AMERICAN ACADEMY IN MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2016 FALL/WINTER 2016

2 30 Welcome to the Fall 2016 issue LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT CONVIVIUM of AAR Magazine. and Rome Galas 4 In this issue, we celebrate this year’s central theme FAR AFIELD 31 of American Classics, exploring programs and work Checking in with Fellows and Residents DONORS that define what it means to be American and the ways in which this is reframed in the context of 6 34 our setting in Rome. We also feature the artists, FROM THE ARCHIVES FELLOWS writers, scholars, and composers in our diverse and Ralph Ellison at AAR The 2016–2017 Rome Prize winners expansive community, as well as one of our signa- ture programs: the Rome Sustainable Food Project, 7 36 which recently published its latest cookbook, Carne. IN RESIDENCE WHEN IN ROME We also highlight new partnerships with organiza- Spotlighting recent Residents AAR Director Kim Bowes shares favorite places tions such as the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in Rome and the Institute for International Education, which help expand our audiences. FEATURES

10 Vi diamo il benvenuto al numero WANDERING ROME “Autunno 2016” dell’AAR Magazine. A View of One’s Own compares photographic perspectives on Rome Questo numero è dedicato agli American Classics, il tema centrale attorno al quale si snoda l’attività 18 di quest’anno dell’Accademia: eventi e lavori che FOREIGN BODIES definiscono che cosa significhi “essere americani”, Three Fellows make use of AAR’s Fellows Project Fund e le maniere in cui questo concetto si riconfigura to share their work with Rome nel contesto della nostra presenza a Roma. Siamo lieti di farvi conoscere gli artisti, gli scrittori, gli 22 studiosi e i compositori che operano nella nostra SUPPORTING ARTISTS Comunità sempre più ampia ed eterogenea, AAR welcomes Syrian artist Rashwan Abdelbaki a uno dei nostri programmi distintivi, il Rome Sustainable Food Project, che quest’anno celebra 24 la pubblicazione del suo ultimo libro di cucina, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AMERICA Carne. Siamo inoltre felici di illustrarvi le nostre The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation sponsors a new nuove collaborazioni, con organizzazioni come la season of conversations on “American Classics” Helen Frankenthaler Foundation e l’Institute for International Education, che contribuiscono a ren- 26 dere il nostro pubblico sempre più vasto. FROM OUR TABLE A new cookbook shares recipes from AAR’s kitchen

29 LENS ON GREEK HISTORY A visit with Trustee Charles Williams II LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT:

L’arrivo dei nuovi vincitori del Rome Prize a settem- i bre segna l’avvio di una serie nuova di conversazi- Follow @aarpresident on Instagram for oni che durerà per l’intero anno accademico, e per up-to-the-minute images of all that’s gli anni a venire. Gli argomenti toccati finora sono happening with AAR.

molteplici, e spaziano dall’analisi dello smaltimento OPPOSITE dei rifiuti nell’antichità al ruolo delle produzioni AAR president Mark Robbins on the radiofoniche operistiche nella cultura italiana del roof of Fendi’s new headquarters at primo Novecento: siamo desiderosi di scoprire le Rome’s Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, a building commissioned by Benito idee e i progetti che nasceranno in Accademia nei Mussolini in 1943. prossimi mesi. Photo by Sergio Marini. Il lavoro di Borsisti e Residenti crea una cor- posa rete di intersezioni con il tema centrale di quest’anno, dedicato agli American Classics. Le #fellows #staff #thetablegetslonger #chrisbehr #romesustainablefoodproject September 15, 2016 October 12, 2016 (see p. 26) The arrival of the new Rome Prize winners in mostre, i concerti e i programmi tenuti a Roma, New September means the beginning of new conversa- York, Houston e Los Angeles riconsidereranno il tions that will last throughout the year, and for modo in cui il canone classico riflesso nelle immag- years to come. With topics ranging from analyses ini, nella musica, nei testi letterari e scientifici e of ancient refuse deposits to research on the role of nell’architettura ha partecipato a definire ciò che radio opera in early 20th-century Italian culture, significa “essere americani” e le modalità in cui tale we are looking forward to the ideas and projects that identità sarà ripensata nel futuro. Questi programmi will be generated at AAR over the coming months. pongono l’accento sull’importanza vitale dell’attiv- The work of the Fellows and Residents creates ità degli studiosi e degli artisti, e contribuiscono a a rich set of intersections with this year’s central diffonderla presso un pubblico più ampio. theme of American Classics. Exhibitions, concerts, Sempre più, i programmi dell’American and programs in Rome, New York, Houston, and Academy in Rome sono sostenuti e influenzati da Los Angeles will reconsider how the classical canon nuovi rapporti di cooperazione, come quelli—per in image, music, text, and architecture has helped nominarne solo alcuni—con la Helen Frankenthaler #acropolis #conservation #todwilliamsbillietsien define what it means to be American and the ways in Foundation, l’Institute for International Education August 4, 2016 (see p. 29) July 21, 2016 (see p. 30) which such identity will be reframed in the future. e la Quadriennale di Roma. Queste collaborazioni These programs underscore the vital importance sono un esempio del ruolo giocato dall’American of scholars and artists and helps brings their work Academy in Rome all’interno di un dialogo su scala to a wider audience. globale che pone il pensiero innovativo e la cre- Increasingly AAR programs are supported and atività in primo piano nella vita contemporanea. inflected by new partnerships, such as those with L’Accademia sostiene l’attività indipendente nelle the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Institute arti e nelle discipline umanistiche, offrendo un for International Education, and La Quadriennale beneficio sempre meno comune, e dà il suo contrib- di Roma. These collaborations exemplify the role of uto affinché questi lavori raggiungano platee più AAR as part of a global dialogue that keeps inno- vaste e diversificate. vative thinking and creativity at the forefront of contemporary life. The Academy provides support for independent work in the arts and humanities, #ninfa #fellows #mika #giorgiomoroder #mckimmedal an ever-rarer commodity, and helps that work reach October 13, 2016 June 9, 2016 (see p. 30) broader and more diverse audiences. Mark Robbins, President

