AAR Magazine Spring Summer 2021`

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME MAGAZINE SPRING/ SUMMER 2021 A Message from the Chair of the Board of Trustees It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year since the world paused. Thank you for your continued commitment to AAR in what I’m sure we will remember as one of society’s most challenging moments. Your time, expertise, guidance, and financial support have all been instrumental in seeing the Academy through this period. I’d also like to thank Mark Robbins and the whole team, especially those on the ground in Rome, for their incredible dedication to navigating the ups, downs, and surprises this past year has brought. Turning to today, the Academy has successfully reopened and the selection process for next year’s fellowship class is complete. AAR is in a much stronger position than I could have imagined when the full pandemic crisis became clear in March 2020. Our finances are stable and (with vaccinations) we believe that by the fall our activities will be close to fully restored. One of the many downsides of this past year has been the lack of direct connection, and we look forward to future gatherings in person, here and in Rome.

With appreciation and gratitude,

Cary Davis Chair, AAR Board of Trustees SPRING/SUMMER 2021

UP FRONT FEATURES

2 20 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT SEEING THE ANCIENT WORLD AAR receives major gift of photographs 4 by Carole Raddato FAR AFIELD Checking in with past Fellows and Residents 24 GIVING FOR THE AGES 6 Richard E. Spear and Athena Tacha INTRODUCING underwrite a new Rome Prize The 2020–2021 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows 26 IN THE FLOW 10 Current Fellows reveal what’s happening FROM THE ARCHIVES in their studios and studies Astra Zarina was the first woman to be awarded the Academy’s architecture fellowship 40 ON THE ROAD, OFF THE BEATEN PATH 11 Streetscapes brings site-specific works to the ROMAN NUMERALS Janiculum Hill

12 44 CONVERSATIONS/CONVERSAZIONI CELEBRATING THE CITY This season’s discussions via Zoom AAR’s season of events draws to a close in Rome and the US 46 13 SOUND AND MUSIC IN THE ALUMINUM FOREST IN RESIDENCE Sonic installations come to the gardens Spotlighting recent Residents of the Villa Aurelia

IN CLOSING

52 CONVIVIUM Membership opportunities at AAR

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60 WHEN IN ROME Mellon Humanities Professor Lynne Lancaster and Tom Carpenter share their favorite places in the Eternal City LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT:

Fiumi di parole sono stati detti o scritti su questi ultimi diciotto mesi—sulla concomitanza di grandi lutti e speranza, di alienazione, sulla storia della vio- lenza e la maggiore consapevolezza della necessità del contatto sociale. Ci ricordano l’importanza di leggere la storia come fosse una guida per interpre- tare la vita di oggi; studiosi e artisti contribuiscono con il loro spirito critico all’esplorazione del passato e del presente. Il tema di quest’anno dell’Academy è “La città”. I centri urbani come Roma e New York sono stati So much has been said and written about these past modellati dai commerci e dal movimento di persone, eighteen months—about the coincidence of great e così anche lo scambio di idee nuove e difficili. È loss and hope, of alienation, the history of violence, quindi quanto mai opportuno analizzare questo and a greater recognition of the need for social con- argomento in un anno in cui abbiamo dovuto riflet- tact. We are reminded of the importance of reading tere sulla distanza sociale e sul significato di comu- history as a guide to contemporary life; scholars and nità, accomunati dall’esperienza della pandemia artists bring critical faculties to bear, exploring the e da una nuova consapevolezza dell’ingiustizia in past and the present. senso storico e dei diritti di tutti i cittadini. This year’s theme at the Academy is “The City.” Questa istituzione esiste sotto varie forme dalla Urban places like Rome and New York were shaped sua fondazione nel 1984 e oggi l’Academy riflette by commerce and the movement of people, and with la complessità del nostro paese all’estero, impeg- this the exchange of new and difficult ideas. It is fit- nandosi in vari modi nella città di Roma, in Italia ting to examine this topic in a year in which we have e nel bacino del Mediterraneo in senso più ampio. thought about social distance and what it means to Il nostro Campus è sempre più un hub globale be a community—with the common experience of di creatività, discussione e dibattito, di cui ogni the pandemic and a renewed awareness of historic singolo individuo è parte integrante. È con grande injustice and the rights of all citizens. ottimismo che l’Academy ha riaperto in gennaio. This institution has existed in many forms since Malgrado i problemi, la comunità di Roma rimane its founding in 1894, and the Academy today reflects un luogo di intenso scambio. Ciascuno fra Borsisti e the complexity of our country abroad, engaging in Residenti osserva dalle proprie prospettive i luoghi many ways with the city of Rome, with Italy, and familiari, in linea questo con la tradizione che la with the broader Mediterranean. Our campus is an storia includa sia il presente che il futuro. increasingly global hub for creativity, discourse, and debate, of which each individual is an integral part. It was with great optimism that the Academy reopened in January. In spite of the challenges, the community in Rome remains a robust place of exchange. Each Fellow and Resident brings a perspective that sheds new light on familiar places, very much in the tradition of history informing the present and future.

