AMERICAN ACADEMY in ROME MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2018 Welcome to the Fall/Winter 2018 Issue of AAR Magazine

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AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2018 Welcome to the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of AAR Magazine.

This issue of AAR Magazine features the artists, scholars, thinkers, and producers that form the diverse and expansive community that is the American Academy in Rome. We describe some of the 2018–19 programming, which revolves around the theme of “The Body.” We introduce eight Residents for fall 2018 and winter 2019 and update readers on two AAR exhibitions: Paolo Gioli, Anthropolaroid, which opened in Rome in October, and the U.S. debut in November of Matera Imagined/ Matera Immaginata, at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. Finally, we highlight the Brown Foundation, which has established the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize for visual arts.

Vi diamo il benvenuto all’edizione primaverile 2018 dell’AAR Magazine.

Questo numero della rivista AAR Magazine presenta gli artisti, gli studiosi, i pensatori e i produttori appartenenti alla vasta e variegata comunità che costituisce l’American Academy in Rome. Illustra alcuni eventi previsti per il 2018 - 2019 che ruotano attorno al tema del “Corpo”. Presenta gli otto Residenti dell’autunno 2018 e dell’inverno 2019, e aggiorna i lettori su due mostre dell’Accademia: Paolo Gioli, Anthropolaroid, inaugurata lo scorso otto- bre a Roma e, negli Stati Uniti, l’apertura nel mese di novembre di Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata, all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York. E infine mette in risalto la Brown Foundation che ha istituito il Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize per le arti visive. FALL/WINTER 2018

UP FRONT IN CLOSING

2 22 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT CONVIVIUM McKim Medal Gala 4 FAR AFIELD 23 Checking in with past Fellows and Residents DONORS

6 26 FROM THE ARCHIVES CURRENT FELLOWS Robert Venturi 2018–2019 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows

7 28 IN RESIDENCE WHEN IN ROME Spotlighting recent Residents Chef Kyle Pierce shares favorite places around Rome

12 CONVERSATIONS/CONVERSAZIONI This season’s discussions in Rome and the US

FEATURES

13 BRINGING SOUTHERN ITALY TO THE U.S. Matera Imagined opens at the Italian Cultural Institute

14 A DIALOGUE WITH HISTORY First Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize awarded

16 DESIGNING WATER Global discussions about a vital resource

18 RETHINKING THE INSTANT IMAGE Paolo Gioli: Anthropolaroid opens in Rome

20 ANIMALS, OMENS, AND THE DIVINE Robin Lane Fox to lecture on the “The Natural World: Pagans and Christians” LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT:

Le città sono una delle realizzazioni più vaste e complesse delle civiltà. Sono la personificazione delle ambiguità della vita moderna rispecchiando la storia e le aspirazioni della loro epoca e doc- umentando quello a cui teniamo veramente. La forza dell’arte e dell’erudizione consiste proprio nell’invitarci alla riflessione, spesso rammentandoci alcune situazioni esistenti al mondo che finiamo per non vedere perché ci sono familiari. La recente presentazione di The Mile-Long Opera, l’ambizioso progetto corale sulla High Line a New York, ha stimolato tali considerazioni, offrendo dei punti di vista inediti sulla città e il vivere quotidiano Cities are among the largest and most complex al suo interno. Frutto della collaborazione tra gli things that civilizations produce. They embody the architetti Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, 1981 ambiguities of modern life, reflecting history and Affiliated Fellow) e il compositore David Lang (1991 the aspirations of their time, providing evidence of Fellow, 2017 Resident), l’opera esalta la nostra espe- what we value. The power of art and scholarship is rienza collettiva, avvalendosi della musica, dell’arte, to jog our thinking, often reminding us of conditions dell’architettura e della poesia. Questo genere di col- in the world which have become invisible because of laborazione e l’analisi critica della storia costituis- their familiarity. cono il fulcro dell’attività dell’Accademia, e i borsisti The recent presentation of The Mile-Long Opera, e i residenti di quest’anno individueranno e svilup- an ambitious choral project on the High Line in peranno le loro personali sorprendenti associazioni New York, sparked these associations, providing di idee attraverso i progetti svolti a Roma. new views of the city and daily life inside its walls. A fronte dei toni sempre più disgreganti del Created by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro dibattito pubblico, assumono un’importanza cres- (Elizabeth Diller, 1981 Affiliated Fellow) and composer cente la comunità dell’Accademia e il crocevia di David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident), the work cele- attività innovative che essa rappresenta. A breve, nel brates our collective experience, drawing on music, 2019, la AAR entrerà nel suo 125° anno, e ci teniamo a art, architecture, and poetry. This type of collab- evidenziare il valore duraturo che il dono del tempo oration and the critical appraisal of history is an e dello spazio assicura a studiosi e artisti. Grazie per essential part of the Academy’s work, and this year’s il vostro incessante impegno e il supporto che rende Fellows and Residents will discover and develop possibile questo lavoro. their own unexpected links through their projects in Rome. In the face of the increasingly divisive tone of public discourse, the Academy community and the forum it provides for innovative work is increasingly important. As AAR enters its 125th year in 2019, we underscore the long-term value the gift of time and space offers scholars and artists. Thank you for your continued engagement and for the support that makes this work possible. Mark Robbins, President and CEO

2 AAR Magazine i Follow @aarpresident on Instagram for up-to-the-minute images of all that’s happening with AAR.

OPPOSITE Mark Robbins with (from left) Carrie Mae Weems, Alicia Moran and Jason Moran (2017 Resident).

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Fall/Winter 2018 3 FAR AFIELD:

Last month, architect LIZ DILLER (1981 Affiliated Fellow) and composer DAVID LANG (1991 Fellow) debuted The Mile-Long Opera: a biogra- phy of 7 o’clock , a citywide public-engagement project that brought together 1,000

singers from across New , www.royalcollection.org.uk York for free performances on the High Line. The work included words and lyrics by acclaimed poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine.

