AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2017 FALL/WINTER 2017

Welcome to the Fall/Winter 2017 issue UP FRONT IN CLOSING of AAR Magazine. 2 26 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT CONVIVIUM This issue of AAR Magazine introduces our new New York Gala director and features several artists and scholars 4 from our diverse and expansive community. This FAR AFIELD 27 year’s overarching theme of East and West is repre- Checking in with Fellows and Residents DONORS sented in the varied programming and events con- ducted by AAR in Rome and the United States—and 6 30 in the ways Fellows and Residents cross between ROMAN NUMERALS CURRENT FELLOWS and redefine disciplines that once seemed wholly AAR’s Photographic Archive by the numbers 2017–2018 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows distinct and fixed. 7 32 IN RESIDENCE WHEN IN ROME Vi diamo il benvenuto al Spotlighting recent Residents Mellon Professor Lindsay Harris shares favorite places in Rome numero Autunno/Inverno 2017 16 dell’AAR Magazine. FROM THE ARCHIVES Hammons Questo numero dell’AAR Magazine presenta il nostro nuovo direttore e alcuni degli artisti e studiosi che 17 compongono la nostra comunità, ampia e variegata. CONVERSATIONS/ CONVERSAZIONI Il tema complessivo di quest’anno, East and West, Here and there sarà declinato nell’ambito della programmazione e degli eventi proposti dalla AAR a Roma e negli Stati Uniti, secondo le modalità che i Fellows e i Residents FEATURES tracceranno nell’intersecare e ridefinire discipline che una volta sembravano completamente distinte 18 e indipendenti. THE CHANGING IDENTITY OF A SOUTHERN ITALIAN TOWN Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata highlights one of the oldest crossroads in the Mediterranean in the modern imagination

22 NOW HERE IS NOWHERE A new exhibition in New York brings together Fellows’ work from both sides of the Atlantic

24 THE POLITICAL POWER OF SACRED TEXTS Scholars convene to discuss the role of religion in politics today and throughout history

AAR Magazine LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT:

L’autunno è sempre fonte di nuovi inizi all’Academy i e in questo 2017 lo è stato più che mai con la nomina Follow @aarpresident on Instagram for del Direttore John Ochsendorf, che ha cominciato il up-to-the-minute images of all that’s suo incarico insieme ai vincitori dell’ultima edizione happening with AAR.

del Rome Prize, anche loro animati dalla medesima OPPOSITE energia intellettuale e dallo stesso ottimismo. La AAR President Mark Robbins (right), with stagione segna inoltre l’avvio del tema scelto per landscape architects Gary Hilderbrand quest’anno dalla AAR, East and West, che culminerà (1995 Fellow and 2017 Resident) and Mary Margaret Jones (1998 Fellow and a maggio con una mostra di opere dell’artista resi- Chair of the Board of Trustees) at ASLA dente Yto Barrada. 2017, where Gary received the ASLA L’Academy prosegue nel suo impegno a favore Design Medal. dei Fellows e dei Residents della nostra comunità Photo courtesy of Mark Robbins. Each fall at the Academy is full of new beginnings. e nell’ampliare la sfera delle loro attività. Tra le #mckimmedal #gala #aviewofonesown #universityofpennsylvania June 7, 2017 September 7, 2017 This has been especially true in 2017 with the arrival iniziative più recenti si annoverano una borsa di of Director John Ochsendorf, who entered his first studio italiana istituita dalla Fondazione Sviluppo e full year with the current Rome Prize winners, Crescita CRT, una borsa di studio in collaborazione similarly filled with fresh intellectual energy and con la Terra Foundation for American Art, e una optimism. The season also marks the inauguration residenza sostenuta dalla Robert Mapplethorpe of this year’s theme at AAR: East and West. The finale Foundation. of this theme will be an exhibition of Resident Yto Le mostre e i programmi vengono ora regolar- Barrada’s work in May. mente riproposti in altre città, sia in Italia sia all’es- The Academy continues to enhance support for tero. A settembre la nostra mostra A View of One’s the Fellows and Residents of our community and Own ha inaugurato alla Arthur Ross Gallery della to extend the reach of their work. Recent initia- University of Pennsylvania. Matera Imagined/Matera tives include an Italian fellowship established by Immaginata, inaugurata a Roma in ottobre, si spos- Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, an affiliated terà proprio a Matera durante l’inverno. A novembre, fellowship in partnership with the Terra Foundation l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York ha ospitato #fellows #families #newyear #romesustainablefoodproject #anniversary for American Art, and an endowed residency made la mostra Now Here Is Nowhere: Six Artists from the September 13, 2017 October 23, 2017 possible by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. American Academy. Exhibitions and programs are now regularly sent Un tale livello di eccellenza e un tale numero di to other cities in and abroad. In September, attività non potrebbero essere portati avanti senza our exhibition A View of One’s Own opened at the il continuo supporto dei nostri Trustees, donatori, University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery. Fellows, Residents, visitatori e amici. Vi ringraziamo Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata, which debuted dei vostri contributi e di esservi ricordati dell’AAR in Rome in October, travels to Matera itself this anche quest’anno e auguriamo a tutti un inverno winter. In November, Now Here Is Nowhere: Six Artists fruttuoso e un meraviglioso anno nuovo. from the American Academy premiered at New York’s Italian Cultural Institute. Maintaining excellence at the Academy and this robust level of activity requires the ongoing support of our Trustees, donors, Fellows, Residents, visitors, #italianculturalinstitute #patronstour #gala #tonykushner #davidkertzer and friends. Thank you for including the AAR in your November 7, 2017 (see p. 22) November 9, 2017 (see p. 26) charitable giving this year, and we wish all a produc- tive winter and great new year ahead. Mark Robbins, President and CEO