Mark Robbins, President and CEO

2 AAR Magazine i Follow @robbinsm10 on Instagram for Mark’s perspective on all that’s happening at the American Academy in Rome.

OPPOSITE Mark Robbins during Trustees’ Week, June 2021. Photograph by Giorgio Benni.

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Spring/Summer 2021 3 FAR AFIELD:

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2021 fellowships to JAMES SIENA (2013 Resident) in fine arts and NINA C. YOUNG (2016 Fellow) in music composition.

SINCLAIR BELL, 2003 Fellow and former editor of the The Whitney Museum of American Art JULIE MEHRETU, Memoirs of is presenting a two-decade survey of Wind-Wind Field Drawings the American paintings and works on paper by 2020 (quarantine studio, d.h) #1, Academy Resident JULIE MEHRETU that originated at 2019–20, ink and acrylic on in Rome series, won a $60,000 NEH the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. paper, 26 × 40 in. Fellowship for his project “Race and Representation in the Roman Empire: Images of Aethiopians in Imperial Visual The University of and Material Culture.” Chicago Press has published The Eternal City: A Political theorist History of Rome and 2020 Resident in Maps by 2005 DANIELLE ALLEN won Fellow JESSICA MAIER. the 2020 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, CHANG-RAE LEE (2008 a $500,000 award administered by the Library of Congress that recognizes work in Resident) was given the disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prize. 2021 Award of Merit for the Novel, a $25,000 DAVID KARMON, 2016 Fellow and prize that honors an author of the new book Architecture outstanding writer who and the Senses in the Italian The Wall Street Journal reviewed represents excellence in Renaissance, has been appointed PAUL MANSHIP: Ancient Made Modern, a editor of the Journal of the Society Wadsworth Atheneum exhibition that the craft of the novel, by of Architectural Historians. reveals how this sculptor—a 1912 Fellow the American Academy and creator of AAR’s Cortile fountain— mastered his craft. of Arts and Letters. Mehretu: Private collection, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris. © Julie Mehretu. Mehretu: Private collection, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris.

4 AAR Magazine CORINNA GOSMARO (2021 Three 2009 Fellows— Italian Fellow) was among sixteen artists MARIE LORENZ (visual arts), to win an eleven-month residency at the DANA SPIOTTA (literature), Fiminco Foundation and KURT ROHDE (musical in Romainville, France. Her residency begins this September. composition)—won a 2021 Creative Capital

Johns Hopkins grant in opera and University named former sculpture for their project, AAR Director CHRISTOPHER CELENZA (1994 Fellow) Newtown Odyssey. vice provost for faculty affairs. ALISA LAGAMMA (2018 Affiliated Fellow) curated the highly praised exhibition CATHERINE BONESHO (2018 Fellow) has Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of received a 2021–22 academic year the Sahara for her home institution, the Among the recipients of the fellowship from the Frankel Center Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2021 American Academy for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where she will work on of Arts and Letters music her second book project, “Kings, awards are DAVID SANFORD Queens, and Caesars: Gentile (2003 Fellow), YOTAM Rulers in Early Jewish Literature.” HABER (2008 Fellow), LEI LIANG (2012 Fellow), ANNIE The Archaeological Institute of GOSFIELD (2016 Resident), America has appointed EMMA BLAKE (2013 Fellow) and Robert Schon and WILLIAM DOUGHERTY as the next joint editors-in-chief of (2021 Fellow). the American Journal of Archaeology.