MARY MARGARET JONES (1998 Fellow) of Hargreaves Associates completed master planning and landscape architecture work on Zaryadye Park, the first large scale park to be built in CATHERINE E. BONESHO Moscow in the last fifty years. (2018 Fellow) joined the Department of

Near Eastern HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II 2017 TRUST / © COLLECTION ROYAL Languages and CECILE FROMONT (2018 Fellow) Classicist BRENDA LONGFELLOW Cultures at the joined Yale University as (2013 Fellow) was the University of California, professor of African art in the organizer of Women on the Los Angeles. Department of the History Bay of Naples: Recent of Art. Research, for 2018 The University of Maryland’s Symposium Campanum Architecture Program at the Villa Vergiliana The sculptor welcomed JOSEPH WILLIAMS MARTIN PURYEAR in Cuma, Italy, in October. (2018 Fellow) this fall as an (1998 Resident) assistant professor. will represent the Speakers included Fellows BARBARA KELLUM United States at (1980), EVE D’AMBRA (1986), LAUREN HACKWORTH the 2019 Venice PETERSEN (1999), JENNIFER TRIMBLE (1998), Biennale. MARGARET LAIRD (1999), HERICA VALLADARES J. MEEJIN YOON (2006 Fellow) was chosen (2009), SARAH LEVIN-RICHARDSON (2015), and 12771. II (RCIN by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (recto) , ca. 1530–32. Lent Tityus KRISTINA MILNOR (2004), and Resident ELAINE dean of Cornell GAZDA (2014). The conference examined University’s College the lives of women outside the domestic of Architecture, Art, sphere, and in particular how women and Planning. from a range of social backgrounds and Yoon is currently geographic origins engaged with their head of architec- local communities. ture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Michelangelo image: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Michelangelo image:

4 AAR Magazine CAROLINE CHEUNG (2016 Fellow) has become The artist JOYCE KOZLOFF (2000 KEITH KRUMWIEDE (2018 assistant professor in the Classics Fellow) was appointed Department at Princeton University. Fellow) has donated 190 dean of architecture works from her personal at California College of collection of women artists to the Arts. the Smith College Museum of Art. Among those included are AGNES DENES (1998 Fellow), ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN (2018

, www.royalcollection.org.uk Fellow), MELISSA MEYER (1981 Fellow), SIMONETTA MORO (2000 The Bronx Museum of the Arts is Affiliated Fellow), AMY SILLMAN presenting a ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN (2015 Resident), JENNY SNIDER (2018 Fellow) survey called (2012 Fellow), and MICHELLE Image of an Image (November AAR’s Advisory Council has 7, 2018–March 3, 2019). organized a session, “Ancient STUART (1995 Resident). Mediterranean Literatures:

Comparisons, Contrasts, An exhibition of work by the artist NICO Assumptions,” for the 2019 VASCELLARI (2008 Italian Fellow), titled Revenge, took place June 8–September 9,

ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST / © HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II 2017 TRUST / © COLLECTION ROYAL Annual Meeting of the 2018, at MAXXI in Rome. Society of Classical Studies. It will be held on Sunday, January 6, in San Diego.

AWARDS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS

CARMEN C. BAMBACH (1994 Fellow, 2015 The Getty Research Institute welcomes The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Affiliated Fellow) won an Award for MATTHEW CANEPA (2003 Affiliated Fellow) Foundation gave 2018 fellowships to Excellence from the Association of Art to the Getty Scholars Program to work five AAR Fellows: STEFANIA TUTINO (2015) Museum Curators for her 2017–18 on “The Iranian Royal Image and the for intellectual and cultural history; KATE exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman Transformation of Eurasia’s Visual GILMORE (2008), NICOLE MILLER (2017), and and Designer at the Metropolitan Cultures of Power.” In addition, AVINOAM DAVID SCHUTTER (2016) for fine arts; and Museum of Art. SHALEM (2016 Resident) was named a ANTHONY HERNANDEZ (1999) for photography. guest scholar for his project “When

, ca. 1530–32. Lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (RCIN 12771. II (RCIN by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (recto) , ca. 1530–32. Lent Tityus Nature Becomes Ideology: Monuments, Landscape, and the Sight of Memory,” THOMAS HENDRICKSON (2013 Fellow, and SANDRA PHILLIPS (2000 Resident) will 2014 Affiliated Fellow) won the Jozef be a museum guest scholar researching IJsewijn Prize for Ancient Libraries “Host Department: Photographs.” and Renaissance Humanism: The “De bibliothecis” of Justus Lipsius. The prize is awarded every three years by the The Architectural League has recognized International Association for Neo-Latin the work of the architectural designer Studies for the best first book on a and scholar BRYONY ROBERTS (2016 Fellow) Neo-Latin topic.

Michelangelo image: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Michelangelo image: with a 2018 League Prize.

Fall/Winter 2018 5 FROM THE ARCHIVES:

Robert Venturi seated in Piazza Navona in 1956

architectural historian and 2015 Fellow, also noted that Venturi began his Fellowship with that belief already formed. He was determined the Rome Prize would validate his professional ambitions—and he made it happen. Venturi graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1947. Three years later he earned an MFA in architecture from the same school. By the time he won the Rome Prize, at age 31, he had already worked for Oskar Stonorv and Eero Saarinen. In his 1954 application, Venturi emphasized the need to be conscious of tradition and the importance of urban planning. He also believed that architects must “absorb history through direct, extended expo- sure,” according to Costanzo, “so that it can perme- ate their consciousness as if by osmosis.” Venturi’s time in Rome corresponded with a battle over the soul of the Academy’s architecture program that had wrangled leaders since reopening after World War II. Would a classical and Beaux- Arts focus continue or would modernism triumph? Under the liberal directorship of Laurance Roberts throughout the 1950s, the Academy’s reputation as a center for progressive architectural thinking Gaetani. by Gerardo Photograph slowly improved. The Academy to which Venturi Robert Venturi returned as a Resident in 1966—only months before his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture AAR celebrates the life and work of Robert Venturi, would radically alter both the profession’s discourse one of America’s most innovative architects and and practice—was a much more receptive place. a Rome Prize Fellow from 1954 to 1956, who died on Venturi stayed close to the Academy for many years, September 18, 2018. Venturi repeatedly acknowl- serving on the Board of Trustees from 1969 to 1976. edged that his time in Rome had a tremendous impact on his career. “More than his education or internships,” wrote Denise R. Costanzo in the Journal of Architectural Education, “the Rome Prize experience made Venturi believe—‘for the first time’—that he was a full-fledged architect.” Costanzo, an

6 AAR Magazine IN RESIDENCE: Photograph by Gerardo Gaetani. by Gerardo Photograph

ABOVE Each year, distinguished artists and Mary Beard scholars from around the world are autographs copies of her books invited to the Academy as Residents. brought by lecture During their stay, Residents live and work as part attendees. of the community, serving informally as a resource for the Fellows and participating in special Academy- wide events—concerts, exhibitions, lectures, readings, and instructional walks in Rome. Meet some of our Residents for this fall and winter.