2 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 3 FAR AFIELD: Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Malcolm X: Complete Critically acclaimed sculptor and author Barbara Chase-Riboud (1958 Affiliated Fellow) creates with a deep under- standing of history, identity, and place. The recipient of a John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship to study at the American Stephen Greenblatt Traces Academy in Rome in 1957, she had a Paradise Lost her first European exhibitions the next year at the Academy and In The Rise and Fall of Adam and at Galleria L’Obelisco. Eve, released this fall, Stephen Her plan to make a group of Greenblatt (2010 Resident) com- steles in homage to slain civil Michelangelo Buonarroti, Studies for the Three Labors of Hercules, ca. 1530, red chalk, bines rigorous scholarship with 10 11/16 × 16 5/8 in., Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017. rights leader Malcolm X began compelling storytelling in a book in 1969, and she completed and that is “almost dizzying in its exhibited four works in the series scope.” According to Michael in 1969–1970. Decades later she Schaub of NPR Books, the author returned to the project, and Carmen Bambach draws from “history, religion, art, produced 16 more steles between and science” and “writes about 2003 and 2016. This fall Michael all of these fields with infectious and Michaelangelo Rosenfeld Gallery presented enthusiasm.” Michaelangelo: Divine Draftsmen and drawings still speak with Barbara Chase-Riboud—Malcolm Cogan University Professor and Designer, on view at the an arresting power today. Five Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile, X: Complete, an exhibition fea- John Ochsendorf Is of the Humanities at Harvard Metropolitan Museum of Art in hundred years seem to melt away he also served as the lead curator turing 14 of these major works. University, Stephen previously New York through February 12, is in looking at his art.” for the traveling exhibition Although the artist, who is now in AAR’s New Director brought his signature blend one of the most anticipated and A specialist in Italian Palaces for the People: Guastavino her eighties, considers the series of erudition and accessibility acclaimed current exhibitions Renaissance art and curator of and America’s Great Public Spaces. complete, her dedication to the A structural engineer with a to The Swerve: How the World anywhere. Carmen Bambach (1994 Italian and Spanish drawing The Class of 1942 Professor work undertaken by Malcolm X wealth of practical and theoreti- Became Modern, which won the Fellow) organized the stunning at the Met, Carmen has previ- of Architecture and Civil and and other leaders reminds us that cal interests, John Ochsendorf (2008 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 show, which Holland Cotter ously assembled exhibitions of Environmental Engineering at the global struggle for human Fellow) became director of the National Book Award, and the of the New York Times calls “a drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, MIT, he is a founding partner of and civil rights is far from over. American Academy in Rome in bestselling Will in the World: How curatorial coup” and “an art Filippino Lippi, Bronzino, and the consultancy firm Ochsendorf, This exhibition not only helps July. John collaborates with art Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. historical tour de force.” Carmen Correggio and Parmigianino. DeJong and Block. preserve the memory of Malcolm historians, architects, engineers, This time, he delves into has curated the exhibition to “The Academy is one of the X but also acknowledges the and designers on endeavors creation myths that predate, and reveal connections between the most vibrant scholarly and push for global justice that he including the structural safety of perhaps prefigure, the biblical Renaissance master’s practice creative communities anywhere continues to inspire. historic monuments, the devel- story of Adam and Eve, as well as of drawings and the many other in the world,” he noted on his opment of sustainable infrastruc- countless religious commentaries facets of his creative life. As well appointment as director. “This is ture, and such projects as the and literary or artistic interpre- as 133 drawings the show features an exciting time for AAR and I am Armadillo Vault at the 2016 Venice tations. “I tend to be omnivorous,” three of Michaelangelo’s marble humbled to be entrusted with the Biennale of Architecture. he told the Globe in 2014. sculptures, his earliest painting, stewardship of the next chapter He was named a MacArthur “I try not to squelch my curiosity.” his wood architectural model for in its distinguished history.” Fellow for his pioneering work Such omnivorous curiosity doubt- a chapel vault, and works by a using comparative cultural and less has enriched not only his writ- number of his artistic associates. historical studies to explore ing and teaching but also his time As she notes, “this selection of John Ochsendorf contributed to the Barbara Chase-Riboud with Malcolm #15, pre-industrial engineering Armadillo Vault at the Venice Biennale at the Academy, where he was the #16 and #17 at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, more than 200 works will show

traditions. Author of Guastavino of Architecture, 2016. Renaissance Scholar-in-Residence. Delin. Iwan Baan; Greenblatt: photo © Stephanie Mitchell; Chase-Riboud: by Grant Ochsendorf: photo by May 2017. that Michelangelo’s imagery

4 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 5 ROMAN NUMERALS: IN RESIDENCE:

Each year, distinguished artists and i The Photographic Archive of the American Academy in Check aarome.org/events Rome encompasses specialized collections of photo- scholars from around the world are for information on graphs on archaeology, architecture, art, landscape invited to the Academy as Residents. upcoming events with architecture, and gardens, as well as special collections the Residents. important to the history of the Academy. During their stay, Residents live and work as part 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 90K 150 Residents for this fall/winter. images years covered by the collection

34K 1866 Nader Tehrani Nasser Rabbat William Powell images digitized and available online date of oldest objects in the archives: collodion glass p. 8 p. 9 p. 10

at dhc.aarome.org plates in the Parker Collection (1866–1879) Cosmopolis , Scribner. 25K 2727 images digitized in the last few years alone cellulose nitrate negatives, vintage prints, and modern Yusef Komunyakaa Yto Barrada Gary Hilderbrand prints in the Van Deman Collection (1898–1930) p. 11 p. 12 p. 13

10K additional images scheduled to be digitized in the next two years

Don DeLillo William Chester Jordan Jeanne Gang p. 14 p. 15 see Spring 2016 issue Komunyakaa: © Laren McClung 2017; Tehrani: Leo Sorel, Courtesy of the Cooper Union; DeLillo: photo by Joyce Ravid, by Joyce Leo Sorel, Courtesy of the Cooper Union; DeLillo: photo Tehrani: Komunyakaa: © Laren McClung 2017;

6VI AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 7 Nasser Rabbat Louis Kahn Scholar in Residence, December 2017–February 2018

As an architect and historian, Nasser Rabbat’s work explores the history of Islamic architec- ture, art, and cultures. His talk at the Academy with designer Nader Tehrani will highlight the concept of “fluidity” as it relates to Syrian architectural heritage. Having written extensively Three schools of TOP RIGHT architecture under Daniels Faculty on political and cultural issues construction. of Architecture, in the Islamic world in English, Landscape and Design Arabic, and French, Nasser brings ABOVE at the University an international perspective on The Hinman of Toronto. Research Building architecture to the AAR commu- at Georgia Tech. BOTTOM RIGHT nity. “I teach Islamic architecture, The Melbourne and I am committed to two peda- School of Design gogical philosophies: the humanis- at the University of Melbourne. tic basis of modern education and the power of art and culture in bringing people together” (MIT’s The Tech). His lecture courses explore various facets of Islamic Nader Tehrani of material systems, so this will Southern France, a mixed-use TOP architecture and his seminars Julianus Basilica, be an opportunity to historicize development for MIT, and a new William A. Bernoudy Architect in cover the history of Islamic urban- Brad, “Dead Residence, November 2017–January 2018 some of that work.” addition to the University of ism, contemporary cities, oriental- Cities” Region, While at the Academy, he Toronto’s school of architecture, Syria, 399–402, ism, historiography, and the issue Nader Tehrani’s Residency will plans to travel to the Roman ruins landscape, and design. Nader is where the shrine of meaning in architecture. In his be reminiscent of the semester of Orange, Avignon, and other a founding principal of NADAAA of Saint Maron, research and teaching, he pres- the founder of the he spent in Rome while he was a areas in Provence. In January, and dean of the Irwin S. Chanin ents architecture’s relationship to Maronite Church, student at Rhode Island School Nader will join architectural School of Architecture at The is located. culture and society as well as the of Design (RISD), which he recalls scholar Nasser Rabbat in conver- Cooper Union. role of human agency in shaping MIDDLE gave him a foundational under- sation to discuss “fluidity” as that interplay. Facade of the East standing of the Roman urban a paradigm for understanding Nasser contributes to a number Church, Baqirha, context. “It will also be an oppor- the built environment of the 546 CE. of Arabic publications, serves on tunity to undertake some analyti- Mediterranean as part of AAR’s the boards of various cultural and BOTTOM cal work of material and building series New Work in the Arts & educational organizations, and is Street Facade of systems that are germane to the Humanities: East and West. the Aga Khan Professor and the the Mosque of Ancients,” he notes. “My area During his stay, he will also Umm al-Sultan Director of the Aga Khan Program of concentration over the past continue working on several Sha’ban, Cairo, for Islamic Architecture at MIT. 1368–69.

