Past Events
We're thrilled to present an evening with Olivia Harrison in conversation with Ashley Kahn about her new book Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George, marking the twentieth year since his passing.
Please note:
- This event is ticketed. Tickets will not be available at the door. GET TICKETS
- Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
- The signing line will only be open to those who have purchase a copy of the book from Rizzoli Bookstore.
The National Academy of Design presents a panel discussion with Donna Dennis, architectural sculptor and installation artist, to mark the publication of Donna Dennis: Poet in Three Dimensions.
PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
TASTE Live at Rizzoli launches with Eric Kim and Ali Slagle, who will discuss their spectacular cookbook debuts, what they're cooking these days, and what comes next. Book sales and a signing to follow. Hosted by Matt Rodbard and recorded live for The TASTE Podcast.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is open to the public. RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
Design luminary Vicente Wolf, master of a restrained, elegant, and global aesthetic, celebrates the launch of Creative Interior Solutions.
PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
Tamara Albu and Michelle Nahum-Albright in conversation with James Hamilton Butler about their new book Fashion Portfolio: Create, Curate, Innovate, an indispensable guide to building a forward-reaching fashion portfolio.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
Artist Nancy Goldring presents Distillations, which surveys fifty years of visual and conceptual exploration, with Giulia Oskian, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, and Nancy Princenthal.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
Tria Giovan launches her evocative chronicle of the Lower East Side’s halcyon days collected from her archives, in conversation with Sean Corcoran and presented by Damiani.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
A "brilliant, beguiling memoir by one of the major musical minds of our time." —Alex Ross, music critic, The New Yorker
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
Eric Hart Jr. is in conversation with Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. about his new monograph When I Think about Power, a collection of sumptuous and tender portraits of an empowered Black queer experience published by Damiani. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
MACK at Rizzoli returns with a panel discussion to launch Larry Sultan's SWIMMERS, followed by signings with an incredible array of artists. REGISTER HERE
On May 13, MACK takes over Rizzoli Bookstore for a very special celebration. We begin with a panel discussion to celebrate the launch of Larry Sultan’s new book Swimmers with Alec Soth, Kelly Sultan, Dru Donovan and Jeff Rosenheim, followed by signings with an array of MACK's wonderful authors including Alec Soth, Stephen Shore and Justine Kurland.
Come meet this incredible roster of authors, be inspired, browse MACK's newest books, buy signed copies, and raise a glass with us.
3.30–4.30 pm
The Legacy of Larry Sultan: Dru Donovan, Jeff Rosenheim, Alec Soth & Kelly Sultan in conversation
Followed by signings with:
5.15–6.15
Gail Rebhan
Sally Stein
Rosalind Fox Solomon
Paul Graham
Ahndraya Parlato
Stephen Shore
6.30–7.30
Alec Soth
Justine Kurland
Talia Chetrit
Moyra Davey
Nona Faustine
D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Roe Ethridge
PLEASE NOTE: Seating during the panel discussion is very limited and will be first come, first served. (There will be standing room.) Doors open at 3 pm. The panel discussion will be recorded and available to watch later on YouTube.
Rizzoli presents an evening with Bobby McAlpine celebrating the recent work of McALPINE, the award-winning architectural and interior design firm, and their new monograph McALPINE: Romantic Modernism.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
American Federation of Arts and Rizzoli Electa present the artist Whitfield Lovell in conversation with Dr. Cheryl Finley about his practice, the traveling exhibition and accompanying monograph Whitfield Lovell: Passages, and recurring themes in his work.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
"Fishman’s research is nothing short of remarkable… Fishman succeeds wildly in uncovering the anguish and beauty in Converse’s bewildering story. This should earn Converse some new fans.” —Publishers Weekly
Howard Fishman in conversation with New Yorker staff writer Sarah Larson to launch To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse. PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
Kirk Knuffke Trio pays tribute to the music and legacy of Ron Miles, featuring Brandon Seabrook and Matt Wilson and hosted by Rizzoli Music Aperitivo.