WALTER HOOD (1997 Fellow) won a 2021 JACK LIVINGS (2017 Fellow) published his first novel The Blizzard Party, written fellowship in during his Rome Prize year, with Farrar, architecture Straus and Giroux. and design from United States Artists. SANFORD BIGGERS (2018 Fellow) showed his monumental Oracle sculpture and other works across the Rockefeller Center campus in New York. This public art exhibition, a partnership with the Art Production Fund, ran through July 12. Mehretu: Private collection, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris. © Julie Mehretu. Mehretu: Private collection, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris.

Spring/Summer 2021 5 INTRODUCING: ARCHITECTURE

Rome Prize in Architecture Germane Barnes Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami Structuring Blackness in Rome

Arnold W. Brunner/Frances Barker Tracy/ The 2021–2022 Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Mireille Roddier and Keith Mitnick Associate Professors, Taubman College, Rome Prize winners University of Michigan Six Architectures in Search of an Author and Italian Fellows DESIGN

Meet the American Academy in Rome’s newest group of scholars, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky artists, writers, and composers, representing some of the most Rome Prize talented minds in the United States and Italy. Mary Ellen Carroll Principal, MEC, studios, New York PUBBLICA UTILITÀ DUE (Designing and Architecting the Invisible—Radio Frequency in the Twenty-First Century)

ANCIENT STUDIES Mark Hampton/Jesse Howard Jr. Rome Prize National Endowment for the Humanities/ Jennifer Pastore Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Executive Photography Director, WSJ. Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Wall Street Journal Magazine), New York John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor, Do You Know? Italian Storytelling Traditions Department of Classics, Brown University and Emotional Resilience Epic Events HISTORIC PRESERVATION Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ AND CONSERVATION Helen M. Woodruff/Archaeological Institute of America Rome Prize Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize Kevin Ennis Carol Mancusi-Ungaro PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director Stanford University for Conservation and Research, Whitney Towards an Economic History of Women’s Museum of American Art Work: The Archaeology of Weaving in Sicily Artist/Conservator Nexus from Prehistory to the Republic Kevin Ennis’s project examines the Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize Emeline Hill Richardson/ household textile industry in Sicily from Sarah Nunberg Arthur Ross Rome Prize prehistory to the Republic to foreground Visiting Professor, Department of Grace Funsten the vital roles women played in systems Mathematics and Science, Pratt Institute PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, of production and consumption in Advancing Sustainable Practices in University of Washington antiquity. (Pictured: Lydian loom weight, Cultural Heritage Preservation En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy 6th century BC or later, terracotta, 2 in. in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and Metropolitan Museum of Art) Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize Louise Labé Ellen Pearlstein Professor, UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize Andrew Heiskell/ Program in the Conservation of John Izzo Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize Archaeological and Ethnographic PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, Adriana Maria Vazquez Materials and Department of Information Columbia University Assistant Professor, Department Studies, University of California, Tironian Notes: Literary and Historical of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles Studies on Marcus Tullius Tiro Los Angeles Conservation Consultation around Window Reception: Brazilian Neoclassical Indigenous American Materials— Poetry and Lusophone Classics across the View from Europe the Atlantic Báez: photograph by Timo Ohler. photograph by Timo Báez:

6 AAR Magazine Báez: photograph by Timo Ohler. Garden ClubofAmericaRomePrize and the Italian Landscape Ganymede’s Garden:Homoeroticism University of Virginia Department ofLandscapeArchitecture, History ofLandscapeArchitecture, the OrtoUrbano Promiscuous Cultures: Agroecology and Architecture, Universityof Texas atAustin Associate Professor, Schoolof Phoebe Lickwar Reuben M.RaineyProfessorin the Michael Lee Brewster RomePrize Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Orphans intheEraofCrusades Left Behind:Veterans, Widows,and Princeton University Lecturer, DepartmentofHistory, Randall Todd Pippenger Foundation RomePrize Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon The Greco-LatinPsalter Mirroring the Reflections oftheSoul: and Archaeology, PrincetonUniversity PhD Candidate,DepartmentofArt Erene RafikMorcos Donald andMariaCoxRomePrize Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ STUDIES MEDIEVAL A Girlfrom Pravda Avenue Literatures inEnglish,CornellUniversity Assistant Professor, Departmentof Valzhyna Mort Rome PrizeinLiterature To theRealizationofPerfectHelplessness English, Universityof Southern California Writer inResidence,Department of Robin CosteLewis a GiftoftheDrue Heinz Trust Joseph Brodsky RomePrize, Saturday Night At LungFung’s multimedia artist,NewYork Poet, novelist,playwright, and Jessica Hagedorn a GiftofDorothyandLewisB.Cullman John GuareWritersFundRomePrize, LITERATURE

Ebb and Flow, PastandPresent Composer, Chicago Igor Santos Samuel Barber Rome Prize MUSICAL COMPOSITION Black Mediterranean On Crisis, Culture, and the Where Blackness MeetstheSea: Los Angeles Studies, UniversityofCalifornia, Gender StudiesandAfricanAmerican Assistant Professor, Departmentof SA Smythe Rome PrizeinModernItalian Studies of AnalogFilm in theDigital Age #FilmIsAlive: Ferraniaandthe Lives and Cultures,Wayne StateUniversity and ModernLanguages,Literatures, Professor, Department of Classical Elena Past Rome PrizeinModernItalian Studies Century Italy and Transnational Identities inTwentieth- Remember toForget:Migration,Gender, Studies, CornellUniversity PhD Candidate,DepartmentofRomance Mary JaneDempsey Rome PrizeinModernItalian Studies STUDIES ITALIAN MODERN

Rome Prize Frederic A.Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Spring/Summer 2021 that weknowlieoutside its walls To seebeyonditandtoaccess theplaces Artist, Bronx Firelei Báez Philip GustonRomePrize ARTS VISUAL Performance ofReception Ariadne’s Echo:Voice, Memory, andthe Studies, NewYork University Associate Professor, DepartmentofItalian Eugenio Refini Rome Prize National Endowment for theHumanities Antiquarian Scholarship The MercantileOrigins of EarlyModern Princeton University PhD Candidate,DepartmentofHistory, Lillian Datchev Anthony M. ClarkRomePrize Marian andAndrewHeiskell/ STUDIES MODERN EARLY RENAISSANCE AND Shrill Advanced Study, HarvardUniversity Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Tina Tallon

Anacaona, of order, exiled, keeper Louise Coidavid, create site- of oil on canvas) (Pictured: detail underrepresented and asculptural specific paintings significant roles stories ofwomen Firelei Báezwill installation to tell history. within Italian who played