20 years has been on a variety projects, including a house in MacCallum. Clockwise from top left: Peter Bennetts; Jonathan Hillyer;

8 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 9 A page from “Ish-Scoodah,” Richard Powell Yusef’s in-progress oratorio James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence, on Edmonia Lewis. September–November 2017

Art historian Richard Powell spent his time at the Academy following the tracks of Rome- based, African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis and traversing the terrain in which she lived and made art. He mirrored Lewis’s visits to the opera and museums to better understand what these experiences meant for her work. He spoke about Lewis’s sculpture The Death of Cleopatra, as well as Trieste-based Italian sculptor Francesco Pezzicar’s The Abolition of Slavery in his lec- ture at AAR. He also worked on a book project on visual satire and found Rome to be a great place for researching irony, parody, and early Latin. “Being surrounded by classicists, poets, and other scholars informed my research and broadened my perspective on art history.” One such occur- rence was a dinner conversation he had with a musicologist whose work focused on the representa- tion of women in early 18th- and 19th-century opera, which Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef spent his time at the ranges from the black experience linked back to Lewis’s The Death William B. Hart Poet in Residence, Academy refining an oratorio on to rural Southern life before the of Cleopatra. September–November 2017 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Civil Rights era to his experi- Richard is currently the Dean Lewis, who spent much of her ences during the Vietnam War. of the Humanities and the John Originally from Louisiana, poet working life in Rome—and who Spencer Bassett Professor of Art Yusef Komunyakaa received his was also the focus of art historian & Art History at Duke University. introduction to the power of Richard Powell during his concur- language through his grandpar- rent residency. Komunyakaa ents, by observing how “the sound noted that “the intellectual dis- TOP AND MIDDLE Edmonia Lewis’s marble statue of the Old Testament informed course and aesthetic atmosphere” The Death of Cleopatra, 1876; the cadences of their speech” he witnessed during his time at and Lewis, circa 1870. (Poetry Foundation). In his poetry, the Academy helped inspire new Komunyakaa weaves together work, and the experience has RIGHT Francesco Pezzicar’s bronze personal narrative with jazz continued to resonate with him statue The Abolition of Slavery of the Historical Society Forest Park, Illinois, 1994.17. : Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift rhythms and vernacular language. even after his return home. in the United States, 1873. Having served in the Vietnam War Komunyakaa is a professor as a correspondent, his work high- of Creative Writing at New York

Death of Cleopatra Death lights life in peace and in war. University. His subject matter

10 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 11 Yto Barrada Gary Hilderbrand Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence, Mercedes T. Bass Landscape September–October 2017 Architect in Residence, September–November 2017 Yto Barrada’s work revolves around the politics and culture of Gary Hilderbrand is returning her hometown, Tangier, Morocco. to the Academy as a Resident She began her academic career more than 20 years after his studying political science and Fellowship there in 1995. “It feels later explored photography as great to look back, and to look well as film, sculpture, and instal- ahead while reveling in both the lation art. In her current work, continuity and the differences,” Yto contrasts images portrayed he says. by the tourism industry with the Gary’s primary project during experiences of Moroccan this residency has been explor- natives. Although Morocco has ing Rome’s remarkable urban been independent for fifty years, forest of London Planetrees and as she writes in Cabinet Magazine, speculating about how living “there are no flâneurs here, and infrastructure will define human no innocent bystanders” follow- comfort and well-being in the ing Tangier’s modernization. “My city of the future. He will discuss work attempts in part to exorcise this evolution in the way land- the unspoken violence of other scape architecture shapes cities people’s departures. I too left today in a lecture at the Academy. Tangier for more than ten years. But his return to Rome has

By moving back, I have placed also been an opportunity for less ABOVE, FROM TOP BELOW myself amidst the violence of structured contemplaton. “It’s Long Dock Park, Poetry Foundation, homecoming.” a secret path to freedom for a Beacon, NY; Chicago, IL. A talk by Yto kicked off the few weeks’ time,” he says, as he Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Academy’s 2017–18 theme East spends his days in Rome reading, MA. and West as she discussed her writing, walking, and absorbing work on Morocco in a conver- the experience. sation with MAXXI curator Gary is founder and principal Bartolomeo Pietromarchi. Her of Reed Hilderbrand LLC and a projects have been exhibited professor at Harvard Graduate at Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre School of Design. Among Reed Pompidou, and Cinémathèque de Hilderbrand’s notable projects Tanger, the first cinema cultural are a 140-acre campus for the center in north Africa, for which Clark Art Institute and the land- she served as founding director. scape for the American Museum The Academy will also present a of Natural History’s Gilder single-artist exhibition of her new Center—a collaboration with work on the East and West theme architect Jeanne Gang, who is also a next spring. resident at the Academy this year. His books and other writing have Untitled (North African Toys demonstrated the importance Series © Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, c. 1930s), of landscape architecture in bal- 2014–2015. ancing intellectual and cultural traditions with contemporary forces of urbanization.

12 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 13 Don DeLillo William Chester Jordan His two main projects have juror for medieval studies. The been researching for his lecture Dayton-Stockton Professor of Writer in Residence, December 2017 Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence, September–October 2017 King Louis IX and Other Converts, History at Princeton University, which explores the king’s interest he has also counted many AAR In Don DeLillo’s 2007 novel American medievalist William and actions in promoting conver- Fellows among his students and Falling Man—which explores Chester Jordan has focused much sions of Muslims to the Catholic former students. the aftermath of 9/11—a post- of his scholarship on northwest- faith, and preparing for his up- card sent from Rome makes an ern . As a Resident, he coming book on public service in important cameo appearance. has embraced the opportunity the European high Middle Ages. The postcard pictures the cover to research in Rome and explore William’s studies and pub- of The Revolt of Islam, a poem new ideas, some sparked by lications have centered on the by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This win- AAR’s East and West theme this Crusades, English constitutional ter, DeLillo comes to AAR for a season. “It’s been wonderful history, gender, economics, and residency and to be the keynote getting to know other scholars in church-state relations in the speaker for The Revolt of Islam: different disciplines and hearing thirteenth and fourteenth centu- Texts, Subtexts, and Contexts, an feedback from people outside ries. He is the former president interdisiplinary conference that of the field of medieval studies,” of the Medieval Academy of explores the history and context he says. America and a past Rome Prize of the poem as well as its reso- nance today. His novels, plays, and essays cover an expansive scope of topics, reflecting the wide range of disciplines of the Academy’s residency program. He noted in an interview with the Chicago Tribune that his writing presents themes that address how we are currently “living in dangerous times.” He explains that “writ- ing is a concentrated form of thinking… A young writer sees that with words and sentences Falling Man (2007), on a piece of paper that costs The Angel of less than a penny he can place Esmeralda: Nine himself more clearly in the world” Stories (2011), Zero K (2016), and (The Paris Review). Underworld (1997). The author of fifteen novels, William Chester he has received the National Jordan in his studio at AAR, and just one Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner of his many books. Award for Fiction, and the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, among other honors.

