Petzel Gallery is presenting English for Foreigners (abridged), a solo show of works by Stephen Prina. The exhibition is on view from September 11 to October 26 and marks the artist’s seventeenth exhibition at Petzel and his first at the gallery’s Upper East Side location. Pete [Peter] [Pietro] Prina, *October 22, 1905, †May 9, 1975, my father, played clarinet for the local band in the Comune di Canischio, in the Piedmont region of Northwestern Italy. One day the Blackshirts arrived and demanded that the band perform “Giovinezza,” the anthem of the Italian National Fascist Party. It was this event that convinced him it was time to emigrate from Italy—immigrate to America. He set sail on the RMS Mauretania from The Port of Cherbourg, France, and arrived at The Port of New York on October 5, 1923, at the age of seventeen. English for Foreigners,
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