2 Fall/Winter 2016 3 FAR AFIELD: Newest novel by Prose debuts this fall Author Francine Prose (2006 Resident and AAR Trustee) has stated that her favorite writing stylists include John Cheever, this summer and garnered praise Hurlin’s fellowship James Joyce (the story “The in the New Yorker and New York Dead” is a particular favorite), project premieres Times. Currently director of the and Marcel Proust, as well as graduate program in theater at contemporaries such as Deborah to acclaim Sarah Lawrence College, where he Eisenberg. Like her writing, As a puppet artist, Dan Hurlin has teaches both dance composition Francine’s interests are varied a great affinity for performance and puppetry, Dan has served Pinto offers a new look at and wide-ranging. She has worked texts and visual art by the Italian on the faculties of Bowdoin, Rome and the Romantics in art criticism and contributed futurists. While in Rome as the Bennington, and Barnard College Professor John Pinto (1975 Fellow, to the Wall Street Journal and 2014 Jesse Howard, Jr. Rome Prize and Princeton University. He is 2006 Resident) is an esteemed Aperture, among many other pub- Fellow in Visual Art, he learned the recipient of a John Simon scholar who has dedicated his lications. Her most recent novel, that four puppet plays by artist Guggenheim Fellowship in chore- career to the architecture, urban- the observant and darkly humor- and writer Fortunato Depero were ography, an Alpert Award in the ism, and landscape of Rome, with ous Mister Monkey (2016), follows never produced. After traveling Arts, OBIE and BESSIE Awards, and a particular focus on the 18th the intriguing exploits of a con- to Rovereto to study the archives, a Artists Prudential century. Howard Crosby Butler stellation of characters affiliated he found a treasure trove of Fellowship in theater. For his next Memorial Professor Emeritus of with an off-off-off-off Broadway documentation with notes with project, Dan is considering a proj- Art and Archaeology at Princeton children’s musical. She conducted stage directions and set designs. ect using futurist performance University, John recently shared research for the novel Caravaggio: Now Dan has created a four- texts, manifestos, and visual art as his work with a wider public, Painter of Miracles while at the play presentation, Demolishing a starting point, or an opera. screened, exhibited, and per- through an exhibition at the American Academy in Rome. Everything with Amazing Speed, Reid Kelley wins formed at numerous national and Morgan Library & Museum last Among her previous novels, with music commissioned by BELOW international venues, including Demolishing Everything With Amazing summer titled City of the Soul: A Changed Man won the Dayton Dan Moses Schreirer, which was a MacArthur the Institute for Contemporary Speed at the Richard B. Fisher Center for Rome and the Romantics. The Literary Peace Prize, and Lovers in presented at Bard SummerScape the Performing Arts at Bard College. Trained as a painter, Mary Reid Kelley Art, Boston, the Tate Modern, and exhibition presented a century the Chameleon Club, 1932 pro- (2011 Fellow) creates narrative the Wexner Center for the Arts. of artistic impressions of Rome vided a sweeping view of life in videos set within her own stylized In addition to having received through a superb selection of pre-Occupation Paris. Her works black-and-white drawings. Made the Rome Prize and other awards, prints and drawings by masters of nonfiction include the highly with videographer Patrick Kelley, Mary was recently recognized as such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, her projects are often informed a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. Based in (1720–1778) and J. M. W. Turner The Life, The Afterlife and the New by the crude, black-and-white Saratoga Springs, New York, she (1775–1851). For Rome-aphiles, the York Times bestseller Reading Like figures of early animation and the is a senior critic at the University show was a magnificent oppor- a Writer. lo-tech look of amateur film. They of Pennsylvania School of Design tunity to revel in the city and frequently explore the roles of and a critic in painting at the Yale its environs as they were before women, sexuality, and language, University School of Art. the days of selfie sticks and as well as art historical tropes. Starbucks. For those that missed Her trilogy related to the Greek ABOVE the show, it can still be enjoyed A still from Priapus Agonistes. myth of the minotaur—Priapus in the accompanying exhibition Agonistes (2013), Swinburne’s catalogue. Pasiphae (2014), and The Thong John’s next project also prom- of Dionysus (2015)—recently ises to inspire yearnings for Rome debuted as a complete set at the and is a capstone of his life’s Hammer Museum. Her videos work: a book on architecture and and installations have also been

urbanism in 18th-century Rome. MacArthur Foundation; Prose: courtesy of HarperCollins. Hurlin: photo © Stephanie Berger; Reid Kelley: courtesy of John D. & Catherine T.

4 Fall/Winter 2016 5 FROM THE ARCHIVES: IN RESIDENCE:

Ralph Ellison Each year, distinguished artists and Novelist, critic, and scholar Ralph scholars from around the world Ellison (1913–1994) came to the Academy for a two-year fellow- are invited to come to the Academy ship in 1955—on the heels of win- as Residents. ning the National Book Award During their stay, Residents serve as senior advisors for his now classic novel Invisible to Rome Prize recipients and host special Academy- Man (1952). While in Rome, wide events—concerts, exhibitions, lectures, readings, Ellison befriended the writer and instructional walks in Rome. Meet some of our Robert Penn Warren, who was a Residents for this fall/winter. Resident at the Academy in 1957, and even contributed a short story to an anthology Warren was editing at the time, A New Southern Harvest (1957). It was a heady period for art- ists and writers at the Academy. For the prior half century— since its founding in 1894—the Academy had sought mainly to reinforce the classical canon. Laurence Roberts, an Asianist and museum director who served as the Director of the Academy from 1947 to 1959, shifted the emphasis to contemporary and p. 8 p. 9 p. 10 modern practices. AAR was fast Nathaniel Mackey Ping Chong Zoe Strauss becoming a home for artists, writers, and architects with diverse backgrounds and even more diverse interests—a place where Ellison, whose writing dealt with such difficult subjects as race, personal identity, and Marxism, could get the time and space to think and work.

LEFT Ralph Ellison, June 1957. Photo © James Whitmore/The LIFE Picture Collection/ Getty Images.

p. 11 p. 12 p. 13 Tom Crow Shadi Bartsch Rahul Mehrota Mackey portrait: Paul Schraub; Chong portrait: Adam Nadel; Strauss portrait: Ashley Thompson. portrait: Paul Schraub; Chong Adam Nadel; Mackey

6 Fall/Winter 2016 7 Ping Chong Mary Miss Artist in Residence 19 September–29 October

Renowned theater artist Ping Chong has created over 90 van- guard works for the stage that have been presented across the country and around the world. Ping Chong + Company, the ensemble he founded in 1975 and continues to lead, is dedicated to addressing significant cultural with the suggestion of a West and civic issues through art and Nathaniel Mackey African griot epic as told by the theater productions. Company William B. Hart Poet in Residence Fasa, a clan from ancient Ghana. projects range from grand-scale, 19 September–17 October During his residency at the cinematic, multidisciplinary pro- Academy, Nate continued work ductions to the intimate “chamber A writer of poetry, fiction, and lit- on his serial poems and pre- story-telling” of Ping’s ongoing erary criticism, Nathaniel Mackey sented a reading of his work. Undesirable Elements series, devel- won the National Book Award for Scheduled for release in oped collaboratively with specific poetry for Splay Anthem (2006), February 2017, Late Arcade communities. the 2015 Yale Bollingen Prize for extends another of Nate’s ongo- In Rome, Ping talked with Poetry for Outer Pradesh (2014), ing projects: the multivolume Hou Hanru, the artistic director and the Poetry Foundation’s 2014 prose novel From a Broken Bottle of MAXXI, the Italian national Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for life- Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. contemporary art museum, and time achievement. The Reynolds Told in the form of letters from a showed excerpts from two current Price Professor of Creative jazz musician known as “N.,” From projects: Collidescope: Adventures Writing at Duke University, Nate a Broken Bottle has earned acco- in Pre- and Post-Racial America is also the longtime editor of lades for its “exquisite rhythmic ABOVE BELOW (2014–) and Beyond Sacred: Voices Hambone, “a journal of innova- lyricism” (Bookforum). Ping Chong’s Collidescope, of Muslim Identity (2015–). Inspired tive poetry and prose.” Music— Collidescope 2.0, performed in 2014. in part by the killings of Trayvon primarily jazz—reverberates performed in 2016. Martin, Michael Brown, and oth- through much of his writing, as ers, Collidescope combines theater, does awareness of African and movement, video projections, and African American traditions. a collaged soundscape in a pris- In his poetry volumes, Nate matic investigation of the history intertwines two long serial Nathaniel Mackey’s forth- of violence directed at African poems, “Song of Andoumboulou” coming novel, Late Americans from the colonial era and “Mu,” in a project whose Arcade, and most to the present. Beyond Sacred, ambition and scope have recent volume of part of the Undesirable Elements prompted comparisons to Walt poetry, Blue Fasa. series, chronicles the diverse Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and experiences of five Muslim New Ezra Pound’s Cantos. The title of Yorkers who came of age at a time the most recent installment, Blue of increasing Islamophobia in the Fasa (2015), hints at its structure United States. The public event and themes, bringing the “Blue” was part of the Conversations/ of the jazz classic “Blue Bossa” (a Conversazioni series. hard bop instrumental inflected by Brazilian bossa nova) together Top: photo by John Solem; bottom: photo by Josh Sheldon. by Josh photo by John Solem; bottom: Top:

8 Fall/Winter 2016 9 LEFT Thomas Crow The cover of James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence Thomas Crow’s 27 October–21 November new history of pop art.