14 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 15 FROM THE ARCHIVES: CONVERSATIONS/CONVERSAZIONI:

This fall, AAR continues its signature series of events, Conversations/ Conversazioni, which convenes leading scholars, artists, designers, writ- Here and ers, and composers for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities. This season includes events in Rome, New York, and Chicago, cov- David Hammons there ering such personal topics as migration, home, landscape, and history. David Hammons is best known Some of this year’s events are part of AAR’s year-long exploration of as an LA- and New York-based the theme East and West, which will consider the relationship between artist, but in 1990, he live in Europe and the Islamic world. Rome. And while much of his “With new methodological avenues at our disposal, how do we work has focused on race, understand the relationship between East and West today?” said Mark class, and commodification in Robbins, AAR President (and 1997 Fellow). “We’re a gathering place for American life, as a Fellow at AAR, international scholars and artists at the center of the Mediterranean. he turned his penetrating eye That puts AAR in a special position to support discussions like these.” on Rome. His sculpture Roman The Foundation is the 2017–2018 season sponsor. Homeless (1990) still disarms critics: a piece of worn drapery evokes not the ruins of Rome but

a tender portrait of a homeless REVERSE FLOW THE WORLD IS OLD, HISTORY IS NEW woman’s head. Yto Barada & Catherine Chin, Eleanor Gorski, While in Rome, Hammons Bartolomeo Pietromarchi Dan Hurlin, Thomas Kelley, Thomas also had the opportunity to September 26 in Rome Leslie, Thompson Mayes, Catie engage more deeply with the When we leave home, what happens to Newell, and Catherine Wagner Italian contemporary art move- those left behind? Artist Yto Barrada (2017 November 18 in Chicago Resident) discussed issues of mobility and ment Arte Povera, an influence What does the past offer us? What does isolation in her hometown, Tangier, with it mean for visual and material culture he’s long acknowledged. And MAXXI curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi. in 1993, The American Academy today? Nine former Fellows—a classical scholar, a preservationist, a puppet artist, in Rome mounted a dual exhibi- an architect, an architectural historian, tion of Hammons’ work and and two artists—talk about how they think that of the movement’s master, about history and incorporate it into Jannis Kounellis. their work. Following his Fellowship, Hammons returned to his work in : Courtesy the artist and Van Doren Waxter, New York. Doren Waxter, Van artist and Nowhere : Courtesy the Now Here is New York. (Harlem, he has said, IMAGINING THE VEGETAL CITY: Jackie Saccoccio. Portrait (Invisible 11) is as rich in ruins as Rome.) But THE SURFACE IS ALIVE (2017). Oil and mica on linen, 30 × 24 in. the connections he forged at AAR Gary Hilderbrand & Alberto Iacovoni October 31 in Rome NOW HERE IS NOWHERE remain. Just last year, Kounellis Carl D’Alvia, Tomaso De Luca, How does landscape affect urban living? wrote a catalogue essay for Jackie Saccoccio, & Nari Ward Hammons’s first major survery Landscape architect Gary Hildebrand (1995 Fellow, 2017 Resident) and archi- November 16 in New York exhibition in Europe, Give Me tect Alberto Iacovoni discussed how living What comes from cross-Atlantic cross- a Moment. infrastructure defines cities today. overs? AAR’s fall exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Now Here is David Hammons (left) Nowhere (see p. 22), presents a creative and Jannis Kounellis dialogue between artists on two sides of (right) in the gardens of the Atlantic, exploring how parallel ideas Villa Aurelia for the open- are articulated in different places—and ing of their exhibition how new visions are forged by their inter- at AAR in 1993. Martha section. Four recent Fellows whose work is Boyden (center) wrote featured in the exhibition took the stage to

the catalogue. Cty: photo by Gary Hilderbrand; Reverse Flow: Deutsche Bank; Imagining the Vegetal discuss their perspectives.

16 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 17 Emmet Gowin. Matera (1980). Gelatin silver print, 28 × 36 cm. Courtesy of Emmet Gowin and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York. © Emmet Gowin. THE CHANGING IDENTITY OF A SOUTHERN ITALIAN CITY

The exhibition Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata highlights the transformation of Matera, one of the oldest crossroads in the Mediterranean, in the modern imagination.

Matera, located in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, has long fascinated scholars, archae- ologists, anthropologists, and historians of art and architecture. In the 20th century, it also became notorious for its distinctive landscape of ancient cave dwellings, known as the “Sassi.” In the post-

18 19 Mario Carbone. Matera, Italy (1970s). Gelatin silver print, 20.5 × 31.3 cm. Archivio Fotografico Mario Carbone.

Fosco Maraini. Ragazzi di Matera (c. 1950, printed 2017). Gelatin silver print, 30 × 40 cm. , © Fratelli Alinari.

Dan Weiner. Mario Cresci. Matera, Italy Rotazione Matera (1954, printed (1971, printed 2017). Gelatin 2010). Giclee silver print, print, 97.5 × 50 38 × 25.5 cm. cm (framed). International Center of Courtesy of the artist, Photography, Museum © Mario Cresci. Purchase, International Fund for Concerned Photography, 1974. ©John Broderick.

war period, Matera became a symbol of southern in public policy, land reform, and social change. Cartier-Bresson, Esther Bubley, Luigi Ghirri, Emmet discuss not only the exhibited photographs and Italian poverty and backwardness. Today, just over More recently, photographers have explored Gowin, David Seymour (Chim), and Carrie Mae Matera’s continuing appeal to photographers and a generation later, Matera has emerged as a model Matera through concepts ranging from memory and Weems. It is now on view through February 4, 2018 filmmakers but also the archaeology, architecture, of authenticity and has been selected as a UNESCO perception to identity and heritage preservation. at Palazzo Lanfranchi, the Museo nazionale d’arte and social history of the city, as well as shifting World Heritage Site and a European Capital of Throughout, Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata medievale e moderna della Basilicata, in Matera, as meanings of “Mediterranean,” as a place and an Culture for 2019. makes plain our shifting notions of “progress” and one of the events preparing for the city’s year as a idea. With this kaleidoscopic view, the exhibition The exhibition, which debuted at American celebrates the capacity of photography to change European Capital of Culture. Other venues are cur- and catalogue deftly reflect AAR’s mission to con- Academy in Rome this fall, investigates the role of how we see the world. rently under consideration. nect the past with the contemporary in the arts photography in shaping the image of the city. In Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata was curated The exhibition is accompanied by an extensively and humanities. the postwar period, photography helped to estab- by Lindsay Harris (2014 Fellow), Andrew W. Mellon illustrated catalogue that further illuminates the lished Matera as a quintessential place untouched Professor-in-Charge of Humanities, and features complex image of Matera the exhibition presents. by time but also crucially influenced developments works by celebrated photographers including Henri Essays by the curator and five additional scholars