Fall/Winter 2018 7 MARY BEARD LEFT Lucy Shoe Meritt Resident in Southeast view of the Moore Classical Studies and Archaeology, Honeyhouse September 24–October 1, 2018; (1998) in and February 4–April 1, 2019 Cashiers, North Carolina, by Mary Beard is professor of Marlon Blackwell Architects. classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen books on society and culture in the ancient world, including Women and Power: A Manifesto (2017), The Roman Triumph (2007), and The Parthenon (2002). Since 1992 she has been the classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, which also hosts her popular blog, A Don’s Life. Beard’s newest book, How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization (2018), looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity, from prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul. The book contains MARLON BLACKWELL year in Italy while getting his post text and images that complement Architect in Residence, professional graduate degree, her episodes in Civilisations, December 17, 2018–January 7, 2019; through the Syracuse in Florence the epic BBC and PBS docu- and February 11–April 1, 2019 program in 1990–91, will record mentary television series that his observations through draw- premiered earlier this year. Marlon Blackwell is Distinguished ings and photography. Beard gave the Christina Professor and E. Fay Jones While his firm Marlon Huemer Lectureship at the Chair in Architecture at the Fay Blackwell Architects has several Academy on September 25 that Jones School of Architecture projects in the works, he will inaugurated the 2018–19 series and Design at the University remain open to new experiences of events, New Work in the Arts & of Arkansas. While in Rome, in the Catacombs, at the Fosse Humanities: The Body. Titled “The he plans to visit buildings and Ardeatine Monument, and in Classical Body: The Naked and spaces from Rome’s long history front of paintings by Caravaggio. the Nude,” Beard’s talk was deliv- in search of what he calls tonal “My goal is … to be directly ered to a packed house at the space, “that is, space defined affected by what I discover in Villa Aurelia. (View the archived with more darkness than light.” my experience of what I find video at livestream.com/ The concept informs his cur- and what I choose to translate— aarome.) As the Lucy Shoe Meritt rent work in the design studio, these would be abstractions and Scholar in Residence, she returns “which emphasizes a thick, slow, possibly experiential equivalents to the Academy in the winter implicit architecture that runs that enrich the discourse and for eight weeks. counter to much of what we manifestation of our work. And see today—overtly transparent who knows what the imagination space [that is] thin, fast, and will bring forth for a more specu- explicit.” Blackwell, who spent a lative project outside of practice.” Wangechi Mutu photograph by Kathryn Parker Almanas; Dell Upton photograph by Andrew Shurtleff of the Daily Progress by Andrew Shurtleff of Upton photograph Parker Almanas; Dell by Kathryn Mutu photograph Wangechi

8 AAR Magazine WANGECHI MUTU satirical mutilations with gro- Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence, tesquely marred forms that have December 3, 2018–January 7, 2019 experienced perverse modifica- tion, echoing the atrocities of war The work of the Kenya-born or the “improvements” of plastic Wangechi Mutu, who trained as surgery. a sculptor and anthropologist, Barbara Gladstone Gallery explores the contradictions of has hosted four solo exhibitions female and cultural identity and of Mutu’s work since 2010. The references colonial history, con- almost year-long presentation of temporary African politics, and A Promise to Communicate by the DELL UPTON the international fashion indus- Institute of Contemporary Art in James Marston Fitch Resident try. Drawing from the aesthetics Boston will end on December 31. in Historic Preservation of traditional crafts, science Among her many honors, Mutu and Conservation, fiction, and funkadelia, Mutu won a United States Artist Grant in January 21–March 18, 2019 creates work that documents 2014 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Dell Upton is professor of archi- the contemporary myth making Foundation Grant in 2008, and was tectural history at the University of endangered cultural heri- the Deutsche Guggenheim Artist of California, Los Angeles. His tage. Piecing together magazine of the Year in 2010. books include Another City: imagery with painted surfaces Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the and found materials, her elabo- New American Republic (2008), rate collages mimic amputation, Madaline: Love and Survival in transplant operations, and bionic Antebellum New Orleans (1996), prosthetics. Her figures become and Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1986). His interest in African American history, architecture, and material culture is longstanding. In recent years, Upton has studied the urban and rural landscapes of the post-Emancipation period. His most recent book, What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (2015), is an exploration of civil-rights and African American history monuments in the American South. He is also working on a revised and enlarged edition of Architecture in the United States, originally published in 1998. Wangechi Mutu photograph by Kathryn Parker Almanas; Dell Upton photograph by Andrew Shurtleff of the Daily Progress by Andrew Shurtleff of Upton photograph Parker Almanas; Dell by Kathryn Mutu photograph Wangechi

Fall/Winter 2018 9 LEFT Installation view of Hella Jongerius’s 2017 exhibition Breathing Colour at the Design Museum in London.

PAOLO GIOLI Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer-in-Residence, September 17–October 15, 2018

Born in 1942, Paolo Gioli was the Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer-in- Residence at the American Academy in Rome for 2018–19. He oversaw the installation of Paolo Gioli, Anthropolaroid, an exhibition of photographs and objects made since 1977 using SX-70 instant film, and participated in a Conversations/Conversazioni event with the photography historian Roberta Valtorta. “Consistently testing the possi- HELLA JONGERIUS Museum in London surveyed bilities of the Polaroid medium,” William A. Bernoudy Designer her work in 2017 in a stunning Peter Benson Miller wrote in the in Residence, exhibition called Breathing Colour catalogue, “Gioli has approached January 14–February 11, 2019 by Hella Jongerius. “In my work I its processes so radically that the think about how colored objects manufacturer eventually rewrote Born in 1963 in the Netherlands, affect other objects and how all instruction manuals to acknowl- Hella Jongerius is a furniture the objects behave in a certain edge the expanded potential he designer, color theorist, and the setting,” the designer said in a (and other artists) had revealed.” William A. Bernoudy Designer recent interview. “How important He also broke open the sealed in Residence at the Academy. is size or volume for a color and capsules and spread the emulsion, Her work combines the tradi- how do colored objects influence like paint, on paper and silk. In tional with the contemporary, one another? addition to the AAR show, Gioli’s the newest technologies with work is part of a group exhibi- age-old craft techniques. She tion called The Polaroid Project aims to create products with (2017–20), which has been or will individual character by including be shown in museums in Austria, craft elements in the industrial Canada, Germany, Singapore, and

production process. The Design the United States. Stephanie Mitchell. Bruno: photograph by

10 AAR Magazine EDWARD HIRSCH William B. Hart Poet in Residence, October 15–December 3, 2018 The William B. Hart Poet in Residence this season is Edward Hirsch, a celebrated poet and the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950—his accent makes it impossible for him to hide his origins—and edu- cated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a PhD in folk- lore. He taught for six years in the English Department at Wayne State University and for seventeen years in the Creative Writing Program at the University GIULIANA BRUNO notion of projection, moving of Houston. Louis Kahn Resident in across psychoanalysis, archi- Hirsch’s collection of poems, the History of Art, tecture, visual art, and moving For the Sleepwalkers (1981), February 11–April 8, 2019 image culture, where the con- received the Delmore Schwartz cept and practice of projective Memorial Award from New York Giuliana Bruno is Emmet mechanisms have developed over University, as well as the Lavan Blakeney Gleason Professor of time.” Postwar Italian artists who Younger Poets Award from the Visual and Environmental found a new kind of art object Academy of American Poets. His Studies at Harvard University, in the projective screen will be second collection, Wild Gratitude where she researches the inter- one focus of the book. Bruno is (1986), won the National Book sections of visual art, architec- especially thrilled to have the Critics Award. Since then, Hirsch ture, film, and media. Her widely reflective time to write a book has published six more poetry praised book Surface: Matters of about projective atmospheres in books, including The Living Fire: Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media the beautiful “atmosphere” of the New and Selected Poems (2010), (2014) revisited the concept Academy: “I am Italian by birth, which collected thirty-five years of materiality in contemporary and left Italy when I was very of work. He has also authored art. An earlier title, Streetwalking young, right after the laurea, on a five books of prose. on a Ruined Map (1993), was Fulbright fellowship. It is wonder- a critical remapping of Elvira ful to return and see Rome with Notari, Italy’s most prolific different eyes.” woman filmmaker. While in Rome, Bruno will work on her next book, Atmospheres of Projection: Art and Screen Media, which “explores the art of projection, both concep- tually and artistically.” For her, projection is both historical and contemporary for humanity, and her project will “perform