Tickets include a glass of wine, provided by Field Blend Selections. Seating is limited and is first come, first served. Doors open at 4:45 pm. REGISTER HERE
“I believe that there is an abstract rhythmical structure that runs parallel to all life and that unconsciously binds us together.” —Sean Scully
Sean Scully in conversation with Raphy Sarkissian about the celebratory, exploratory materiality of Scully's abstract formalism to mark the publication of his monograph Sean Scully: Material World. PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
PLEASE NOTE: RSVP is required. Seating is first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
A conversation and book signing celebrating the publication of Seven Days in Venice with author Gianmaria Donà dalle Rose, featuring an introduction by Charles Tolbert, President of Save Venice; a conversation with artist Judi Harvest; and selected readings by actor and model Shu Q.
Celebrated floral designer Gabriela Salazar of La Musa de las Flores is joined by Lucy Hunter to launch The Artistry of Flowers.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. REGISTER HERE
“Monsters is an incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time." —Nick Hornby
To mark International Jazz Day 2023, Rizzoli Music Aperitivo welcomes The Leonhart Brass Band, led by the Grammy-winning Michael Leonhart and featuring members of Antibalas, the Dap-Kings, & Red Baraat.
Tickets include a glass of wine, provided by Field Blend Selections. Seating is limited and is first come, first served. Doors open at 4:45 pm. GET TICKETS
Rizzoli Bookstore is thrilled to host the third day of the second annual Italian Literary Fiction Festival.
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with Italian General Consulate in Boston, FUIS (Italian Unitary Writers’s Federation), The Bridge Award, CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art), NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Boston Chilton Club, and I AM Books. REGISTER HERE
Multipli Forti: Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature
Multipli Forti is a transatlantic window on major literary trends of Italian fiction, told by the authors who are writing it. We asked them to think about six major themes that shape today’s literature in their language. Each event of Multipli Forti will revolve around their response to these themes, which take the form of short stories, literary memoirs and meditations, swift brief essays and, in some cases, even personal confessions. The first theme is that of individual and collective destinies, along the line that connects Dante to contemporary attempts to write in the first person—while writing about the whole world. The second theme is that of “Italianness” itself, and how what we call “Italian Literature” is, in fact, informed by foreign, alien, and estranging, vital influences. The hand-to-hand combat with reality is the third theme: political engagement, from the Renaissance concept of inchiesta to the current hybridizations of fiction and reportage. The fourth theme is myth, as either a fellow or an enemy to history. As reservoirs of images, history and myth, blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality: they are a common language that builds communities. The fifth theme is bodies, and we associate it with the issue of power. We invited authors to think about authority, and about how authority disciplines our bodies in relation to political, literary, and psychological institutions. The last theme, Genius loci, is the theme of places, of vernacular and dialectal traditions in a land of proudly different territories, the theme of the thin line that separates the familiar from the unknown.
10:30 a.m.: Readings from the Elsa Morante’s Menzogna e sortilegio in the translation of Jenny McPhee
10:45 a.m: The Bridge Book Award
Presentation of the Italian winners of the 7th Edition 2022 and announcement of the candidates of the 8th Edition 2023.
Walter Siti (2022 winner for Italian nonfiction) will be in conversation with Brian Robert Moore, translator of his book Contro L’impegno (Rizzoli), and Chiara Valerio (2022 winner for Italian fiction) will discuss with Antony Shugaar, translator of her novel Così per sempre (Einaudi). Along with them, and some of the American winners, the panel includes the new Italian fiction and non-fiction candidates for the 2023 Edition of the Prize. Representatives of all the institutions that support the award - the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, FUIS (United Italian Federation of Writers), American Academy in Rome, the Center for American Studies and Civitella Ranieri Foundation - will participate in the event.
MODERATORS: Fabio Finotti and Maria Ida Gaeta
3:00 p.m.: Ginevra Lamberti, Chiara Marchelli, Nadeesha Uyangoda
RESPONDENT: luri Moscardi
MODERATOR: Alessandro Giammei
5:00 p.m.: Translating Italian Literature: from the classics to today
Conversation with Ann Goldstein, Jenny McPhee, and Michael Moore
MODERATORS: Monica Calabritto and Eugenio Refini.
6:30 p.m: Claudia Durastanti, Valeria Parrella
RESPONDENTS: Vetri Nathan and Isabella Livorni
MODERATOR: Eugenio Refini
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