20 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 21 Installationa view Artists and scholars play an essential role within showing Jackie Saccoccio’s contemporary culture. Casting an eye toward the Portrait (Invisible past and the future, they often provide a critical 11) (2017), voice, which helps us to see ourselves differently Tomaso De Luca’s in the present moment. Their work can offer a F&F (2016), and Eugenio Tibaldi’s counterpoint to our personal histories, linking these Architettura min- to the increasingly complex culture in which we live; ima (2017). one that is increasingly global and interconnected beyond national boundaries. The range of the work in this exhibition, by three artists from the United States and three from Italy, expresses in different ways concerns that are human and universal, creat- ing bridges between countries and cultures. This kind of interchange has been part of the life at the American Academy in Rome since its inception in 1894. The Academy’s community brings together artists and scholars across disciplines in an increasingly international mix in relation to the profound depth of the city of Rome. While at AAR, they all inevitably confront history and its relationship to contemporary life. This exhibition is a result of this type of thinking and evolved from the Cinque Mostre, an annual program that presents the work of Academy artists and scholars organized, as is this show, by Italian curators, and so offering different perspectives on work from the Academy The Academy is ever more engaged in collabo- rations between disciplines and between institu- tions, both academic and cultural. With Now Here Is Nowhere, we are delighted to partner with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and to bring work previously seen in Rome to new viewers in the United States. We warmly thank collabora- NOW HERE tor and host Giorgio Van Straten, curator Christian Caliandro, and the wonderfully talented artists, for this important venture, which brings new creative work to broader audiences.

TOP BOTTOM Giuseppe Stampone. Installation view IS Welcome to showing Nari Gransasso (2017). Ward’s Breathing Bic pen on wood, 14 Plan -4° (2016). × 11.4 × 1.6 in. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New Courtesy of Fondazione Mavina York and Hong Kong. Menegaz, Castelbasso (TE).

MIDDLE NOWHERE Carl D’Alvia. Patches (2015). Bronze, AAR’s new exhibition in New York brings together 12 × 7 × 19 in. Courtesy the artist and Nathalie Fellows’ work from both sides of the Atlantic. Karg Gallery, New York. Saccoccio: Courtesy the artist and Van Doren Waxter, New York; Tibaldi: Courtesy the artist and Umberto Di Marino Gallery, Naples. Courtesy the artist and Umberto Di Marino Gallery, Tibaldi: New York; Doren Waxter, the artist and Van Saccoccio: Courtesy

22 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 23 of Cambridge reflected on the hermeneutical ten- THE POLITICAL POWER sion between Originalism and Traditionalism in both OF SACRED TEXTS religious and secular history of law. The afternoon session was opened by Gavin Scholars convene to discuss the role of religion Flood from University of Oxford with a paper on the in politics today and throughout history. political use of the Bhagavad Gita in India. Tiziana photo: Cate Bonesho. Talmud Lipiello, professor and vice-rector of the University of Venice, spoke about the political influence of the Four Books in China, especially in Neo- Confucianism. Eckart Otto from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich reflected on the political relevance of the Bible in the works of Max Weber, Hermann Cohen, and Ernst Troeltsch during World War I as the fundamental catastrophe of the 20th century. Finally, Ron Hendel from University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the influence of Biblical thought in modern political theory, for example in the works of Macchiavelli, Grotius, and Hobbes. Fellows of the Academy, faculty and students of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and other guests enjoyed the lively discussions following each paper. “Ron Hendel’s analysis of the use of the Hebrew Bible from Machiavelli to the recent white national- ist rally in Charlottesville highlighted the necessity of scholarship on the interpretation and manipu- lation of sacred texts,” noted Cate Bonesho (2018 The conference The Political Power of Sacred Texts, Fellow). held at the American Academy in Rome on October “We as scholars must constantly examine and 19, 2017, brought together eminent scholars from re-examine our own historical situation in relation to Biblical, Qur’anic, Hindu, and Chinese Studies to the past,” said Michelle L. Berenfeld (2018 Fellow). discuss the political influence and use of sacred The presentations and discussions were live- texts through history and up to the present. John streamed and are accessible on https://livestream. Ochsendorf, director of the Academy, welcomed the com/aarome/events/7826493. conference and emphasized the need for deep anal- The conference was organized by Dominik ysis to understand the role of religions in politics. Markl (Pontifical Biblical Institute), Ron Hendel Katell Berthelot from the French National (University of California, Berkeley), and Lindsay Centre for Scientific Research discussed the Harris (American Academy in Rome). It was Political Power of the Biblical Texts Pertaining to the co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome Conquest of the Promised Land, from the Hasmonean and the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Period to the Present. Harold Attridge, former Dean of Yale Divinity School, reflected on how political conceptions found in the New Testament—Jesus’s kingdom “not of this world”—have played out in political discourses. Angelika Neuwirth from Freie Universität Berlin, director of the Corpus Coranicum LEFT, FROM TOP project, analyzed the “explosive potential” of the The speakers in the AAR gar- qur’anic verse Q 17:1, which is used—against other dens, Katell Berthelot, Harold Attridge and Bitrus Galadima, evidence in the Qur’an—to deny the existence of and John Ochsendorf and Jerusalem’s temple. Holger Zellentin from University Holger Zellentin.

