Italian Cinema Today

Jeannine Guilyard | Writer/Assignmeent Editor @franoi @13wham | 2001 Emmy and Peabody winner @ABC | @UofR graduate - Art History/Anthropology

[Italian Cinema Today @ItaloCinema2day]

Pasolini's Playground of Roman Ruins
https://t.co/zmbVXdn6EB

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

The Trump administration is greenlighting the destruction of endangered species’ habitats.

Since this administration is willing to turn its back on its responsibilities, it’s up to state attorneys general to step up.
https://t.co/RRkKfbvmX9

[Italian Cinema Today @ItaloCinema2day]

@RepLangworthy https://t.co/mbqQiQhFaY

[Congressman Nick Langworthy @RepLangworthy]

Dogs and cats are our family. They should never be tortured in outdated lab tests when modern science offers safer, more effective alternatives. We can use high-tech methods to test medicines and products to best protect people. My bipartisan COMPACT Act helps by ending taxpayer-funded testing.

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Sharing this lost video I took when I visited the stunning Sala Pasolini exhibit at Rome's Central Library...
https://t.co/NXwzkVFAY4 #pasolini #accattone @CittaPasolini

[13WHAM @13WHAM]

Animal advocates and lawmakers alike are calling for alternatives to using animals in medical research as the March to Abolish Animal Testing, a 207-mile, 14-day march from Albany to Marshall BioResources in North Rose, concludes today in Wayne County.

https://t.co/wISsyoEmWv

[Congressman Nick Langworthy @RepLangworthy]

Dogs and cats belong in loving homes, not tortured in research labs. I’m proud to sponsor the bipartisan COMPACT Act. This will end taxpayer-funded biomedical testing on dogs and cats and give animals currently in labs a chance to be saved and fostered and placed with families.

[Italian Cinema Today @ItaloCinema2day]

Celebrating @GDeLaurentiis on #DWTS, remembering her grandmother's infamous dance scene in the 1949 film "Riso Amaro" (Bitter Rice), produced by Giada's grandfather. ♥️
https://t.co/ItppFzqRY5 via @YouTube @officialdwts

[Tiger @tiger26931]

Today, none of the known 9/11 search dogs remain alive. Yet their courage, loyalty and service have never been forgotten.
Twenty-five years later, we remember every life lost, every person who ran towards danger—and the remarkable animals who stood faithfully beside them.

[The_Real_T_Paine @RealTPaine1]

The last surviving rescue dog from 9/11 passed away in 2016.

Good girl

[ABC News @ABC]

A final look at the World Trade Center, just after midnight on Sept. 11, 2001, from New York affiliate WABC's sign-off of their Sept. 10 news broadcast.

[Italian Cinema Today @ItaloCinema2day]

Check out my review for @FraNoi of one of my all-time favorite documentaries- Ettore Scola's 'How Strange to Be Named Federico' -available to stream on @Kanopy ..

https://t.co/mBtTsCR1BD

[Return to Freedom @ReturnToFreedom]

A New York Times story on the increase in wild horse slaughter underscores the need to pass a full slaughter ban and improve the management of #wildhorses on our public lands: https://t.co/bYmLPcYSVL

[MTA @MTA]

Together with her friends, colleagues, and all who were inspired by her art, we share in the profound sorrow of Yayoi Kusama’s passing. Throughout her long career, she fearlessly pioneered new artistic languages—from visual art and performance to fiction and poetry. Her enduring devotion to love, joy and human spirit lives on through her work—and in all those who will continue to be moved by it.

In 2022, Arts & Design was honored to bring Kusama’s boundless imagination to the new Grand Central Madison through her mosaic artwork—“A Message of Love, Directly from My Heart unto the Universe.” Drawing on her “My Eternal Soul” series, the glass mosaic assembles a joyful crowd of Kusama’s signature motifs: beaming faces, one of her beloved pumpkins, and swirling organic and abstract shapes, in vibrant colors and perpetual motion. Kusama spent formative years in New York in the 1960s, and this work stands as a heartfelt gift to the city she long considered a creative home. An accompanying poem written by Kusama extends a message of love to all who encounter the piece—from daily riders to visitors from around the world.

This is Yayoi Kusama.
I offer you a message of love, directly from my heart unto the universe.
May you all experience the true beauty of loving humanity.
Human life is beautiful.
My wish is to deliver this vision, with all that is in my life, to the people of New York.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of riders pass by Kusama’s artwork at GCM. Many pause, reflect, and capture a photo with it. Her work will continue to remind New Yorkers that—even amid the rush of daily life—we can grow, flourish, and create our own infinite gardens filled with love and joy.

Yayoi Kusama
A Message of Love, Directly from My Heart unto the Universe, 2022
Glass mosaic
120.66 x 7.25 feet
Fabricated by Miotto Mosaics Art Studios
Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design and Long Island Rail Road
Photos by Kerry McFate
©YAYOI KUSAMA
Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, David Zwirner

[Art Basel @ArtBasel]

Yayoi Kusama, 1929 - 2026 🖤

[13WHAM @13WHAM]

Tomorrow is your last chance to see MAG's exhibit featuring the work of the late African American artist John Rhoden.

https://t.co/bPtMNnsImv

[Voters For Animal Rights @theanimalvoters]

The Trump Administration is sending America's wild horses to slaughter at an alarming rate.

Now, more than ever, Congress needs to pass the SAFE Act, which would prohibit horses from being shipped to Mexico and Canada to be sold for slaughter.

Thank you to @nytimes for your work exposing this cruelty.

https://t.co/fOyAs8eAj2

[Italian Cinema Today @ItaloCinema2day]

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. https://t.co/3aUloRl1fe

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

250 years ago today, a new nation was born.

This is how, a century and a half later, four hundred men carved its story into the side of a mountain...

The monument is Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and how it was made is even more astonishing than how it looks. The sculptor Gutzon Borglum began the work in 1927, choosing four presidents to represent the first 150 years of American history: Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln.

The faces are each about 60 feet tall, roughly the height of a six-story building.

I put together this video so you could see the men who actually built it. Look at them, dangling in leather harnesses over the edge of the cliff, hundreds of feet above the ground, drilling into solid granite.

Around 90 percent of the mountain was carved away with dynamite, set by workers who learned to blast the rock to within inches of the finished surface.

Then came the honeycombing: drilling dozens of small holes close together so the last layers of granite could be knocked away by hand and smoothed. In total, they removed some 450,000 tons of rock from the mountain.

Many of these workers were miners who had come to the Black Hills chasing gold and found themselves carving a monument instead. The conditions were brutal, the heights were terrifying, and the work stopped again and again when the money ran out.

It took fourteen years. And in all that time, blasting a mountainside with dynamite while hanging from ropes, not a single worker lost their life.

On the country's 250th birthday, it is worth remembering that behind those four immortal faces are four hundred forgotten men who carved them out of a mountain...

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Powerful moment in Lampedusa today as the Pope Leo climbs to the highest rock overlooking the Mediterranean where thousands of migrants drowned while seeking a better life.

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Christie’s holding online sale of jewels owned and worn by Claudia Cardinale. https://t.co/zhHtVOZoN9