Bruno: photograph by Stephanie Mitchell. Bruno: photograph by a cultural excavation into the

Fall/Winter 2018 11 CONVERSATIONS/CONVERSAZIONI:

Throughout this autumn and winter, AAR is continuing its signa- ture series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, which convenes leading artists, scholars, design- The ers, historians, writers, choreographers, and performers for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities. The season includes events in Rome, New York, and San Diego. Body Some of this year’s events are part of AAR’s year-long exploration of the theme “The Body,” which considers the human body as a site of subjectivity and meaning from antiquity to the present. The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is the sponsor of Conversations/Conversazioni for the 2018–19 season.

PAOLO GIOLI, ANTHROPOLAROID MILTON GENDEL TRIBUTE IMAGINING MATERA Paolo Gioli & Roberta Valtorta Emily Braun, Lindsay Harris, Lindsay Harris, Emmet Gowin, October 11 in Rome Marella Caracciolo Chia, M. Antonella Pelizzari & Emma Blake In this conversation, the artist Paolo Gioli Barbara Drudi & Adachiara Zevi December 12 in New York spoke to the photography critic Roberta November 13 in Rome Two artists and two historians will discuss Valtorta about his career, his process, and Three art historians, a writer, and one the exhibition Matera Imagined/Matera his Academy exhibition. architectural historian gathered to honor Immaginata, which debuted last year in the life and career of Milton Gendel, an Rome and is now on view at the Italian American art critic, photographer, jour- Cultural Institute in New York. nalist, translator, cultural diplomat,

and long-time CULTURAL PATRIMONY resident of Rome James Cuno, C. Brian Rose, who died two months shy of his Laurie Rush & Lynne Lancaster one hundredth January 3 in San Diego

THE BODY: OUT FRONT/HIDDEN/ABSTRACTED birthday. An exchange of views surrounding cultural Dan Hurlin, Molissa Fenley, patrimony, with the J. Paul Getty Trust president (Cuno), an archaeology professor Pat Oleszko & Martin Wechsler THE BODY AND THE ROAD TO JUSTICE (Rose), the cultural resources manager October 25 in New York Wangechi Mutu, Peter Benson Miller, from the US Department of Defense (Rush), During this event, Martin Wechsler and Anne Palopoli and AAR’s own Mellon Professor-in-Charge moderated a discussion about the body in December 5 in Rome of the Humanities (Lancaster). performance art with the theater and pup- The artist Wangechi Mutu talks to art pet artist Dan Hurlin, the choreographer historian Peter Benson Miller and curator Molissa Fenley, and the artist Pat Oleszko. Anne Palopoli about the intersections of art, politics, and the body. Dan Hurlin image: © Stephanie Berger.

12 AAR Magazine Dan Hurlin image: © Stephanie Berger. in New York this fall: TheNew Italian photography shows Immaginata joinstwo other of Europe. a cultural bellwether for the future water at the edge of civilization to imagination from anancient back was transformed inthe collective culture, twentieth-century Matera characteristic of Mediterranean sest of history andtraditions nia-old cave dwellings. A palimp- Italian town noted for its millen- perceptions of Matera, asouthern photography hasframed modern in Matera in winter 2018. the MuseodiPalazzo Lanfranchi AAR infall 2017 andtraveled to from 2014 to 2018. Itdebuted at Professor-in-Charge of Humanities and AAR’s Andrew W.Mellon TO NEW YORK NEW TO ITALY SOUTHERN Italian Cultural Institute Cultural Italian the at opens Matera Imagined BRINGING by among others—was organized Seymour, andCarrieMae Weems, Gowin,Ghirri, Emmet David Bresson, Esther Bubley, Luigi features works by HenriCartier- York.exhibition—which The Italian Cultural Institute inNew 13–December 18, 2018, at the Town Photography andaSouthernItalian Imagined/Matera Immaginata: Academy inRome, Matera Organized by the American Lindsay Harris Matera Imagined/Matera The exhibition highlights how will beon view November , a2014 Fellow

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13 14 AAR Magazine A Dialogue with History First Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize Awarded to Karyn Olivier

In 2017, American Academy in Rome Trustee Louisa Stude Sarofim and The Brown Foundation established the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, in honor of Negley’s contributions to and love for the visual arts and her long association with the American Academy in Rome. The Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize is an eleven-month fellowship for visual artists working in any discipline, including painting, sculpture, photography, film, and new and mixed media. Negley is a Trustee Emerita of the American Academy in Rome. The first recipient of the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize is Karyn Olivier, associate professor and head of the sculpture program at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. For her project, “Histories Converse,” Olivier will identify ten to twenty works or site of public art in Rome and create a proposal or prototype of her own that is in conversation with the original. “For each, I will make a model,” Olivier writes. “These models will take different forms—fabricated sculpture, installation, 2D image, prose, or a video piece—and will function as finished artworks.” She will also produce a book that includes documentation of these models and her related research. “This book of propositions—imagined public art—will feature projects that will likely never be realized. It will function as an art object, journal, recorder, and idiosyncratic map of the Eternal City.” Last summer Olivier oversaw the installation of a public artwork in the University of Kentucky’s Memorial Hall. Her work, titled Witness, responds to a 1934 mural by Ann Rice O’Hanlon, commissioned by the Works Progress Administration, part of which depicts African and Native Americans with racial stereotypes. Olivier painted interior dome in the hall’s atrium with gold leaf and populated the space with imagery of people of color, created in a style similar to O’Hanlon’s. A Frederick Douglass quote is written around the circumference of the dome: “There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”

LEFT Karyn Olivier install- ing Witness (2018) in Memorial Hall at the University of Kentucky.

Photograph provided by the artist.