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, 7 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize 2021–2022 ITALIAN FELLOWS Dan-El Padilla Peralta Autumn Knight Associate Professor, Department of Artist, New York Enel Foundation Italian Fellow Classics, Princeton University Attention Economy in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture Verity Platt Philip Guston Rome Prize Alessio Battistella Professor, Department of Classics and Eric N. Mack Architect, ARCò – Architettura Department of Art History, and Chair, Artist, New York e Cooperazione, Milan Department of Classics, Cornell University In Austerity the work will be stripped from The Sustainable Lightness of the Limit its support and worn as a sarong Design Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Abigail Cohen Rome Prize Italian Fellow in Visual Arts Mark Lee, 2017 Resident (Jury Chair) Daniel Joseph Martinez Manuele Cerutti Founder and Partner, Johnston MarkLee, Donald Bren Professor of Art, Department Artist, Turin Los Angeles of Art, University of California, Irvine Secret Companions Forum Romanum of Dissent or To See Irma Boom, 2018 Resident The World Without Time Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Modern Founder and Principal, Irma Boom Office, Italian Studies Amsterdam Rome Prize in Visual Art Beatrice Falcucci La Nietas de Nonó (Mapenzi Chibale Nonó and PhD Candidate, Department of Letters Stephen Burks Mulowayi Iyaye Nonó) and Philosophy, Università degli Studi Founder and Principal, Stephen Burks Artists, Carolina, Puerto Rico di Firenze Man Made Foodtopia: después de todo territorio Exhibiting the Empire: Colonial Collections in Piedmont Mikyoung Kim Jules Guerin/Harold M. English Founding Principal, Mikyoung Kim Rome Prize Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Design, Boston William Villalongo Architecture, Urban Design, and Associate Professor, School of Art, Landscape Architecture Leslie Lokko Cooper Union Valerio Morabito Professor, Founder, and Director, In Search of Black Atlantis Architect and Professor, Università African Futures Institute Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria and TERRA FOUNDATION University of Pennsylvania Anuradha Mathur FELLOWSHIP Imagining American Cities Professor, Landscape Architecture Department, Stuart Weitzman School of Julia A. Sienkewicz Italian Fellow in Modern Italian Studies Design, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor, Fine Arts Rosa Sessa Department, Roanoke College Research Fellow in History of Mabel O. Wilson Forms of White Hegemony: Transnational Architecture, Department of Architecture, Nancy and George Rupp Professor Sculptors, Racialized Identity, and the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II of Architecture, Graduate School of Torch of Civilization, 1836–1865 Architecture as Cultural Bridge: Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Reception and Dissemination of the Italian Columbia University Architecture in the Italian– Additional leadership grant support for the American Discourse of the Postwar Era Historic Preservation and Conservation Rome Prize program is provided by: The Brown Foundation Rahul Mehrotra, 2017 Resident (Jury Chair) The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation 2021–2022 ROME PRIZE JURORS John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Graduate School of Endowment support provided by: Ancient Studies Design, Harvard University; and Miss Edith Bloom Fund Founding Principal, RMA Architects, Frank E. and Jaquelin G. Brown Fund Mary Ann Eaverly (Jury Chair) Mumbai and Boston Clarke & Rapuano Fund Professor of Classics and Department Phyllis W. G. Gordan Chair, Department of Classics, University Jorge L. Hernandez Graham Foundation of Florida Professor, Department of Architecture, Andrew W. Imbrie Memorial Fund University of Miami; and Founding in Music Sarah Levin-Richardson, 2015 Fellow Principal, JLH Architect, Coral Henry E. and Marian T. Mitchell Associate Professor, Department of Gables, Florida Fellowship Fund Classics, University of Washington Irene Rosenzweig Fund Bryony Roberts, 2016 Fellow C. V. Starr Scholarship Fund Jackie Murray, 2012 Fellow Founding Director, Bryony Roberts Studio; Charles K. Williams II Fund Associate Professor of Classics, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Department of Modern and Classical School of Architecture, Planning, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Preservation, Columbia University University of Kentucky

8 AAR Magazine Anna Serotta, 2015 Fellow Mark Chu Visual Arts Associate Conservator, Metropolitan Professor, Department of Italian, University Museum of Art College Cork Adam D. Weinberg, 2020 Resident (Jury Chair) Literature Vivien M. Greene, 2004 Fellow Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Senior Curator, 19th- and Early Museum of American Art Francine Prose, 2006 Resident (Jury Chair) 20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Distinguished Writer in Residence, Museum Teresita Fernández, 1999 Affiliated Fellow, Bard College 2018 Resident Joseph Luzzi Artist, Brooklyn T. Geronimo Johnson, 2018 Fellow Professor of Comparative Literature Writer, Berkeley, California and Faculty Member in Italian Studies, Ann Hamilton, 2017 Resident Bard College Artist and Distinguished University Sandra Lim Professor, Ohio State University Associate Professor, Department Musical Composition of English, University of Byron Kim Massachusetts, Lowell Suzanne Farrin, 2018 Fellow (Jury Chair) Artist, Brooklyn Frayda B. Lindemann Professor of Music, Sigrid Nunez, 2001 Fellow Hunter College and the Graduate Center, Glenn Ligon, 2020 Resident Writer in Residence, Boston University City University of New York Artist, Brooklyn