Thomas Crow’s research and BELOW teaching interests extend from Manuscript page the late-17th century in to for Thomas Crow’s the contemporary period, with Paul Mellon Lectures with particular attention throughout revisions. to what he terms “the interac- tion between artistic creation and social circumstance.” Currently the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art and Associate Provost for the Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, , he has also been a contributing editor at Artforum for 20 years. His first book Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1985) received multiple awards and is often credited with sparking renewed scholarly interest in this period. He has also published Zoe Strauss’s South Philly several acclaimed volumes (Mattress Flip on modern art and criticism, Front), 2001. as well as essays on artists Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. “You won’t see Pop the same way” (Art Review) after reading Zoe Strauss pictures soon attracted critical Zoe discussed her relationship The Long March of Pop: Art, Design, Richard Grubman/Caroline Mortimer attention, an invitation to exhibit with Philadelphia and her use of and Music, 1930–1995 (2015), Tom’s Photographer in Residence at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, photography and political out- most recent book. He definitively 19 September–7 November and comparisons to such pho- reach to engage wider audiences broadens the context in which tographers as Walker Evans and and revive troubled urban neigh- pop art is usually discussed, Zoe Strauss’s photography is Nan Goldin. The retrospective borhoods in an October lecture telling a deeper and more com- closely identified with her home exhibition Zoe Strauss: Ten Years at the Academy presented in con- plicated story that encompasses city, Philadelphia, even though she premiered at the Philadelphia junction with the series New Work folk art and folk music, advertis- has made images in many other Museum of Art in 2012 and trav- in the Arts & Humanities: American ing and rock album covers, and locales. Committed to making eled to the International Center Classics. Her talk coincided with the art of Jeff Koons and Damien her images broadly accessible of Photography in New York in the opening of the AAR exhibi- Hirst. Tom is currently working outside conventional art channels, 2013. Its body of work revealed tion A View of One’s Own—Three on the Paul Mellon Lectures he she began displaying and selling Zoe’s “unique ability to transform Women Photographers in Rome. will give at the National Gallery, them in a single-day exhibition the quotidian or even ugly into Like the exhibition itself, Zoe’s , and the Yale Center for held annually from 2001 and 2010 something extraordinary” as she talk was part of FOTOGRAFIA, British Art in 2017. His topic is under an Interstate 95 overpass in “exposes the invisible class…and Festival Internazionale di Roma. style, music, and art in London South Philadelphia. Her project in doing so, demands our atten- during the 1950s and 1960s. and her intimate, unflinching tion” (Village Voice).

10 Fall/Winter 2016 11 Shadi Bartsch Rahul Mehrota Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence James Marston Fitch Historic 19 September–31 October Preservationist in Residence 19 September–17 October Shadi Bartsch, the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service An architect, urbanist, and educa- Professor of Classics at the tor, Rahul Mehrotra is the princi- , special- pal of RMA Architects of , izes in Roman literature and , and Boston, Massachusetts, philosophy of the early Roman and a professor in the Department Empire. She has researched, of Urban Planning and Design at taught, and written extensively Harvard University’s Graduate on such authors as the philos- School of Design. He and his firm opher Seneca the Younger and have designed art and educa- the poet and satirist Persius, tion facilities, individual houses translating texts and producing and social housing schemes, wide-ranging critical studies corporation headquarters and including The Mirror of the Self: factories, retail boutiques and Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the public restrooms, in Mumbai and Gaze in the Early Roman Empire throughout India. Rahul is also (2006) and Persius: A Study in in the vanguard of preservation Food, Philosophy, and the Figural practices in India. He is currently (2015), her most recent book. writing a book about urbanism, Shadi is also interested in the preservation, and architecture reception of the Greco-Roman in India using examples from his classics in modern China and practice, and he worked on this has been a visiting scholar at the project while in Rome. National Science Foundation in Rahul and RMA seek ways to Tapei. While in Rome this fall, she mitigate exclusivity through their worked on a new translation of projects, using elements—such Virgil’s Aeneid. as gardens tended by gardeners The satires of Persius are or materials related to local notoriously puzzling, filled with LEFT craft practices—that can break ABOVE BELOW The cover of strange, almost Rabelaisian through the boundaries of ineq- Three Court Hathigaon, Jaipur, Persius, Shadi House, Alibag, India, in 2013. imagery regarding food, diges- Bartsch’s most uity that so often define the built India, 2014. tion, and sexuality. Drawing recent book. environment. The Three Court on scholarship in philosophy, House in Alibag (2014) was con- ABOVE literature, and ancient medicine, A page from the ceived as a series of discrete Shadi’s book analyzes Persius’s book’s appendix modules to minimize scale and metaphors to reveal how he uses listing ancient mass and so connect the new them to support the tenets of his remedies for structure to its village site. various maladies. Stoic philosophy. Her “radical Hathigaon (elephant village), and provocative account” (Times a social housing project for Literary Supplement), “exemplary mahouts and their elephants in methodology” (Classical Journal), Jaipur (ongoing), transformed a and “clarity and engaging style” former sand quarry into a land- (Classical Review) have earned scape of trees, housing clusters, widespread praise for her fresh and the waterholes so crucial insights into her subject. to the elephants’ health and the mahouts work with them.

12 Fall/Winter 2016 13 A new exhibition, A View of One’s Own, compares photographic perspectives on Rome by Esther Boise Van Deman, WANDERING Georgina Masson, and Jeannette ROME Montgomery Barron 14 15 This fall AAR presents A View of One’s Own—Three Women Photographers in Rome: Esther Boise Van Deman, Georgina Masson, Jeannette Montgomery Barron, which features photographs by foreign women in Rome from three generations. The exhibition, drawn in part from AAR’s Photographic Archive, documents the Eternal City and its urban transformation over more than a century, from the Belle Époque to today. At the same

time, it tracks the emergence of photography as an FROM TOP independent medium wielded by women as it evolved Jeannette December 25th, from a documentary aid to a vehicle for subjective, Montgomery 2015, Rome; archi- even gendered expression in the digital age. Barron. January val pigment print, 16th, 2014, Rome. 20 × 20 cm. In her classic volume On Photography, Susan Archival pigment Sontag compares the photographer to a flâneur, print, 20 × 20 cm. May 7th, 2014, whose mobile gaze in the boulevards of 19th-century Rome. Archival Paris was defined by poet and critic Charles pigment print, 20 × 20 cm. Baudelaire as the hallmark of a modern, masculine viewpoint. The three photographers, all inveterate walkers, appropriate that perspective and shift the focus to Rome: American archaeologist Esther Boise Van Deman photographed Rome and its campagna in i the early 20th century. Georgina Masson, author of the A View of One’s Own guidebook The Companion Guide to Rome (1965), a October 13–November 27, 2016 series of walking tours, captured Rome during the American Academy in Rome Via Angelo Masina, 5 heyday of la dolce vita. Contemporary photographer Rome Jeannette Montgomery Barron records glimpses of the city PAGE 14 TOP with her iPhone, folding them into a meditative, Exhibition catalogue available Esther Boise Van Esther Boise Van for purchase at shop.aarome.org. Deman. Viminal Deman. Columns kaleidoscopic reverie. Hill, general veiw of the Temple of A View of One’s Own is curated by Lindsay Harris, Peter The exhibition is made possible in part of excavations, Mars Ultor and Benson Miller, and Angela Piga. The catalogue, published by Richard Baron and Adi Shamir Baron. Rome, 1913. the so-called by AAR, includes texts by Mark Robbins, André Aciman, Support for the Photographic Archive of Albumen print, Arco dei Pantani, and the curators. In conjunction with the exhibition, the American Academy in Rome is pro- 10 × 12.5 cm. Rome, 1903. vided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. VD.837. Albumen print, current Resident Zoe Strauss recently gave a lecture 12.5 × 10 cm. about her work in Philadelphia. ABOVE The exhibition is part of the circuit of events Georgina Masson. PAGE 15 Viale Bruno Jeannette promoted by the 16° Quadriennale d’Arte and by Buozzi, Casa Montgomery FOTOGRAFIA, Festival Internazionale di Roma. The del Girasole on Barron. June Quadriennale, a showcase for contemporary Italian 9th, 2013, Rome. the right, Rome, art, is on view through January 7, 2017 at 1950–65. Print Archival pigment from negative, 22 print, 30 × 30 cm. degli Esposizioni and includes work by former AAR × 22 cm. M.293. Residents and Italian Fellows, including Martino Gamper, Marinella Senatore, and Luca Vitone.

