13, 2008, at the Civic Museum on Piazza del Santo, Padua, presented by the City of Padua in collaboration with the National Center of Photography.

A meticulously rendered facsimile of Veronese’s painting “The Wedding at Cana” is back after 210 years of absence at the Palladian Refectory at the old Benedictine monastery on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

Our journey across the American music scene continues with an alternative rock icon, the sulfurous Lou Reed, an all-round artist who made ambiguity his banner, and urban alienation his way of life. Unabashed. Calling out from the wild side.

With Exit Ghost, Philip Roth’s new book (soon out in its Italian translation, published by Einaudi), the author of last year’s Everyman provides an X-Ray scan of a man at the end of the line of his manliness and authorship. Roth’s alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, plays dice with life. And shoots his last bullets, under the sheets and between the lines.

Born a hundred years ago in Italy, Leo Castelli had an extraordinary influence on contemporary art and left his indelible mark on 20th century New York.

Nell’Arca dell’ex Chiesa di San Marco a Vercelli sono esposte, per la prima volta insieme, le opere della collezione veneziana di Peggy Guggenheim e di quella newyorkese dello zio Solomon R. Guggenheim. Un viaggio tra le immagini-simbolo del Surrealismo.

“New York is not a world capital. New York is part of a growing set of global networks that connect cities.” American sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen explains to NYCVE her critical view of the main U.S. “Global City.”