Fall/Winter 2018 15 while maintaining its geomorphological characteris- tics. Turenscape’s experiments with cleaning water is designing inspired by the rich farming wisdom of China—field making, irrigating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting. Each project suggests an aquatic intelligence must be scientific and aesthetic. A thoughtful framework water from Anita Berrizbeitia positioned these works within political and social inequity, ethics, and governance, Global Discussions arguing that “hybrid approaches” best combine functionality with narrative, strong visual identity, About a Vital Resource and symbolic references. Undergirding water design is technology: engineering that regulates water transfer, volume, flow, and purity; design that enables extraordinary specta- cles; and digital modeling and fabrication that afford It was all things water in the picturesque Brandywine experimentation. Speakers expanded on these themes Valley as twenty-eight professionals in landscape in the final session, “Technology, Innovation, and the architecture, urban design, architecture, and ecol- Future.” In Tongva Park in Santa Monica, Field Operations ogy gathered for Designing Water, a two-day sympo- demonstrated how digital modeling can be functional sium held October 17–18. A collaboration between and aesthetic. Catherine Seavitt Nordenson explored how Longwood Gardens and AAR, these experts explored the US Army Corps of Engineers develops nature- ways inherited concepts have shaped our under- based features in Jamaica Bay as viable coastal storm standing of water design and where future innova- risk reduction techniques. James Garland uses technol- tive work might take us. ogy with poetic intent, which attendees witnessed in Christophe Girot’s keynote set a tone of optimism the Main Fountain Garden show on the symposium’s and alarm. One striking aspect of his talk was a opening night. point-cloud animation and simulation sound record- Lectures by Longwood Gardens biographer Colvin ing of the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland, melt- Randall and the landscape architect of the Main ing. In the first session, “People, Pleasure, and Other Fountain Garden redesign, West 8, positioned Long- Populations,” speakers engaged water’s symbolic, wood within Pierre du Pont’s Grand Tour of significant social, and cultural functions; water as a source of gardens and World’s Fair sites in Western Europe and pleasure and sensation; and water’s value health for America. Randall also shed light on the culture of humans and nonhuman species alike. Mary Margaret celebration, beauty, and delight that we experienced Jones described Hargreaves Associates’ fountains at Longwood for the two days we spent there. at Discovery Green in Houston, which reinforced I left Designing Water with a clearer idea of what how water design surprises us, soothes our ears, and aquatic intelligence might be. As designers, we need cools us on hot days. The interactive technologies to think differently about how we teach, practice, and in STOSS’s University of Michigan quadrangle reha- envision our work. We need to build not just projects, bilitation connects people to water’s natural cycles but awareness. We need to speak up about the alarm- and dynamics. SCAPE’s activist work suggests ways ing state of world we live in. to choreograph ecological, cultural, and political processes to rehabilitate water bodies. Julia Czerniak, chief curator of Designing Water, is The second session, “Shaping Civic Space: professor and associate dean at Syracuse Architecture. Challenges of the Anthropocene,” showed how design confronts urgent global concerns like drought, floods, and contamination. ZUS’s work on the Meadowpark in the Meadowlands advances a large natural reserve offering flood protection while creating social, infrastructural, and spatial value. LATZ + Partners’ Ariel Sharon Park in Tel Aviv retains a massive amount of water with novel technologies

16 AAR Magazine LEFT, BELOW Attendees explored Longwood Gardens and heard more than two-dozen presentations.

BOTTOM The Designing Water speakers, from left: Christophe Girot, Chris Reed, James A. Garland, Sarah Weidner ABOVE RIGHT Astheimer, Nina- Dorothée Imbert, Julia Czerniak Marie E. Lister, a professor Michael G. Lee, of landscape Julia Czerniak, architecture at Paul B. Redman, The Ohio State Mark Robbins University. (1997 Fellow), Mary Margaret Jones (1998 Fellow), Dorothée Imbert, Anita Berrizbeitia (2006 Fellow), Catherine Seavitt Nordenson (1998 Fellow), Kristian Koreman, Kongjian Yu, and Tilman Latz.

Fall/Winter 2018 17 Volto in cera, 1997, Polaroid transfer print on drawing paper, silver and gold pigment, acrylic, graphite, 50 x 35 cm

18 AAR Magazine The Italian artist Paolo Gioli Anthropolaroid, it demonstrates (1942– ), who studied painting not only the artist’s technical vir- RETHIKING and the nude at the Accademia tuosity with the medium, but also delle Belle Arti in Venice, has his profound meditations upon THE long been preoccupied with the the human form and the frac- human body. Like his experi- tured body politic. The accompa- mental films, which establish nying, fully illustrated catalogue INSTANT “an essential analogy between includes a text informed by a new celluloid and skin as the sensi- interview with Gioli about his tive interface between the self work and aspects of his pro- IMAGE and the outside world,” Gioli’s cess, as well as the artist’s essay Polaroid transfers use the body “Anthropolaroid,” published in Paolo Gioli: and its fragments as a means Italian in 1979 and translated into Anthropolaroid to interrogate photography’s English here for the first time. history and theoretical founda- The exhibition is curated presents the artist’s tions, as well as its dialogue with by Peter Benson Miller, Andrew experiments cinema, printmaking, sculpture, Heiskell Arts Director at the with Polaroids and painting. American Academy in Rome. After spending a year in New Paolo Gioli is the Richard York in the late 1960s, Gioli was Grubman and Caroline Mortimer among the first artists to master Photographer-in-Residence at Polaroid transfers following the the American Academy in Rome introduction of SX-70 instant for 2018–19. film in 1972. Since then, he has The exhibition is on view from produced a wide range of for- October 11 to December 9, 2018, mally complex works with the Friday through Sunday, 4:00– gelatin and dye layers of Polaroid 7:00pm. A full color exhibition emulsion. Using handmade catalogue is available for pur- pinhole cameras and alternative chase at shop.aarome.org. paper and silk supports, Gioli marries the most elemental procedures of early photogra- i phy to a sophisticated use of the Paolo Gioli: Anthropolaroid one-step film created by Edwin 11 October–9 December 2018 American Academy in Rome Land, cofounder of the Polaroid Via Angelo Masina, 5 Corporation. Among the many Rome fruitful paradoxes of Gioli’s work is the way he creates timeless images by condensing a vast iconography into a spontaneous set of dexterous operations with instant film. This exhibition, part of a series of public events at the American Academy in Rome during 2018–19 exploring the body as a site of subjectivity and meaning from antiquity to the present, features a selection of Gioli’s Polaroid transfers. Titled