16 Fall/Winter 2016 17 FOREIGN BODIES Three Fellows make use of AAR’s Fellows Project Fund to share their work with Rome

Bryony Roberts’s Corpo Estraneo, performed at Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, June 2016. Photo by Claudia Pajewski.

18 19 The Academy offers a wide range of support and opportunities to facilitate cross-disciplinary work and the dissemination of scholarly and artistic pro- duction during a Fellow’s residency. Last year, AAR launched the Fellows Project Fund, which is designed to enrich the practical experience of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows by funding collaborative work with members of other national Academies, and/or cultural and academic institutions in Rome and throughout . Projects are to occur during the Fellowship year, and may take the form of publi- cations, symposia, exhibitions, site-specific installa- tions, or any proposal with a public component. As part of the Academy’s spring exhibition Studio Systems, which explored the status and manifes- tations of the artist’s studio in recent contempo- rary art, Bryony Roberts, the recipient of the Booth Family Rome Prize in Historical Preservation and Conservation, converted the Piazza del Campidoglio on June 16, 2016, into the setting for the site-specific Materials performance Corpo Estraneo. A collaborative project discussed at the conceived with the choreographer Melissa Lohman, Fable conference: Corpo Estraneo used the movements of five dancers The Thousand interacting with the patterned pavement of the and One Nights, and a page from piazza, the symbol of Rome’s municipal government, the Medici Aesop. to interrogate the constraints imposed upon the female body by public space. Prize, was the focus of an exhibition at the Istituto With support from the Fellows’ Project Fund, Centrale per la Grafica in in Rome from Jeremy Lefkowitz, the Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral June 7 through June 26, 2016. As part of his Rome Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies, organized a Prize project, Schutter studied drawings in the workshop on the fable tradition in Italian literature Istituto’s collection by such masters as Salvatore from antiquity to today. Designed to deepen and Rosa, Carlo Maratta, and Nicolas Poussin, whose expand his study of Aesopic fables and anecdotes respective marks and techniques are abstracted in Greek and literature, the half-day event and rehearsed in Schutter’s series. Curated by Fabio brought together an international group of schol- Fiorani, the Chief Curator of the Collections and ars to discuss fables as both an oral and a written Prints and Drawings at the Istituto, the exhibition form of story telling through the ages. By looking revealed the dialogue between Schutter’s work and across time and media at this longstanding genre of a selection of drawings from the collection. communication, the workshop highlighted both the Installation views breadth of the fable tradition in Italian literature and individual works and the range of scholars presently evaluating this from David Schutter’s tradition anew. exhibition of works on Spolia, a series of fifty works on paper by David paper, Spolia, at the Istituto Centrale per la Schutter, the recipient of the Anthony M. Clark Rome Grafica in Rome.

20 Fall/Winter 2016 21 SUPPORTING ARTISTS AAR responds to the call to protect threatened artists, welcoming Rashwan Abdelbaki of Syria this fall

As an organization with an Rashwan Abdelbaki this past abiding commitment to ensur- September. Born in Damascus, ing the future of the arts, the Rashwan is a member of the American Academy in Rome is Syrian Druze community, an proud to be the first European- ethnoreligious minority group based institution to participate of about 700,000 living mostly as a host institution in the new in the southwestern part of the Artist Protection Fund initiative country. He graduated from the from the Institute of Internation Faculty of Fine Arts of Damascus Education (IIE). Through this in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree new program, sponsored by The in printmaking. Since graduating Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, he was featured in a number of the Artist Protection Fund (APF) exhibitions in Damascus, but provides life-saving fellowship with the outbreak of the war and grants to threatened artists from the economic and security situ- any field of artistic endeavor, and ation worsening, he was forced LEFT, FROM TOP ABOVE Rashwan Rocker, 2015. places them at host organizations to leave Syria, shuttling between Abdelbaki in his and arts centers in countries , , and Damascus for studio at AAR, and BELOW where they can safely continue years before settling, tenuously, at 2016 Opening Special Offer, 2015. their work and plan for their in Beirut in 2014. Since then he Reception with Kimberly Bowes, future. The APF was inspired by has participated in a number of AAR Director, and the IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund, group shows in and the other Fellows. through which persecuted aca- UK, and had a solo exhibition, demics have been given fellow- Light Up the Darkness, at Dar Al ships to continue their research Mussawir in Beirut in 2014. in freedom and safety at universi- Rashwan will be in residence ties across the globe. at the Academy through January Recognizing that the Academy 2017, after which he will spend is an ideal venue for an artist in the next eight months of his APF need of a safe and inspirational Fellowship in place to live and work, the AAR hosted by ArteEast. was one of the first organizations to respond to the IIE’s call to host an APF Fellow. With additional support from the Embassy of the United States of America in Italy, it welcomed visual artist

22 Fall/Winter 2016 23 This fall and winter, on stages in Rome and across THE FALL 2016–2017 SEASON the United States, thought leaders are coming together to talk about the classic ideas, texts, 27 SEPTEMBER IN ROME songs, and images that define what it means to be Ping Chong & Hou Hanru American. The events compose the newest season of All Islands Connect Underwater the Conversations/Conversazioni series, which convenes leading scholars, artists, designers, writers, and WHAT WE musicians for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a range of topics in the arts and humanities. 5 OCTOBER IN NEW YORK CITY The season is made possible by a major grant Michael Bierut & Michael Rock from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, which Branding: will serve as season sponsor for the next two years. Designing America Helen Frankenthaler (1928–­2011), long recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth TALK ABOUT century, had a profound impact on American art and a lifelong love of discussion and discourse. 18 OCTOBER IN ROME “This gift reflects the Foundation’s interest in sup- Colm Tóibín & Sara Antonelli porting projects that perpetuate the spirit of her life On Henry James and work,” said Clifford Ross, chairman of the Helen Patricia H. Labalme Friends Frankenthaler Foundation, and Elizabeth Smith, of the Library Lecture executive director, in a joint statement. “We look WHEN WE forward to the cross-disciplinary­ exchange of ideas that will emerge from these upcoming programs.” 9 NOVEMBER IN NEW YORK CITY This season’s events share the theme of Daniel Mendelsohn & “American Classics.” Ping Chong (2017 Resident) Kimberly Bowes discussed outsider experiences with Hou Hanru. Sex and the City: Michael Bierut (2016 Resident) and Michael Rock (2000 Ancient Fellow and AAR Trustee) talked about the power and Modern TALK ABOUT of branding in America. Colm Tóibín and Sara Antonelli shared their perspectives on the American-born writer Henry James. And scholars Daniel Mendelsohn 13 JANUARY IN HOUSTON (2010 Affiliated Fellow) and Kimberly Bowes (AAR Amy Sillman & Toby Kamps Director and 2006 Fellow) discussed the relation- ship between American ideals and those of the ancient world. AMERICA This is the third season of Conversations/ Conversazioni, which launched in 2014. “At AAR, we see daily how experts from different disciplines often find the most profound resonances between i For more informa- The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation their interests,” said Mark Robbins, AAR President tion on upcoming (and 1997 Fellow). “We launched Conversations to events, visit aarome. sponsors a new season of conversations extend that spirit of exchange, and to share it with org/events/series. on “American Classics” people across the globe.” Previous seasons have All events are free and open to the featured such people as André Aciman (2015 Resident), public, but seating Jeanne Gang (2016 Resident), Mary Margaret Jones (1998 may be limited. Fellow and chair of the AAR Board of Trustees), David Kertzer (2000 Resident and AAR Trustee), David Lang (2017 Resident, 1991 Fellow), Sally Mann, Nico Muhly, Francine Prose (2006 Resident and AAR Trustee), and Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow). Ping: Adam Nadel; Bierut: Fontshop; Rock: GSAPPstudent; Tóibín: Jeremy Weate; Mendelsohn: David Shankbone; Bowes: Davide Franceschini; Sillman: Mossigail; Kamps: © Jenny Antill. Mendelsohn: David Shankbone; Bowes: Davide Bierut: Fontshop; Rock: GSAPPstudent; Tóibín: Jeremy Weate; Adam Nadel; Ping:

24 Fall/Winter 2016 25 ROSBEEF (ROAST BEEF) Serves 6

FROM OUR 1 (3–4 lb / 1.4–1.8 kg) boneless eye round roast, salted 12 to 24 hours in advance Kosher salt TABLE 2 tbsp vegetable oil, divided A new cookbook shares favorite meals Trim the meat of silverskin and connective tissue. Season generously with salt and from AAR’s famous kitchen allow to rest in the refrigerator for 12 to 24 hours. This will allow the salt to penetrate and begin to tenderize the meat. Top and middle right: Davide Franceschini; all other photographs: Annie Schlechter. all other Franceschini; and middle right: Davide Top

When you are ready to cook, use butcher’s twine to tie the meat into a uniform roast. This will help to cook it evenly and will provide for more regular slices.

Preheat the oven to 225°F (105°C).

Chris Behr, head chef at AAR’s Rome Sustainable Food Blot the meat with paper towels to remove Project (RSFP), has written a new cookbook filled any moisture (this will encourage better browning). Use your hands to rub 1 table- with recipes from the Academy’s famous kitchen. spoon of oil all over the meat. Beloved by Fellows, Residents, guests, and staff alike, the recipes share a memorable part of the AAR Heat a large skillet. Once it is hot, add the experience with the world. remaining tablespoon of oil to the pan. Add the meat and sear it, maintaining a The RSFP was founded in 2007, under the guid- medium heat as you turn it on all sides to ance of Alice Waters, to provide the community of the achieve a light golden brown, about 10 American Academy in Rome with seasonal, nutri- minutes. Do not sear the meat too quickly, tious, and delicious food that nourishes scholarship or the outside of the meat will become tough and stringy. and conviviality. Family-style meals are an essential part of Rome Prize fellowships and residencies. Once the meat is seared completely, Twice a day, scholars, artists, designers, composers, put it on a wire rack set in a roasting pan and writers convene to share a meal prepared by and put it in the oven. Roast for 1½ to 2 hours, until the meat reaches an internal the RSFP kitchen. It’s an opportunity to take a break temperature of 120°F (50°C). Remove from their individual work to converse, exchange the pan from the oven, tent the beef with ideas, and discover new interests. Arguably some of aluminum foil, and allow it to rest for at the most important cross-disciplinary work pro- least 30 minutes before serving. duced at AAR traces its origins to a shared meal. Carne, which was released in October 2016, i Carne is available focuses on secondi (main course) meat dishes but at bookstores and also includes several vegetable contorni (side dishes) shop.aarome.org. and a section on the basics of Roman cooking. “Meat Other books in is actually scarce in our kitchen, and we like it that the series include Biscotti, Zuppe, way,” said Behr, whose emphasis on nutrition and Pasta, and Verdure. sustainability usually favors vegetables and grains. “But there are times when we all gather to eat grand dinners, often revolving around a large piece of meat. The meat is the centerpiece of what we hope will be a long-remembered special occasion.”

26 ROMAN NUMERALS: A LENS ON GREEK HISTORY Last August, AAR President Mark Robbins visited the American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Rome Sustainable Food Project (RSFP) celebrates Organic produce is grown and harvested at AAR (ASCSA) and several archaeological sites in Greece its tenth anniversary in February 2017. Here’s what the each season: with noted archaeologist Dr. Charles K. Williams, AAR kitchen has been up to: Trustee and Director Emeritus of the Corinth Excavations conducted by ASCSA. The trip high- lighted the work of archaeologists in reconstructing history and the type of reasoning required to inter- pret building fragments and artifacts as evidence. This iterative process, which often requires entirely 17 100 new narratives in relation to new discoveries, par- allels the open-endedness of creative and scholarly kilograms of cicoria (chicory) staff work across disciplines.

TOP RIGHT LEFT On the way to Corinth from Assistant Director Emerita of The museum in Athens, Charles Williams the Corinth Excavations. Lolos, the Stoa of Attalos (center) describes his ideas who attended AAR’s Classical houses significant about this excavated rubble Summer School, leads the field finds from the at Sikyon to professor Yannis team at Sikyon. ASCSA’s excava- 35,000 44 Lolos and Nancy Bookidis, tions in the Agora meals per year liters of nocino of Athens, which began in 1931 and continue today. 40 120 kilos of pasta per week kilos of citrus 22 –24 liters of olive oil per week Photos by Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow) Photos by Mark Robbins (1997

ABOVE RIGHT This version of the statue Ongoing restoration and of Aphrodite, 2nd c. AD, at conservation work on the the National Archaeological Parthenon. 163 Museum of Athens, was RSFP Interns since 2007 restored by neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757–1822).

28XXVIII AAR Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 29 CONVIVIUM: DONORS:

New York Gala This publication is generously supported by $25,000 and above Moncler SpA the New Initiatives for Don Fund, a gift of American Academy of Arts and Letters Catriona and Simon Mordant AM The AAR held its annual New York Maria R. Cox, and Jessie and Charles Price. Cynthia and Ron Beck Helen Nagy FAAR’86, RAAR’09, and Suzanne Deal Booth Eric Lindgren City Gala on April 20 at the Four We thank the following for their support of Jim and Katie Brennan Susan and Peter Nitze Seasons Restaurant. The event the American Academy in Rome (March 15, Vincent and Linda Buonanno Nancy and John Novogrod honored historian Anthony Grafton, 2016–September 30, 2016). Cary Davis and John McGinn Prince and Princess Domenico Orsini food activist and writer Alice Sharon Davis Beth K. Pfeiffer Enel Foundation Anne Jacques Phelps Waters, and architects Tod Williams Mary and Howard Frank Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky and Billie Tsien for their contribu- William B. Hart and Constance Eaton Michael C. J. Putnam, FAAR’64, RAAR’70, tions to the arts and humanities. Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Kenneth Gaulin 1 2 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hyman Peter G. Rolland, FAAR’78, FASLA 1. Ursula von Rydingsvard, Tod Williams, Billie Rachel Jacoff, RAAR’11 Joel Shapiro, RAAR’99 Tsien, Mark Robbins, Cary Davis, Alice Waters, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Brian S. Snyder Anthony Grafton, and Ann Blair. 2. Cary Davis Karen Levy and Paul S. Levy Taodue Film and Amy Cappellazo. 3. Robert A. M. Stern Allison and Roberto Mignone Terra Foundation for American Art and Blythe Mayne. 4. Calvin Tsao and Billie National Endowment for the Arts Mrs. Wade F. Thompson Tsien. 5. Charles Price and Jessie Price. Nancy M. O’Boyle Billie Tsien, RAAR’00, and Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli Tod Williams, FAAR’83 Mr. and Mrs. H. Charles Price Valentino SpA John F. W. Rogers David H. Wright, RAAR’92 Shonni J. Silverberg and John M. Shapiro Barbara and David Zalaznick Speyer Family Foundation Tiffany & Co. Italia S.p.A. $1,000–$9,999 FAAR’97 3 4 5 Calvin Tsao Kimberly A. Ackert, United States Embassy in Rome Diane C. Ahl, RAAR’13 Stephen Killcoyne Rome Gala $10,000–$24,999 Jessica Amelar Archaeological Institute of America Margherita and Eugenio Amos On June 9 in Rome, the McKim Giorgio Armani Polly E. Apfelbaum, FAAR’13 and David and Judith Barrett Stanley T. Allen Medal Gala was celebrated, Olivier and Desiree Berggruen The Barrington Foundation, Inc. honoring poet Patrizia Cavalli and Bloomberg L.P. James Barron Thomas A. Blount Briony and Simon Bax songwriter and producer Giorgio 2 Nicola and Beatrice Bulgari Dr. Larry Thomas Bell, FAAR’83 Moroder. The star-studded evening Citi Dr. Paul Bentel, and included cocktails in Villa Aurelia Credit Suisse Dr. Carol Rusche Bentel, FAAR’94 and an after-party disco. Daniela Memmo D’Amelio Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Livio Borghese 1. The 2016 McKim Medal Gala. The Laura and Walter Elcock Paul M. Bray, FAAR’97 2. Alejandra Silva, Roberta Armani, Family Foundation Professor Martin Brody, RAAR’02, and Ginevra Elkann Gaetani, and Richard Gere. Ettinger Foundation Professor Katharine Park 3. The after-party. 4. Bernardo Bertolucci 1 3 Fendi Sandro and Marella Chia and Richard Gere. 5. Mark Robbins, Giorgio Gagosian Gallery Ms. Alexandra Champalimaud and Moroder, Patrizia Cavalli, and Mika. Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners Mr. Bruce W. Schnitzer Gucci Walter Chatham, FAAR’89 Mirella Petteni Haggiag Licia and Michael Conforti, Alexa Hampton and Pavlos Papageorgiou FAAR’76, RAAR’08 Christian Louboutin Anthony P. Corbeill, FAAR’95 Maire Tecnimont SpA Myrna and Paul Davis, FAAR’98, RAAR’15 Dr. Peggy McEvoy Sharon Davis Blake Middleton, FAIA, FAAR’82 and Alberto and Verdella de Benedictis Dr. Martha Eddy Nicola Del Roscio 4 5

30 Fall/Winter 2016 31 Barbara Parodi Delfino Jonathan M. Nadler AAR Patron Members The McKim & Morgan Society, named for Joseph H. Aronson, FAAR’74 Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Lamb III, FAAR’70 Emanuela di Lorenzo Badia Nautilus Foundation, Inc. founders Charles Follen McKim and J. Dr. Paul Arpaia, FAAR’08 Leila Laughlin and Daniel Javitch, Judith Di Maio, FAAR’78, RAAR’09 Susan Nimoy Chairman’s Council Pierpont Morgan, is composed of individuals Andrew N. Baer and Elizabeth Freeman FAAR’90, RAAR’96 Helen Drutt English and H. Peter Stern Guido Nola Suzanne Deal Booth who have made a commitment to the future Beryl Barr-Sharrar William Levitan, FAAR’88, and Debra Nails Craig Dykers, RAAR’15, and Elaine Molinar Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, FAAR’98, William B. Hart and Constance Eaton of the American Academy in Rome by includ- Mr. Robert Beaser, FAAR’78, RAAR’11 Carol F. Lewine Mr. and Mrs. Yohan Benjamin Fadlun and Guy J. P. Nordenson, RAAR’09 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hyman ing the Academy in their estate plans. Dr. Larry Thomas Bell, FAAR’83 Elizabeth Locke and John Staelin Jennifer and William H. Fain, Jr., FAAR’02 Richard M. Olcott, FAAR’04, and Nancy M. O’Boyle Mary Jo and Richard C. Bell, Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs, FAAR’64 Nicole and Alberto Fanni Betsy Ennis Alexander and Jeanne Sloane We thank the following Society Members FAAR’53, RAAR’75 Annette and Craig McGhee Diane Favro, RAAR’15, and Patrick Oliphant and for their commitments (as of September Mirka Benes Melissa Meyer, FAAR’81 Fikret K. Yegül, RAAR’98 Susan Conway Oliphant President’s Council 30, 2016): Ludmilla Bidwell Chas A. Miller, III and Birch Coffey Lynn D. Feintech and Anthony Bernhardt Jorge Otero-Pailos David and Judith Barrett Thomas L. Bosworth, FAAR’81 Judith and Henry A. Millon, Carla Fendi and Delfina Delettrez Fendi Marion Franchetti Schiavone Panni and Allston Chapman Mr. Charles G. Brickbauer, FAAR’57 FAAR’60, RAAR’66 Alberta Ferretti Francesco Schiavone Panni Alexa Hampton and Pavlos Papageorgiou Mr. Steven Brooke, FAAR’91 Bitsie and Grover E. Mouton, FAAR’73 Bonnie Fisher Paul Kasmin Gallery Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84 Patricia Fortini Brown, FAAR’90, RAAR’01 Kathy Muehlemann, FAAR’88, and Ronald L. Fleming Lauren Hackworth Petersen, FAAR’99, Dr. Peggy McEvoy Caroline A. Bruzelius, FAAR’86, RAAR’89 James Muehlemann, FAAR’82 Ileana Franchetti and Stephen Petersen Susan and Peter Nitze Dr. Virginia Bush Suttman, FAAR’77 Gwynn Murrill, FAAR’80 Carmela Vircillo Franklin Barbara G. Pine Beth K. Pfeiffer Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR’84, and Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09, and Elizabeth Freeman and Andrew N. Baer Linda Pollak, FAAR’04 Anne Jacques Phelps John Guare, RAAR’13 Eric Lindgren Garden Club of America Kelly D. Powell, FAAR’02 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Chuck Close, RAAR’96 Susan and Peter Nitze Valeria and Giovanni Giuliani Charles Renfro Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Mrs. Sophie Chandler Consagra Laurie Nussdorfer, FAAR’81, and Barbara L. Goldsmith Foundation Louise Rice Jane W. Crawford, FAAR’82, RAAR’96, and Nicholas Adams, FAAR’88 Alexander C. Gorlin, FAAR’84 Mark Robbins, FAAR’97, and Bernard Frischer, FAAR’74, RAAR’97 Nancy M. O’Boyle Camillo Greco Brett Seamans Daryl and Robert S. Davis, FAAR’91 James E. Packer, FAAR’64 Janie and Jeffrey Green Elizabeth and Jon Roberts David G. De Long, RAAR’98 Paul R. V. Pawlowski, FAAR’69, and Agnes Gund Diana Robin, FAAR’88 Judith Di Maio, FAAR’78, RAAR’09 Ingrid Anderson G. W. Haas and George J. Moeschlin Ettore Rosboch Suzanne and Ronald L. Dirsmith, FAAR’60 Beverly Pepper, RAAR’86 Abby Hamlin C. Brian Rose FAAR’92, RAAR’12 Francine du Plessix Gray, RAAR’80 Catherine and William L. Plumb, FAAR’86 Mrs. Mark Hampton Janet Ross Harry B. Evans, FAAR’73, RAAR’91 Michael C. J. Putnam, FAAR’64, RAAR’70, Stephen Harby, FAAR’00 Paola Santarelli Diane Favro, RAAR’15, and and Mr. Kenneth Gaulin Ursula M. Heibges, FAAR’66 Michael Schwarting Fikret K. Yegül, RAAR’98 Cynthia Pyle, FAAR’78, and Richard Kayne Kristen Hellstrom Antonio Sersale James L. Franklin Jr., FAAR’75 Dr. W. G. Rainer M.D., P.C. Bruce Horten Susan Sellers and Michael Rock, FAAR’00 Warren Bryan Fuermann Peter G. Rolland, FAAR’78, FASLA IC Bellagio Roberto Sessa Professor Katherine A. Geffcken, FAAR’55 C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12 J.P. Morgan Severud Architects Consulting Frank S. Gilligan Susan C. Salay Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown Engineers, P.C. John W. Haeger Martica R. Sawin Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98, and Anne Shea Mrs. Mark Hampton Peter F. Smith, FAAR’69 Douglas Argue, FAAR’98 Cathy Simon, RAAR’16 Ann Hartman Pamela F. Starr, FAAR’84 Susan and David Kertzer, RAAR’00 Peter F. Smith, FAAR’69 George E. Hartman, FAAR’78, RAAR’96, James Timberlake FAAR’83, FAIA George Knight, AIA Frank Snowden, Jr., RAAR’03 and Jan Cigliano and Ms. Marguerite Rodgers Ms. Miyoung E. Lee and Barry S. Strauss, RAAR’13 Louise K. Hirschfeld and Lewis B. Cullman Sara Little Turnbull Mr. Neil P. Simpkins Robert A. M. Stern Professor Richard J. Hoffman, FAAR’72 James R. Turner, FAAR’76 Carol F. Lewine Eileen Tasca Susan R. Hughson and Ann Weber Dorothy Lichtenstein Sonia and Francesco Tatò George A. Hinds, FAAR’84, AIA Ms. Phoebe Dent Weil, RAAR’07 Gina Lin Gil Shiva John W. Hyland, Jr. Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, RAAR’82 Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects The Thorne Foundation James R. Jarrett, FAAR’59 Irma Giustino Weiss Robert Manley Luca Virgilio, Hotel Eden Shirley Ferguson Jenks Charles Witke, FAAR’62, RAAR’98, and Liora Manné Brenda Way, RAAR’09, and Henry Erlich Robert J. Jergens, FAAR’63 Aileen Gatten Catherine and William McGurn Lorraine and Adam Weinberg Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84 T. C. Price Zimmerman Mecaer Aviation Group - Dana English and Thomas Whalen Ms. Buff Kavelman Anonymous (2) Alessandra Pasqua Will Bruder Architects, Ltd. Richard G. Kenworthy, FAAR’70 John J. Medveckis Fred D. Wilson G. N. Knauer, RAAR’85, and Kezia Knauer Gregory Miller Charles Witke and Aileen Gatten Ms. Marjorie E. Kreilick-McNab, FAAR’63 Joe Mizzi, Sciame Construction, LLC Anonymous (3) Lisa Kressbach Stacey and Robert Morse Anne Laidlaw, FAAR’61, RAAR’76