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New York Gala This publication is generously supported by $1,000,000 and above Mirella Petteni Haggiag Jessie and Charles Price. Louisa Stude Sarofim Craig W. Hartman and Jan O’Brien In November, 250 guests gath- Daniela Memmo D’Amelio We thank the following for their support of $100,000–$999,999 Mercurio SpA ered to honor Tony Kushner and the American Academy in Rome (March 15– Cynthia Lewis Beck Blake Middleton, FAIA, FAAR’82, and returning Rome Prize Fellows September 30, 2017). The Brown Foundation Dr. Martha Eddy at the American Academy in The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Moncler SpA Rome’s Fall Gala in New York City. Estate of James R. Lamantia, Jr., FAAR’49 Susan and Peter Nitze Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Nancy and John Novogrod Luminaries from the worlds of Mr. and Mrs. H. Charles Price Ellen Phelan, RAAR’99, and art, fashion, business, politics, Estate of Virginia Ridder Joel Shapiro, RAAR’99 and academia enjoyed cocktails John F. W. Rogers Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky 1 2 and music in The Grill, followed Terra Foundation for American Art Professor Michael C. J. Putnam, FAAR’64, Tiffany & Co. Italia S.p.A. RAAR’70, and Mr. Kenneth Gaulin by a candlelit dinner in The Pool, Peter G. Rolland, FAAR’78 in the famed Seagram Building. $25,000–$99,999 Brian S. Snyder In addition to a video created Suzanne Deal Booth Angela E. Thompson by Michael Rock (2000 Fellow) Mrs. Donald M. Cox Alexander Thyssen-Bornemisza Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Tommy Hilfiger with music by David Lang (1991 Cary Davis and John McGinn Calvin Tsao, RAAR’10 Fellow), the highlight of the Daryl and Robert S. Davis, FAAR’91 Billie Tsien, RAAR’00, and evening was the presentation of Sharon Davis Tod C. Williams, FAAR’83 the Centennial Medal by Pulitzer- Mary and Howard Frank Valentino SpA William B. Hart and Constance Eaton Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize winning historian and Bruce Horten AAR Trustee David Kertzer (2000 Rachel Jacoff, RAAR’11 $5,000–$9,999 3 4 Resident) to Tony Kushner. Known Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 Marella Caracciolo Chia for his work on stage and in film Dr. Peggy McEvoy William H. Fain, Jr., FAAR’02 Catriona and Simon Mordant AM Ileana Franchetti (Angels in America, Philadelphia, Ili Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09, and Giorgio Armani SpA and Lincoln, among many others), Eric Lindgren Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98, and Mr. Kushner literally brought the National Endowment for the Arts Doug Argue, FAAR’98 house down with a monologue on Syde Hurdus Foundation Susan and David Kertzer, RAAR’00 United States Department of Education The Kirby Family Foundation his initial resistance to Rome. Walton Family Foundation Dorothy Lichtenstein Diane Britz Lotti 1. AAR Honoree Tony Kushner. $10,000–24,999 Catherine and William B. McGurn, III 2. Micaela Varricchio with Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli J. P. Morgan Ambassador Armando Varricchio. Mercedes T. Bass Molly and Blake Nordstrom 3. Bruce Horten, Barbara Diamonstein- Bloomberg John R. Phillips and Linda Douglass 5 6 Spielvogel, and Trustee Sharon Davis. Thomas A. Blount Peter F. Smith, FAAR’69 4. Dame Jillian Sackler, Carolina Herrera, Jim and Katie Brennan Bob Cocacello, and Gala guest. Kevin Brine and Jessica Smith $1,000–$4,999 5. 2007 Fellows Patricia Cronin and Nicola and Beatrice Bulgari The Attingham Trust Lisa Mignone, with Joy Connolly and Dior The Barrington Foundation 2012 Fellow Jackie Murray. Carole Anne Menzi Collier Margaret E. Bates and Scott Johnson 6. 1998 Fellow Doug Argue and Credit Suisse Yohan Benjamin and Nicole Fadlun Allison Mignone. Embassy of the United States, Rome Dr. Carol Bentel, FAAR`94, and 7. 2017 Fellow Kristi Cheramie and Ettinger Foundation Dr. Paul Bentel, FAIA AAR President Mark Robbins. Fendi Suzanne Bocanegra, FAAR’91, and 8. AAR Fellows Andrew Horne, Gagosian David Lang, FAAR’91, RAAR’17 Shaun Anderson, Kristi Cheramie, Generali Professor Martin Brody, RAAR’02, and William Cheramie, Rachely Rotem, Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners Professor Katharine Park and Phu Hoang. Gucci Will Bruder Architects, Ltd. 7 8

26 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 27 Vincent J. Buonanno AAR Patron Members McKim & Morgan Society Members William Levitan, FAAR’88, and Debra Nails Luigi Capello and Stefano Pighini, LVenture Carol F. Lewine Group SpA Chairman’s Council Paul Arpaia, FAAR’08 Elizabeth Locke and John Staelin Tom Carpenter and Lynne Lancaster Suzanne Deal Booth Andrew N. Baer and Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs, FAAR’64 Angela Colterjohn William B. Hart and Constance Eaton Elizabeth Freeman Baer Annette and Craig McGhee Professor Joseph Connors, RAAR’87 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hyman Beryl Barr-Sharrar Melissa Meyer, FAAR’81 Mattia and Carlotta De Luca Dr. Peggy McEvoy Robert Beaser, FAAR’78, RAAR’11 Chas A. Miller, III, and Birch Coffey Isabella del Frate Rayburn Jeanne and Alexander Sloane Dr. Larry Thomas Bell, FAAR’83, and Henry A. and Judith R. Millon Jared Della Valle and AJ Pires Ms. Andrea Olmsted Bitsie and Grover E. Mouton, FAAR’73 M.se Sigifredo di Canossa President’s Council Mary Jo and Richard C. Bell, Kathy Muehlemann, FAAR’88, and Giuseppina Di Flumeri Judith and David Barrett FAAR’53, RAAR’75 James Muehlemann, FAAR’82 Emanuela di Lorenzo Badia Allston Chapman Mirka Benes, FAAR’84, FAAR’97 Gwynn Murrill, FAAR’80 Mr. Remmel T. Dickinson Elizabeth M. Gordon Ludmila Schwarzenberg Bidwell Ili Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09, and Virginia Dwan Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84 Thomas Bosworth, FAAR’81 Eric Lindgren Carla Fendi in memoriam Susan and Peter Nitze Charles Brickbauer, FAAR’57 Susan and Peter Nitze Frederick Fisher and Partners Townes Lavidge Osborn and Steven Brooke, FAAR’91 Laurie Nussdorfer, FAAR’81, and Abigail Dorr Gillespie and Robert Marquis Patricia Fortini Brown, FAAR’90, RAAR’01 Nicholas Adams, FAAR’88 Nathan Clements-Gillespie Beth K. Pfeiffer Caroline A. Bruzelius, FAAR’86, RAAR’89 Nancy M. O’Boyle Giovanni and Valeria Giuliani Anne Jacques Phelps Dr. Virginia Bush Suttman, FAAR’77 James E. Packer, FAAR’64 Richard Gluckman, RAAR’17, and Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR’84, and Paul R. V. Pawlowski, FAAR’69, and Tiffany Bell John Guare, RAAR’13 Ingrid Anderson Camillo Greco Chuck Close, RAAR’96 Beverly Pepper, RAAR’86 John W. Haeger Jane W. Crawford, FAAR’82, RAAR’97, and Catherine and William L. Plumb, FAAR’86 Christel and Michael Hagen, AFAAR’17 Bernard Frischer, FAAR’76, RAAR’97 Professor Michael C. J. Putnam, FAAR’64, Ursula M. Heibges, FAAR’66 in memoriam Daryl and Robert S. Davis, FAAR’91 RAAR’70, and Mr. Kenneth Gaulin Carol and Joel Honigberg David G. De Long, RAAR’98 Cynthia Pyle, FAAR’78, and Richard Kayne Walter J. Hood, FAAR’97, RAAR’14 Judith Di Maio, FAAR’78, RAAR’09 Dr. W. G. Rainer M.D., P.C. Chris Hughes Suzanne Dirsmith Peter G. Rolland, FAAR’78, FASLA IC Bellagio Francine du Plessix Gray, RAAR’80 C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12 Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown Harry B. Evans, FAAR’73, RAAR’91 Shirley F. Royal Jenks Stephen Jaycox James L. Franklin Jr., FAAR’75 Susan C. Salay Paul Kasmin Warren Bryan Fuermann Martica R. Sawin Thomas F. Kelly FAAR’86, RAAR’02 Professor Katherine A. Geffcken, FAAR’55 Peter F. Smith, FAAR’69 Julie and John Lippman Frank S. Gilligan Pamela F. Starr, FAAR’84 Katherine and James McAllen John W. Haeger James Timberlake, FAAR’83, FAIA, and Valentina Moncada di Paternò Mrs. Mark Hampton Ms. Marguerite Rodgers Jeannette Montgomery Barron and Ann Hartman James and Meriget Turner Trust James D. Barron George E. Hartman, FAAR’78, RAAR’96, Ann Weber Nautilus Foundation and Jan Cigliano Phoebe D. Weil, RAAR’07 Barbara Parodi Delfino Louise K. Hirschfeld and Lewis B. Cullman Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, RAAR’82 Mark Robbins, FAAR’97 Susan R. Hughson and George A. Hinds, Charles Witke, FAAR’62, RAAR’98, and Dr. Diana Robin, FAAR’88 FAAR’84, AIA Aileen Gatten C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12 Professor Richard J. Hoffman, FAAR’72 Diane Favro, RAAR’15, and Janet Ross James R. Jarrett, FAAR’59 Fikret K. Yegül, RAAR’98 Christopher Rothko Robert J. Jergens, FAAR’63 T. C. Price Zimmerman Professor Michele Renee Salzman, FAAR’87 Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84 Anonymous (3) Suzanne and David Santry Buff S. Kavelman Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Richard G. Kenworthy, FAAR’70 Antonio Sersale G. N. Knauer, RAAR’85, and Kezia Knauer Jeanne and Alexander Sloane Marjorie E. Kreilick-McNab, FAAR’63 Frank Snowden, Jr., RAAR’03 Lisa Kressbach Soledad Twombly Anne Laidlaw, FAAR’61, RAAR’76 Luca Virgilio and Jennifer Frusci Virgilio Albert Lamb, III, FAAR’70 Fred Wilson Leila Laughlin and Daniel Javitch, Anonymous (1) FAAR’90, RAAR’96

