With RCINY support, Romanian artists team Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor presented their most recent project, Appointment with History, at the Lombard Fried Projects gallery in New York City (September-October 2008). The exhibition and lecture were featured by Johanna Burton in the November 2008 issue of Artforum.

The first concert of the "Gypsy in a Tree" tour at MIT’s Wong Auditorium/Tang Center (Cambridge, MA) was announced in the October 14, 2008 issue of The Boston Globe.

The September 4 premiere of "Fela!", the Off Broadway musical by Bill T. Jones, was received with outstanding reviews by the American press, which has also praised the set and costume designs bearing the signature of Romanian artists Marina Draghici, Nuclear Fairy, Irlo and Omar

The exhibition organized by Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA, with RCINY support, was positively reviewed in the local media.

RCINY organized in July 2008 a US tour celebrating the release of "The Romanian-American Jazz Suite" by Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban Ensemble. The concerts (in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston) and the CD received both an audience success and enthusiastic reviews from the American press.

The extraordinary concert organized by RCINY on July 5, 2008, was included in the music listing of the prestigious Time Out New York, with a very enthusiastic description.

Undertitled "A Celebration of Romanian Street Art", this exhibition received praise from the New York Magazine, and an extensive coverage and debate in the Romanian language media.

The retrospective presenting the first historical overview of Romanian cinema in America after 1989, "Shining through a Long, Dark Night: Romanian Cinema, Then and Now", April 16-27,  2008, Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, was enjoyed by the New York public and largely featured both in the US and Romanian media.

The US release of "Stuff and Dough" (2001), the feature debut of director Cristi Puiu, at Film Forum, New York, was critically praised in the US media. Please find below a selection of its reviews.