Fall/Winter 2018 19 20 delve into pagan and Christian views of creation. It circa 500CE. early from Christians, Paul andthe Gospels to approaches to the natural world by pagans and Christian Rome. The lectures will explore differing history, thewill discuss natural world inpagan and Robinseries, Fox, Lane anoted scholar of ancient Michigan. In2018, the forty-fifth year of the lecture American Academy inRome andthe University of history and culture. They are presented at both the forms for the presentation of new work onRoman among the mostprestigious international plat The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures is Series and Christians” Pagans World: Natural “The on Fox Lecture to Robin Lane DIVINE THE AND OMENS, ANIMALS, The first lecture, “Cosmos andLandscape,” will AAR Magazine

near Lod, Israel. CE, found in late thirdcentury mosaic fromthe Detail ofaRoman lished by the University of Michigan Press. institutions. The revised lectures are typically pub- American Academy inRome, to bedelivered at both administered by the University of Michigan andthe will heendowed aseriesof lectures to bejointly who lived onCaprifrom 1899 until hisdeath. Inhis American lawyer andalover of Roman history Wolfson History Prize. andConfessionsConversions (2015) won the 2016 world, andthe Greek Dark Age. Hisbook Augustine: Christianity andpaganism inthe Mediterranean studies of Alexander the Great, ancient Macedonia, fortions, which hehas won literary include prizes, both New andExeter Colleges. Hismajor publica- as extraordinary lecturer inancient history for to Fox 2014,Lane now serves asgarden master and ancient history at New College inOxford from 1977 since1970.Times An emeritus fellow andtutor in ten a weekly gardening column for the Financial history at the University of Oxford, hehas writ Alexander the Great. Formerly areader inancient and gardening writer bestknown for his works on used to address it. end of the world andthe perverted natural symbols This lecture will conclude with reflections onthe mic disasters, which are still partof our world today. of natural catastrophes, including volcanic andseis- worldviews. A particular focus will beexplanations prodigiessigns, andmiracles, inpagan andChristian reflect onthe previous two andcompare omensand third andfinal lecture, “SignsandCatastrophes,” will holy meninisolated settings, will beconsidered. The groups’ experience, including martyrs andChristian Christian art. The impact of these views onboth and symbolism of animalsand plants inpagan and Vegetable,” Fox Lane will address the hierarchy endorsed. Inthe secondlecture, “Animal and natural world andthe divine, which Christianity vertical perspective of the relation between the modern theories aboutashift from ahorizontal to over the beasts andthe vegetal world, as well as will alsoinvestigate the dominance of humankind Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an Robin Fox Lane isahistorian of ancient times 1996

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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 2018 McKim Medal Gala Celebrates Sir Antonio Pappano and Roberto Benigni

The American Academy in Rome celebrated its fourteenth annual McKim Medal Gala at the Villa Aurelia in Rome. Over five hundred guests gathered on June 6 to honor two men—the conductor and music director Sir Antonio Pappano and the actor and film director Roberto Benigni—with the McKim Medal for their exceptional contributions to the arts. The Gala, led by Maite Bulgari (Chair) and Federica Tittarelli Cerasi (Co-Chair), began with cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres in the Villa’s famed Lemon Garden, before guests were led into the Secret Garden for a sit-down dinner and the medal presentation. Speakers included Mary Margaret Jones, Chair of the AAR Board of Trustees, Academy President Mark Robbins, and Ms. Bulgari. The honorees were presented by the opera star Renata Scotto and by Paolo Sorrentino, the Academy Award–win- ning film director and screenwriter. The Gala raised over $600,000, with proceeds ben- efiting the Academy’s ongoing public programming in Rome and its continued efforts to nurturing artists and scholars. The primary Corporate Patron for the evening was Moncler SpA. Additional corporate support was provided by: Bloomberg; BonelliErede; Citi; Credit Suisse; Digital Economy Ventures; Dior; Fendi; Fondazione Carla Fendi; Gagosian; Generali; Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners; Giorgio Armani; Green Arrow Capital; Grimaldi Studio Legale; Gucci; Maire Tecnimont SpA; Tiffany & Co. Italia; Tommy Hilfiger; and Valentino SpA. Previous McKim Medal honorees include such luminaries as Renzo Piano, Cy Twombly, Umberto Eco, Franco Zeffirelli, Ennio Morricone, Miuccia Prada, FROM TOP Luigi Ontani, Riccardo Muti, Bernardo Bertolucci, The 2018 McKim Medal honorees: Roberto Benigni (left) and Sir Zaha Hadid, Carlo Petrini, Paolo Sorrentino, Patrizia Antonio Pappano (right); gala chairs and Academy leaders (from left): Maite Bulgari, Federica Tittarelli Cerasi, Mark Robbins, Mary Cavalli, Giorgio Moroder, Dante Ferretti and Margaret Jones, and John Ochsendorf; fashion designer Pierpaolo Francesca Lo Schiavo and Giuseppe Penone. Piccioli (center) and the Valentino team. Photographs by Gerardo Gaetani.

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Fall/Winter 2018 23 Nancy and John Novogrod Stephen Harby, FAAR’00 AAR Patron Members Susan Sellers and Michael Rock, FAAR’00 Lyle A. Harris, FAAR’01 Annabelle Selldorf, FAIA, RAAR’18 Bruce Horten and Aaron Lieber Chairman’s Council Peter F. Smith, FAAR’69 Pin Huang Suzanne Deal Booth Frank Snowden Jr., RAAR’03 IC Bellagio William B. Hart and Constance Eaton Society of American Archivists Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hyman Daniel Solomon and Shirley Sun William Chester Jordan, RAAR’18 Alexander and Jeanne Sloane Ludovica Tosti di Valminuta David A. Kelso Lorraine Kirke President’s Council $1,000–$4,999 George Knight, AIA Judith and David Barrett Anna Addario Giuseppe Lavazza Mr. Craig Dykers, RAAR’15 and Aeffe Group SpA Giampaolo Letta Ms. Elaine Molinar Brad and Brigid Carroll Anderson Lionsgate Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84 Alessia Antinori Julie and John Lippman Dr. Peggy McEvoy Barrington Foundation Amalia Maione Marchini Mr. Tyler Morgan and Mr. Ken Kuchin Jeannette Montgomery Barron and Francesco and Maria Cecilia Merloni Susan and Peter Nitze James D. Barron Floyd Moreland, FAAR’69 Townes Lavidge Osborn and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Beinecke Pietro Musilli Robert S. Marquis Dr. Carol Bentel, FAAR’94 and Steven Nadler Beth K. Pfeiffer Dr. Paul Bentel Nautilus Foundation Anne Jacques Phelps Helen Bing Sadie L. Greenway O’Dea Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Jeffrey Blanchard, FAAR’79 Patrick Oliphant, RAAR’13 and Suzanne Bocanegra, FAAR’91 and Susan Conway David Lang, FAAR’91, RAAR’17 Lauren Hackworth Petersen, FAAR’99 and Mr. and Mrs. Livio Borghese Stephen Petersen Antonio Briguglio John R. Phillips and Linda Douglass Professor Martin Brody, RAAR’02 and Kelly D. Powell, AIA, FAAR’02 Professor Katharine Park Mark Robbins, FAAR’97 Thomas H. Carpenter and C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12 Lynne C. Lancaster, FAAR’02 Janet C. Ross Luigi and Raffaella Chiariello Professor Michele Renee Salzman, Rocco Crimi FAAR’87 Elizabeth V. Day, FAAR’17 Giuseppe and Benedetta Anita de la Rosa Berrizbeitia, FAAR’06 Scassellati Sforzolini Jared Della Valle David N. and Susan Q. Schwartz Sigifredo di Canossa Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Giuseppina Olimpia Irene Di Flumeri Alexander and Jeanne Sloane Vittorio and Mimma Di Paola Sarah Spence, FAAR’82 Judith Di Maio, FAAR’78, RAAR’09, David M. Stone, FAAR’98, RAAR’16 and AFAAR’17, AIA Linda A. Pellecchia, FAAR’92 Dean and Ning Drako Calvin Tsao, RAAR’10 Yohan Benjamin and Nicole Fadlun Soledad Twombly Alessandro and Santa Falez Michele and Elena Valensise Frederick Fisher, FAAR’08 Lorraine and Adam Weinberg Anne H. Fitzpatrick Weiss/Manfredi Architects Ileana Florescu Franchetti Jeremy N. White Crescenzo Gargano, Hotel Santa Caterina Fred D. Wilson Elaine K. Gazda, RAAR’14 Georgia S. Wright Isabella Gherardi Sartori Peter Zumthor, RAAR’08 and Abigail Dorr Gillespie and Hannele Grönlund Nathan Clements-Gillespie Anonymous Richard Gluckman and Tiffany Bell Nana Gregory John W. Haeger