32 Fall/Winter 2016 33 FELLOWS: The 2016–2017 Rome Prize winners

ANCIENT STUDIES ARCHITECTURE Charles K. Williams II Rome Prize Marian and Andrew Heiskell/Samuel H. Kress RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES 2016–­ 2017 ITALIAN FELLOWS STELLA NAIR Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize** Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman/ Founders Rome Prize Associate Professor, Department JOHN LANSDOWNE Donald and Maria Cox Post-Doctoral Italian Fellow in Medieval Studies National Endowment for the Humanities PHU HOANG & RACHELY ROTEM of Art History, University of California, Department of Art and Archaeology, Rome Prize SILVIA ARMANDO Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Directors, MODU Los Angeles Princeton University KATHLEEN CHRISTIAN Independent Scholar, Rome DORIAN BORBONUS Hoang: Assistant Professor Adjunct, Rome in the Andes: The Impact Image Made Flesh: The Micromosaic Senior Lecturer, Department of Art History, L’Oriente è paese dalle molte vite e dalle Associate Professor, Department Graduate School of Architecture, Planning of the Classical World on Inca Man of Sorrows at Santa Croce in The Open University molte storie. Ugo Monneret de Villard and of History, University of Dayton and Preservation, Columbia University Architectural History Gerusalemme in Rome Michelangelo’s Bacchus, Cardinal The Art and Archaeology of the Medieval The Tombs of Rome: Burial and History The Mutating Weathers of Rome’s Ruins Raffaele Riario, and the Culture of World in the First Half of the 20th Century in the Center of Power LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Phyllis W.G. Gordan/Lily Auchincloss/ Antiquarianism in Renaissance Rome Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Italian Fellow in Literature Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ROBERT HUTCHISON Prince Charitable Trusts/ Rome Prize* Jesse Howard, Jr./Andrew W. Mellon ANDREA BAJANI Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Principal, Robert Hutchison Architecture, Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize JOSEPH WILLIAMS Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Writer, Turin CAROLINE CHEUNG and Affiliate Assistant Professor, KRISTI CHERAMIE Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art, Art ROBERT JOHN CLINES The Forgiveness Machine Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Group in University of Washington Department Associate Professor of Landscape History, and Visual Studies, Duke University Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archae- of Architecture Architecture, the Knowlton School of The Practice and Production of Architecture History, Western Carolina University Italian Fellow in Modern/Contemporary ology, University of California, Berkeley Drawing the Liminal City Architecture, The Ohio State University during the Mediterranean Commercial The Culture of Conversion: A Jewish Jesuit Italian Studies Storage and Packaging for an Empire: Recovering Lost Worlds: A Natural Revolution: The Church of S. Corrado in in the Early Modern Mediterranean MILENA BELLONI Agricultural Economies of West- Founders/Arnold W. Brunner/ History of Erasure Molfetta (ca. 1185–1303) Department of Sociology and Social Central Italy, c. 200 BCE–200 CE Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Paul Mellon/Frank Brown Pre-Doctoral Research, University of Trento YASMIN VOBIS Garden Club of America Rome Prize MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES Rome Prize Cosmologies of Destinations: Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Principal, Ultramoderne, and JASON SIEBENMORGEN LEON P. GREK Understanding Contemporary Asylum KEVIN DICUS Critic, Rhode Island School of Design Senior Associate, Michael Van National Endowment for the Humanities Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Com- Flows Through Italy to Europe Assistant Professor, Department Disciplining Colore Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. Post-Doctoral Rome Prize parative Literature, Princeton University of Classics, University of Oregon From Ancient Italy to Urban Parks Today: JESSICA MARGLIN Staging the Cosmopolis: Comedy and Cy Twombly Italian Fellow in Visual Arts Waste not Waste: Managing Garbage DESIGN A Study of the Role of Plants in Italian Assistant Professor, School of Religion and Translation in Republican Rome and Early TOMASO DE LUCA in the Roman City Gardens and Their Influence on Urban Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair Modern London Artist, and New York Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Park Design in Jewish Studies, University of A Single Man Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Rome Prize Southern California VISUAL ARTS ANDREW HORNE KYLE DECAMP LITERATURE Nationality on Trial: Italy, Tunisia, and the Enel Italian Fellow in Architecture/ Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Classics, Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence, Making of the Modern Mediterranean Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell/ Landscape Architecture University of Chicago Drew University; Adjunct Lecturer, John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, Miss Edith Bloom Fund Rome Prize ANNALISA METTA Freedom and the Human Being: Department of Theatre, Barnard College a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Millicent Mercer Johnsen E. V. DAY Assistant Professor in Landscape Libertas in Cicero and Horace “here where the bridge floats” JACK LIVINGS Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Artist Architecture, Department of Architecture, Writer DANIELLE SIMON Bernini’s Twist Roma Tre University Emeline Hill Richardson/Samuel H. Kress Mark Hampton Rome Prize Untitled novel-in-progress Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music, Southward_When Rome Will Have Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship DAVID REINFURT University of California, Berkeley Chuck Close/Gilmore D. Clarke/ Gone To Tunis of the Archaeological Institute of America Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, La Voce della Radio: Opera and the Radio in Michael I. Rapuano/ Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize** Princeton University a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Italy, 1931–1960 John Armstrong Chaloner Rome Prize Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow JENNY R. KREIGER Design as Art: Bruno Munari Academy of Arts and Letters NICOLE MILLER in Musicology Interdepartmental Program and Adriano Olivetti MATTHEW NEILL NULL MUSICAL COMPOSITION Artist GIUSEPPE SERGI in Classical Art and Archaeology, Writer Rome Department of Musical Languages HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION How Much Water Does a Man Need? Elliott Carter Rome Prize and New Technologies, Conservatory The Business of Commemoration: JONATHAN BERGER Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize of Sassari A Comparative Study of Italian Catacombs Booth Family Rome Prize MEDIEVAL STUDIES Composer and Professor, Department MICHAEL QUEENLAND The Influence of Jazz on the Italian GREGORY BAILEY of Music, Stanford University Artist, Los Angeles, CA Song Between the World Wars Irene Rosenzweig/Lily Auchincloss/ Assistant Conservator, Walters Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rime Sparse, and Todt Durch A Physical Journalism Samuel H. Kress Foundation Art Museum Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Detranken (Death by Drowning) Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize* An Investigation of the Craft Origins HUSSEIN FANCY Jules Guerin Rome Prize SOPHIE CRAWFORD WATERS and Technology of ‘Venetian’ Enamels Associate Professor, Department of Luciano Berio Rome Prize ENRICO RILEY Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Group in the on Copper History, University of Michigan CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI Artist and Associate Professor, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean The Outlaw Sea: The Making of the Department of Music, Columbia University Department of Studio Art, World, University of Pennsylvania Medieval Mediterranean Recording Islands, Transcribing Mosaics Dartmouth College * year one of a two-year fellowship Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas The Black Body as Infinite Receptor ** year two of a two-year fellowship and Cultural Memory in Republican Italy

