Past Events

06/01/2023 - 6:00pm

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.
05/31/2023 - 6:00pm

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

05/25/2023 - 6:00pm

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

 

05/24/2023 - 6:00pm

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

05/23/2023 - 6:00pm

 

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

05/22/2023 - 6:00pm

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

05/17/2023 - 6:00pm

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

05/16/2023 - 6:00pm

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

05/15/2023 - 6:00pm

 

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

05/13/2023 - 3:30pm

 

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.

05/11/2023 - 6:00pm

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

05/10/2023 - 6:00pm

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

05/08/2023 - 6:00pm

 

"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

05/07/2023 - 5:00pm

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

05/05/2023 - 6:00pm

 

“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

05/03/2023 - 6:00pm

 

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.

05/02/2023 - 6:00pm

 

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

05/01/2023 - 6:00pm

Monsters is an incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time." —Nick Hornby

Esquire Book Club presents Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer in conversation with Adrienne Westenfeld. 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
04/30/2023 - 5:00pm

 

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

04/27/2023 - 10:30am

 

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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