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Fall/Winter 2018 25 CURRENT FELLOWS: 2018–2019 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows

ANCIENT STUDIES ARCHITECTURE Prince Charitable Trusts/ Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Founders Rome Prize MICHAEL JAMES SALTARELLA Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral ERIN BESLER Associate, Michael Van Valkenburgh Rome Prize** Lecturer, Department of Architecture Associates, Cambridge, MA LIANA BRENT and Urban Design, University of Deviant Landscapes: Irregularity and PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, California, Los Angeles; Partner, the Formal Garden Cornell University Besler & Sons Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, The Problem with the Corner Problem LITERATURE Reuse, and Violation in Roman Italy Frances Barker Tracy/Arnold W. Brunner/ John Guare Writer’s Fund Emeline Hill Richardson Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Rome Prize, a gift of Post-Doctoral Rome Prize MARCEL SANCHEZ PRIETO Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman ALLISON L. C. EMMERSON Partner, CRO studio, San Diego and KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Tijuana; Professor, School of Architecture, Assistant Professor, Program in Creative Studies, Tulane University Woodbury University Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, Urbanism on the Margins: Life and Death in Architectural Divides Princeton University the Roman Suburb Nails: A Novel DESIGN Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, Rome Prize Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust ERIC J. KONDRATIEFF Rome Prize BENNETT SIMS Associate Professor, History Department, DYLAN FRACARETA Visiting Assistant Professor, Iowa Writers’ Western Kentucky University Design Director, Museum of Workshop, University of Iowa Tribunes of the Plebs in the Roman Republic Contemporary Art, Chicago Untitled Novel (493–431 BCE) The Trials MEDIEVAL STUDIES Paul Mellon/Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Mark Hampton Rome Prize Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize AMY FRANCESCHINI Donald and Maria Cox/ MARK LETTENEY Artist, San Francisco Samuel H. Kress Foundation PhD Candidate, Department Trust Me, Not if You Are Faint at Heart Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize** of Religion, Princeton University ANNA MAJESKI A New Order of Books in the HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, Theodosian Age New York University Booth Family Rome Prize Visualizing the Cosmos from Lily Auchincloss/Samuel H. Kress JOANNIE BOTTKOL Fourteenth-Century Padua: Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff– Conservator, Historic Architecture, From Francesco da Barberino to Archaeological Institute of America Conservation, and Engineering Center, Giusto de’Menabuoi Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize* Northeast Region, National Park Service VICTORIA C. MOSES An Exploration of the Preservation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation PhD Candidate, School of of Roman Fascist Monuments Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Anthropology, University of Arizona AUSTIN POWELL The Zooarchaeology of Early Rome: Charles K. Williams II Rome Prize PhD Candidate, Department of History, Meat Distribution and Urbanization LORI WONG Catholic University of America (8th–6th Centuries BCE) Project Specialist, Building and Sites Charisma, Community, and Authority: Department, Getty Conservation Institute Dominican Epistolary Practice in Italy, Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Replicated Experiences 1300–1500 SEAN TANDY PhD Candidate, Department of Classical LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Millicent Mercer Johnsen Studies, Indiana University Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Carmina Qui Quondam: Poetry, Identity, and Garden Club of America Rome Prize JOHN F. ROMANO Ideology in Ostrogothic Italy ZANETA HONG Associate Professor, Department of History, Assistant Professor in Landscape Benedictine College Architecture, University of Virginia Tolerance of Liturgical Diversity in Medieval Material Traceability Europe

26 AAR Magazine MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES ITALIAN FELLOWS

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Anthony M. Clark/ Enel Italian Fellow in Architecture, National Endowment for the Humanities Samuel H. Kress Foundation Urban Design, and Landscape Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Architecture FRANCO BALDASSO TALIA DI MANNO ILA BÊKA Assistant Professor of Italian and PhD Candidate, Department of History, Artist and Architectural Filmmaker, Director of the Italian Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley Rome and Paris Division of Languages and Literature, Bard Christian Archaeology in Rome: Piazza Venezia College The Early Church Reborn and New Against Redemption: Literary Dissent Empiricism of the Sacred, 1592–1644 Italian Fellow in Modern Studies during the Transition from Fascism CARMEN BELMONTE to Democracy in Italy Phyllis W. G. Gordan/ Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bibliotheca National Endowment for the Humanities Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Marian and Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Kunstgeschichte, Rome Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize DENIS J.-J. ROBICHAUD Preserving a Controversial Heritage: JIM CARTER Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal The Afterlife of Fascist Art and PhD Candidate, Department of Studies, University of Notre Dame Architecture in Contemporary Italy Romance Languages and Literatures, Marsilio Ficino Editions Project University of Michigan Cy Twombly Italian Fellow in Visual Arts Communities of Labor: Adriano Olivetti and VISUAL ARTS INVERNOMUTO the Redemption of Modernity (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi) Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Artists, Milan Andrew W. Mellon Foundation MICHAEL RAY CHARLES Black Med Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen ALESSANDRA CIUCCI Distinguished Professor of Painting, School Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Houston Italian Fellow in Visual Arts of Music, Columbia University Images of the Blacks and Crocodiles RENATO LEOTTA Resonances of the Rural across the Artist, Turin Mediterranean: Music, Sound, and Migrant Abigail Cohen Rome Prize The Space between Earth and Sky Moroccan Men in Italy SZE TSUNG NICOLÁS LEONG Photographer, Los Angeles Italian Fellow in Medieval Studies MUSICAL COMPOSITION . . . Urbis et Orbis Idem FRANCESCO LOVINO Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Elliott Carter Rome Prize Jules Guerin/Harold M. English/ Masaryk University, Brno MICHELLE LOU Miss Edith Bloom Fund Rome Prize Byzantine Imagery and the Modern Visiting Lecturer, Department of Music, HELEN O’LEARY Beholder: The 1905 Esposizione di arte Dartmouth College Professor of Art, School of Visual Arts, italo-bizantina at Grottaferrata Hybrid Performance System Pennsylvania State University Safe House Italian Fellow in Literature Luciano Berio Rome Prize VIRGINIA VIRILLI JESSIE MARINO Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize Writer, Rome Adjunct Faculty, Department of Sound, KARYN OLIVIER The Flamboyants School of the Art Institute of Chicago Associate Professor and Program Live Performance Project: “The Vanity Head for Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Tiffany & Co. Italian Fellow in Design of Small Differences” Temple University FRANCESCO ZORZI Histories Converse Visual Designer and Illustrator, Amsterdam Jesse Howard Jr./ Macula Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell Rome Prize BASIL TWIST Artistic Director, Dream Music Puppetry Program, HERE Arts Center, New York * year one of a two-year fellowship Eros Anima ** year two of a two-year fellowship