34 Fall/Winter 2016 35 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 fall. The winners, selected by independent juries through a national Kimberly Bowes, FAAR’06, competition process, are invited to Rome the following year to Director* pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and Jim Brennan Martin Brody, RAAR’02 AAR 1 artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange. Awards are Vincent J. Buonanno 4 offered in the following categories: Literature, Music Composition, Anthony P. Corbeill, FAAR’95 6 Visual Arts, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Cary J. Davis Historic Preservation and Conservation, as well as Ancient, Medieval, Sharon Davis Ginevra Elkann Gaetani Renaissance and Early Modern, and Modern Italian Studies. The Mary E. Frank Academy also invites a select group of Residents, Affiliated Fellows, Lyle Ashton Harris, FAAR’01 and Visiting Artists and Scholars to work together within this excep- Walter J. Hood, FAAR’97, RAAR’14 tional community in Rome. Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98, 5 Chair Thomas F. Kelly, FAAR’86, RAAR’02 Fondata nel 1894, l’American Academy in Rome è il più antico centro amer- David I. Kertzer, RAAR’00 icano fuori dagli Stati Uniti dedicato allo studio indipendente e alla David A. Lang, FAAR’91 ricerca avanzata nelle arti e nelle discipline umanistiche. L’Accademia Paul S. Levy Thom Mayne 2 è un’istituzione senza scopo di lucro finanziata grazie all’appoggio di William B. McGurn, III privati che offre ogni anno la borsa di studio Rome Prize a un gruppo Roberto A. Mignone di artisti e studiosi. Il processo di selezione è affidato a un concorso Simon D. Mordant AM Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09 3 nazionale negli Stati Uniti che prende avvio in autunno e che si avvale Nancy Novogrod della valutazione di giurie indipendenti: i vincitori sono invitati a James J. Pallotta Roma a condurre il proprio lavoro in un’atmosfera di libertà intel- Kelly D. Powell, FAAR’02* Jessie H. Price Now serving her final year as Director 3 5 lettuale e artistica e di scambio interdisciplinare. La borsa di studio Francine C. Prose, RAAR’06 CATACOMBS THE ROMAN HOUSES UNDER premia persone che operano nelle arti (architettura, architettura of the American Academy in Rome, Mark Robbins, FAAR’97, The mandatory tours are goofy and Kim Bowes shares her favorite places del paesaggio, arti visive, composizione musicale, conservazione e President* often full of wrong information, but the Via Foro Traiano 85 in Rome. restauro dei beni storico-artistici, design e letteratura) e nelle Michael Rock, FAAR’00 experience is unforgettable—the cramped Now one of the premier experiences in John F.W. Rogers dark hallways with their shelves of tombs Rome, this light-and-sound-show tour discipline umanistiche (studi classici, medievali, sul Rinascimento C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12, PLACES TO VISIT are more evocative than anything I know of an elite Roman house is fun for kids e sulla prima età moderna, e sull’Italia moderna). L’Accademia, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the nasty, brutish, and short aspects and adults and archaeologists alike. Be 1 inoltre, invita a Roma alcuni prestigiosi esponenti delle arti e degli Louisa Stude Sarofim of Roman life. San Callisto and San warned, though: book well in advance and studi umanistici (Residenti), borsisti scelti in collaborazione con John M. Shapiro, CORVIALE Sebastiano are right next to one another the tour lasts an hour, mostly in the dark. Vice Chairman Via Poggio Verde, 389 on the Via Appia; others are near the Ages 6+ enjoy it most. www.palazzo altre importanti istituzioni e un selezionato gruppo di altri artisti e Frank M. Snowden, RAAR’03 1980’s housing project on the southwest Academy at , San Agnese. valentini.it/domus-romane/index-en.html studiosi a unirsi e a lavorare insieme ai Borsisti all’interno della David M. Stone, FAAR’98 edges of the city. A monster of a building www.catacombe.roma.it/en/ nostra eccezionale comunità. at some 1km in length and long a symbol 6 Robert Storr Calvin Tsao, RAAR’10 of crime and urban decay, I love it for its PLACES FOR FAMILIES EXPLORA Adam D. Weinberg people—resilient, adaptable—and the Via Flaminia, 80/86 To learn more, please visit: Charles K. Williams II absolutely Roman scale of the thing: love Our son has spent his second through The kids museum of Rome on the Via AAROME.ORG Tod C. Williams, FAAR’83 or hate it, you’ll never forget it. seventh years in Rome. Here are some of Flaminia. A “please-touch” museum with Fred Wilson his favorite places: everything from a fire truck and grocery 2 Barbara Zalaznick store to math and science games. Avoid CASE ROMANE 4 the afternoons on weekends: timed entry LIFE TRUSTEE Clivo di Scauro. CASTEL SANT’ANGELO you can book online. www.mdbr.it/en/ Underneath the church of San Giovanni e Our son loves running around the labyrin- Michael C.J. Putnam, FAAR’64, RAAR’70 Paolo. Some of the best preserved Roman thine spaces, the spooky Hadrianic tomb Kim is an archaeologist specializing in houses in Rome, and a great story of chamber, and the top with its amazing the archaeology of late antique religions, pagan/Christian relations in the century views. www.castelsantangelo.com domestic architecture, and Roman eco- FAAR Fellow, American Academy in Rome after Christianity first becomes a legal nomics. She also served as the Andrew W. RAAR Resident, American Academy in Rome religion. www.caseromane.it/en/ Mellon Professor in Charge of the School * ex officio of Classical Studies from 2012–2014. List current as of November 1, 2016.

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COVER Jeannette Montgomery Barron. June 7th, 2013, Rome. Archival pigment print, 20 × 20 cm. See p. 14.