28 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 29 CURRENT FELLOWS: 2017–2018 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows

ANCIENT STUDIES ARCHITECTURE Booth Family Rome Prize MEDIEVAL STUDIES MUSICAL COMPOSITION Abigail Cohen Rome Prize LIZ ŠEVCˇENKO ALLEN FRAME Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman/ Founders Rome Prize Director, Humanities Action Lab, The New Donald and Maria Cox/Samuel H. Kress Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Photographer; Adjunct Professor, National Endowment for the Humanities BRANDON CLIFFORD School + Rutgers University–Newark Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize* Rome Prize Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Confronting Denial: Preservation for a ANNA MAJESKI SUZANNE FARRIN Portraits in Roman Gardens MICHELLE L. BERENFELD and Planning, Massachusetts Institute Post-Truth Era Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, The Frayda B. Lindemann Professor John A. McCarthy Associate Professor, of Technology New York University of Music, Hunter College and the CUNY Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Classics, Pitzer College Ghosts of Rome LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Visualizing the Cosmos from Fourteenth- Graduate Center BEVERLY MCIVER At Home in the City: The Neighborhoods of Century Padua: From Francesco da The Hour of The Star Artist; Esbenshade Professor of the the Urban Elite in the Late Roman Empire Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Garden Club of America Rome Prize Barberino to Giusto de’Menabuoi Practice, Department Art, Art History and Gordon Rome Prize ROSETTA S. ELKIN Samuel Barber Rome Prize Visual Arts, Duke University Emeline Hill Richardson Pre-Doctoral KEITH KRUMWIEDE Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral ASHLEY FURE Impact of Place Rome Prize Director, Krum|Co.; Visiting Associate Design, Harvard University; Associate, Rome Prize Assistant Professor, Department of Music, CATHERINE E. BONESHO Professor, Department of Architecture, Arnold Arboretum BISSERA V. PENTCHEVA Dartmouth College 2017–2018 ITALIAN FELLOWS Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Classical University of California, Berkeley Shorelines: The Case of Italian Stone Pine Professor, Department of Art History, Da Vinci Shaken and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, A Pattern Book of Houses for a World Stanford University Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in University of Wisconsin–Madison After the End of Work Prince Charitable Trusts/Rolland Animation in Medieval Art RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Foreign Holidays and Festivals Rome Prize VERONICA COPELLO as Representative of Identity in DESIGN ALISON B. HIRSCH AND AROUSSIAK GABRIELIAN Phyllis W.G. Gordan/Lily Auchincloss/ Anthony M. Clark Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Scholar, Université de Fribourg Rabbinic Literature Co-founders, foreground design agency, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral RAYMOND CARLSON Toward a New Edition of Vittoria Colonna’s Mark Hampton Rome Prize Los Angeles, California; Hirsch: Assistant Rome Prize** Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History Correspondence Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Samuel H. JENNIFER BIRKELAND AND Professor of Landscape Architecture JOSEPH WILLIAMS and Archaeology, Columbia University Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize* JONATHAN A. SCELSA + Urbanism, School of Architecture, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art, Art Michelangelo between and Rome: Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita LIANA BRENT Partners, op.AL; Birkeland: Visiting University of Southern California; History, and Visual Studies, Duke University Art and Literary Culture in Sixteenth- CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Classics, Assistant Professor / Practitioner in Gabrielian: Ph.D. Candidate in Media The Practice and Production of Architecture Century Italy RÄ DI MARTINO Cornell University Residence, The Pennsylvania State Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts, during the Mediterranean Commercial Artist Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, University; Scelsa: Assistant Professor University of Southern California Revolution: The Church of S. Corrado in American Academy in Rome The Eye, the Ear and the Mouth Reuse, and Violation in Roman Italy of Architectural Design + Technology, Rome Real-and-Imagined: Cinematic Molfetta (ca. 1185–1303) Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Pratt Institute; Lecturer in Architecture, Fictions and Future Landscapes CÉCILE FROMONT Cy Twombly Italian Fellow in Visual Arts Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize University of Pennsylvania; Design Critic, MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES Assistant Professor, Department of Art ALESSANDRO DI PIETRO LAUREN DONOVAN GINSBERG the Rhode Island School of Design LITERATURE History, University of Chicago Artist Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, The Roman Roof-Scape—The Atrium Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Images on a Mission: Cross-Cultural Natives Nameless and Ruins University of Cincinnati as Landscape–Urban Infrastructure Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, National Endowment for the Humanities Encounters and Visual Mediation in Early They Will Sing of You and Me: Lucan as a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Modern Kongo and Angola Marcello Lotti Italian Fellow in Music Caesar’s Epic Successor Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky ISHION HUTCHINSON LESLIE COZZI FEDERICO GARDELLA Rome Prize Professor, Department of English, Curatorial Associate, Hammer Museum VISUAL ARTS Composer Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize TRICIA TREACY Cornell University Fra: Relation and Collaboration in Concert for Mandolin and Strings KEVIN E. MOCH Assistant Professor, Graphic Design, School by the Cliff Contemporary Italian Art Harold M. English Rome Prize Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Classics, Department of Art, Appalachian SANFORD BIGGERS Enel Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban University of California, Berkeley State University John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist; Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Design, and Landscape Architecture Quoium Pecus? Representations of Italian modes + methods of dialog + collaboration a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Columbia University FOSCO LUCARELLI Identity in Vergil’s Eclogues, Georgics, T. GERONIMO JOHNSON DIANA GARVIN Spolia Architect and Aeneid HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION University Chair in Creative Writing, Assistant Professor, Department of Horizontal Rome Department of English, Texas State Romance Languages, University of Oregon Chuck Close/Henry W. and Marian T. Irene Rosenzweig/Lily Auchincloss/ Charles K. Williams II Rome Prize University at San Marcos When Cuisines Collide Mitchell Rome Prize Italian Fellow in Ancient Studies Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral LISA DELEONARDIS Pilot of the Great Machine ABIGAIL DEVILLE EMILIO ROSAMILIA Rome Prize** Austen-Stokes Professor, Department of Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Artist Scholar, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa SOPHIE CRAWFORD WATERS the History of Art, John Hopkins University Rome Prize New Monuments to Forget the Future Cyrene: Political, Sacred, and Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Group in the A Transatlantic Response to Worlds JESSICA GABRIEL PERITZ Economic History Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean That Shake: Jesuit Contributions to Anti- Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music, Jules Guerin Rome Prize World, University of Pennsylvania Seismic Building Design in Early Modern University of Chicago ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas Italy and Peru The Lyric Mode of Voice: Song and Artist; Professor, Department of and Cultural Memory in Republican Italy Subjectivity in Italy, 1769–1815 Painting and Printmaking, School of Art, Yale University * year one of a two-year fellowship Color Therapy (working title) ** year two of a two-year fellowship

