Events

Hauser and Wirth: Private Tour of Piero Manzoni exhibition, “Piero Manzoni Lines Materials of His Time”.

The Frick Collection: Private Tour of Giovanni Battista Moroni, “Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture”.

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo: Neorealismo, Guided Private Tour & Aperitivo

Italian Cultural Institute: Private Tour of Young Italians art exhibition.

Cocktail Party at Felidia, with Executive Chef Fortunato Nicotra.

Please join the Young Friends of FAI for a very special tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We’ve joined forces with “Museum Hack” and we will show you the Met as you’ve never seen it before! We’ll enjoy some complimentary wine at the Museum Café and make our way through the museum, where we’ll take a fresh look at some of the world’s most beautiful art (with a special focus on Italy) This event is open exclusively to members of the Young Friends of FAI.

The Young Friends off FAI invites it’s members for a private, after-hours tour of Renaissance art and a viewing of the Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Young Friends of FAI was delighted to host a private tour of the New York Times acclaimed Alberto Savinio exhibit at the Center for Italian Modern Art. Our tour was followed by a delicious aperitivo.

The Young Friends of FAI met at the Morgan Library for a private viewing of “Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection”. This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world’s finest private collections containing over 400 sheets. Works by major masters from the Renaissance to the modern era were on view, including Mantegna, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Piranesi, Watteau, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Turner, Daumier, Redon, Degas, Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock. We also were able to visit “Views of Rome and Naples: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection”. Views of Rome and Naples is the fifth exhibition in a series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare. In these oils, painters captured the grandiosity of Rome’s classical ruins and the sublime natural beauty of Naples, with its famous view of Mount Vesuvius.

The Young Friends of FAI joined the Center for Italian Modern Art for an Italian style aperitivo to celebrate the newly published Bolted Book facsimile – the first exact copy of Fortunato Depero’s 1927 masterpiece of graphic design and bookmaking. Fortunato Depero (March 30, 1892 – November 29, 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer. In collaboration with the Center for Italian Modern Art, the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and Designers & Books.