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Kyle Pierce became the new head chef since the bread is a triangular piece of deli- something great coming, attracting a wide of the Rome Sustainable Food Project ciously crispy pizza bianca, stuffed from one range of international artists. When the side with traditional fillings such as polpette weather is good, you can’t beat hearing a in summer 2018. Here he shares his al sugo, pollo alla cacciatora, or melanzane concert at the outdoor concert stage. favorite places in Rome. alla parmigiana. I prefer the Piazza Trilussa location, where you can take it to go or 5 1 sit down and enjoy it with a craft beer or LITRO VINERIA MERCATO DI CAMPAGNA AMICA DEL interesting wine. Via Fratelli Bonnet, 5 CIRCO MASSIMO Just around the corner from the Academy Via di S. Teodoro, 74 3 is one of Rome’s best wine bars. Serving This is central Rome’s weekend farmers VILLA ADA all-natural wine—and with great food Entrances at Via Salaria, Via di Ponte Salario, market. Led by Coldiretti, a national options as well—Litro is the perfect place to Via di Monte Antenne, and Via Panama organization that promotes local farmers, try some of Italy’s funky wines. it features everything—produce, meat, When I’m looking for another park besides seafood, bread, salumi, and cheese—from Villa Doria Pamphili to go running, walking, 6 producers around Rome. There is even a or have a picnic in, I head to Villa Ada. It’s LAGO DI BRACCIANO rotation every week to a different farm, with great on a weekend to go and spend the Bracciano, Lazio traditional dishes that you can order, then afternoon relaxing. During the summer, a To escape the city, I love to head to Lago grab a glass of wine and enjoy in their back- free concert series takes place here as well! di Bracciano just north of Rome. It’s easily patio area. accessible by train leaving from Quattro 4 2 Venti station. The town of Bracciano is AUDITORIUM PARCO DELLA MUSICA beautiful and medieval, with great lakeside TRAPIZZINO Via Pietro de Coubertin, 30 restaurants. If you have a car I would Piazza Trilussa, 46 For music concerts and performances, recommend going to Trevignano as well, Here is the perfect place to stop and grab as well as the Rome International Film and to one of my favorite restaurants, La a small sandwich anytime of the day. This Festival, I love going to the Auditorium just Casina Bianca. is unlike any normal sandwich, however, north of Piazza del Popolo. There is always

28 AAR Magazine Founded in 1894, the American Academy in Rome is the oldest American AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME overseas center for independent study and advanced research in BOARD OF TRUSTEES the arts and humanities. A not-for-profit, privately funded institu- Sir David Adjaye, RAAR’16 tion, the Academy awards the Rome Prize to a select group of artists Laurie Anderson, RAAR’06 Alessia Antinori and scholars annually, after an application process that begins each Pierpaolo Barzan fall. The winners, selected by independent juries through a national Cynthia L. Beck competition process, are invited to Rome the following year to Susanna Borghese pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and Jim Brennan Martin Brody, RAAR’02 artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange. Awards are Cary J. Davis, Chair-Elect offered in the following categories: Literature, Music Composition, Sharon Davis Visual Arts, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Mary E. Frank Historic Preservation and Conservation, as well as Ancient, Medieval, Ginevra Elkann Gaetani Lyle Ashton Harris, FAAR’01 Renaissance and Early Modern, and Modern Italian Studies. The Walter J. Hood, FAAR’97, RAAR’14 Academy also invites a select group of Residents, Affiliated Fellows, Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98, Chair and Visiting Artists and Scholars to work together within this excep- David I. Kertzer, RAAR’00 tional community in Rome. David A. Lang, FAAR’91, RAAR’17 Thom Mayne William B. McGurn III Fondata nel 1894, l’American Academy in Rome è il più antico centro amer- Roberto A. Mignone icano fuori dagli Stati Uniti dedicato allo studio indipendente e alla Simon D. Mordant AM ricerca avanzata nelle arti e nelle discipline umanistiche. L’Accademia Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09 Nancy Novogrod è un’istituzione senza scopo di lucro finanziata grazie all’appoggio di John Ochsendorf, FAAR’08, Director* privati che offre ogni anno la borsa di studio Rome Prize a un gruppo James J. Pallotta di artisti e studiosi. Il processo di selezione è affidato a un concorso John R. Phillips nazionale negli Stati Uniti che prende avvio in autunno e che si avvale Kelly D. Powell, FAAR’02* Jessie H. Price della valutazione di giurie indipendenti: i vincitori sono invitati a Francine C. Prose, RAAR’06 Roma a condurre il proprio lavoro in un’atmosfera di libertà intel- Mark Robbins, FAAR’97, President* lettuale e artistica e di scambio interdisciplinare. La borsa di studio Michael Rock, FAAR’00 premia persone che operano nelle arti (architettura, architettura John F. W. Rogers, Vice Chair C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12, Vice Chair del paesaggio, arti visive, composizione musicale, conservazione e Michele R. Salzman, FAAR’87, RAAR’08** restauro dei beni storico-artistici, design e letteratura) e nelle Louisa Stude Sarofim discipline umanistiche (studi classici, medievali, sul Rinascimento Frank M. Snowden, RAAR’03 e sulla prima età moderna, e sull’Italia moderna). L’Accademia, David M. Stone, FAAR’98, RAAR’16 Robert Storr inoltre, invita a Roma alcuni prestigiosi esponenti delle arti e degli Calvin Tsao, RAAR’10 studi umanistici (Residenti), borsisti scelti in collaborazione con Adam D. Weinberg altre importanti istituzioni e un selezionato gruppo di altri artisti e Charles K. Williams II studiosi a unirsi e a lavorare insieme ai Borsisti all’interno della Tod C. Williams, FAAR’83 Fred D. Wilson nostra eccezionale comunità. LIFE TRUSTEE

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COVER Performance view of Filament Fragment 2 by Ashley Fure in the front garden of the American Academy in Rome during Open Studios in June 2018. Fure’s collaborators were Brandon Clifford (megaphone design), Yi Zhao (lighting design), Lilleth Glimcher (associate director), and Lester St. Louis (assistant producer). Photograph by Altrospazio.