30 AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 31 WHEN IN ROME: 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- Laurie Anderson, RAAR’06 tion, the Academy awards the Rome Prize to a select group of artists Pierpaolo Barzan Cynthia L. Beck and scholars annually, after an application process that begins each Susanna Borghese 1 fall. The winners, selected by independent juries through a national Jim Brennan competition process, are invited to Rome the following year to Martin Brody, RAAR’02 pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and Vincent J. Buonanno Cary J. Davis 2 artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange. Awards are Sharon Davis 5 offered in the following categories: Literature, Music Composition, Mary E. Frank Visual Arts, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Ginevra Elkann Gaetani Historic Preservation and Conservation, as well as Ancient, Medieval, Lyle Ashton Harris, FAAR’01 Walter J. Hood, FAAR’97, RAAR’14 Renaissance and Early Modern, and Modern Italian Studies. The Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98, Chair Academy also invites a select group of Residents, Affiliated Fellows, Thomas F. Kelly, FAAR’86, RAAR’02 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 Paul S. Levy Thom Mayne Fondata nel 1894, l’American Academy in Rome è il più antico centro amer- William B. McGurn, III icano fuori dagli Stati Uniti dedicato allo studio indipendente e alla Roberto A. Mignone ricerca avanzata nelle arti e nelle discipline umanistiche. L’Accademia Simon D. Mordant AM Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09 è un’istituzione senza scopo di lucro finanziata grazie all’appoggio di Nancy Novogrod 3 privati che offre ogni anno la borsa di studio Rome Prize a un gruppo John Ochsendorf, FAAR’08, Director* di artisti e studiosi. Il processo di selezione è affidato a un concorso James J. Pallotta nazionale negli Stati Uniti che prende avvio in autunno e che si avvale John R. Phillips Kelly D. Powell, FAAR’02* della valutazione di giurie indipendenti: i vincitori sono invitati a Jessie H. Price Roma a condurre il proprio lavoro in un’atmosfera di libertà intel- Francine C. Prose, RAAR’06 lettuale e artistica e di scambio interdisciplinare. La borsa di studio Mark Robbins, FAAR’97, President* premia persone che operano nelle arti (architettura, architettura Michael Rock, FAAR’00 4 John F. W. Rogers, Vice Chairman del paesaggio, arti visive, composizione musicale, conservazione e C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12, AAR restauro dei beni storico-artistici, design e letteratura) e nelle Vice Chairman discipline umanistiche (studi classici, medievali, sul Rinascimento Michele R. Salzman, FAAR’87, RAAR’08** e sulla prima età moderna, e sull’Italia moderna). L’Accademia, Louisa Stude Sarofim Frank M. Snowden, RAAR’03 inoltre, invita a Roma alcuni prestigiosi esponenti delle arti e degli Now serving her final year as the 1 4 David M. Stone, FAAR’98, RAAR’16 Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in- TEMPIO DI CRISTO RE PIAZZA CAVOUR studi umanistici (Residenti), borsisti scelti in collaborazione con Robert Storr Calvin Tsao, RAAR’10 Charge of Humanities at the AAR, Viale Giuseppe Mazzini, 32 It feels a little like Paris with palm trees. altre importanti istituzioni e un selezionato gruppo di altri artisti e A landmark by 20th-century Italian studiosi a unirsi e a lavorare insieme ai Borsisti all’interno della Adam D. Weinberg Lindsay Harris (2014 Fellow) shares 5 Charles K. Williams, II architect Marcello Piacentini, this is where nostra eccezionale comunità. one of her favorite areas in Rome. Catholicism meets rationalism in architec- CAFE SETTEMBRINI Tod C. Williams, FAAR’83 ture and creativity with brick and concrete. Via Luigi Settembrini, 21 Fred Wilson A favorite neighborhood of mine is Prati, A great place to stop for cappuccino while To learn more, please visit: Barbara Zalaznick in northwest Rome. It is the only central 2 visiting the area. AAROME.ORG neighborhood planned and built entirely PIAZZA MAZZINI LIFE TRUSTEE after with Rome as the This small park in the middle of a massive Michael C.J. Putnam, FAAR’64, RAAR’70 capital in 1870. Its residential buildings, traffic circle reminds me of Pierre Charles government headquarters, piazzas, and L’Enfant’s urban plan of Washington, DC, road network all speak to key issues FAAR Fellow, American Academy in Rome my hometown. of modernity: balancing the needs of RAAR Resident, American Academy in Rome AFAAR Affiliated Fellow, American Academy a contemporary city with respect for 3 in Rome tradition, reconciling national identity with VIA GERMANICO international trends, secularism in the * ex officio There are several of Marcello Piacentini’s face of religion, and innovation driven by ** Trustee representing the early residential buildings here. new technologies. Advisory Council to the Committee —Lindsay Harris on the Humanities.

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