Brenda Shaughnessy Andy Akiho, 2015 Fellow Helen O’Leary, 2019 Fellow Professor, Department of English, Composer, New York and Artist and Professor of Art, School of Rutgers University, Newark Portland, Oregon Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State University

Medieval Studies Jonathan Berger, 2017 Fellow Walid Raad Denning Family Provostial Professor Artist and Professor, Cooper Union William Jordan, 2018 Resident (Jury Chair) in Music, Department of Music, Dayton-Stockton Professor of Stanford University Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellowship History, Department of History, in Rome Princeton University Tania J. León, 1998 Resident Distinguished Professor Emerita, City Winners of this award are selected Hussein Fancy, 2017 Fellow University of New York; and Composer, through a joint effort of the Terra Associate Professor, Department Conductor, Founder, and Artistic Director, Foundation Fellowship jury (listed below) of History, University of Michigan Composers Now and the Rome Prize Jury for Modern Italian Studies. Areli Marina, 2001 Fellow Lei Liang, 2012 Fellow Associate Professor, Kress Foundation Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Mark D. Mitchell (Jury Chair) Department of Art History, University Music, Department of Music, University of Holcombe T. Green Curator of American of Kansas California, San Diego Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery Marina Rustow, 2007 Fellow Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Silvia Bottinelli Civilization in the Near East, Lisa Pon (Jury Chair) Senior Lecturer, Visual and Material Department of Near Eastern Studies, Professor, Dornsife Department of Art Studies Department, School of the Princeton University History, University of Southern California Museum of Fine Arts–Tufts University

Nicholas Watson Renée Baernstein, 1991 Fellow Erica E. Hirshler Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of Professor of History and Senior Associate Croll Senior Curator of American English Literature, Department of English, Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Harvard University Miami University Crawford Alexander Mann III Modern Italian Studies Virginia Cox Curator of Prints and Drawings, Professor of Italian, Department of Italian Smithsonian American Art Museum Anna Harwell Celenza (Jury Chair) Studies, New York University Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music, Department of Performing Arts, Anthony M. Cummings, 2012 Resident Georgetown University Professor of Music and Coordinator of Italian Studies, Lafayette College Mark I. Choate Associate Professor, Department of Anthony Grafton, 2004 Resident History, Brigham Young University Henry Putnam Professor, Department of History, Princeton University

Spring/Summer 2021 9 FROM THE ARCHIVES:

Astra Zarina receiving her master’s degree Rome only reachable by a foot- 1962 Fellow, Architecture from MIT, she worked in an archi- bridge, where she and her hus- tecture firm in Detroit and began band Anthony Costa Heywood teaching as a lecturer for the UW ultimately moved to after retiring Astra Zarina (1929–2008), pro- Architecture Department. in 2000. They restored numerous fessor emeritus of architecture In 1970 she initiated the buildings in the town and contin- at the University of Washington Architecture of Rome program, ued promoting it until she died and founder of her school’s teaching groups of students in in 2008. Italian Studies programs and her own apartment. The program the UW Rome Center, was the continued as the Rome Center Claudia Trezza is a writer based first woman to be awarded the for the College of Architecture in Rome. Academy’s architecture fellow- and Urban Planning, which she ship. Throughout her career directed until the mid-1990s in and life, she contributed to the LEFT the Palazzo Pio in Rome, above Astra Zarina at the Civita di Bagnoregio, restoration of many buildings the ruins of the Roman Theater of Italy, 1960s. in Italy and elsewhere, includ- Pompey. During the construction ing the small neighborhood of RIGHT of the school, a medieval tower Märkisches Viertel in Berlin. Astra Zarina (left) and Tony Costa that had been hidden for centu- Heywood (center) in the Sala Grande, Born in Riga, Latvia, Astra ries was discovered, and Astra Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy, 1960s. emigrated to the United States oversaw its restoration. with her family after WWII and In 1976 she began a similar studied architecture at the program in Civita di Bagnoregio, University of Washington under a small, isolated medieval hill Lionel Pries, Wendell Lovett, town about sixty miles from and Victor Steinbrueck. After Photographs courtesy the Civita Institute.

10 AAR Magazine ROMAN NUMERALS:

Inside the deliberation and selection process The 2021–2022 Rome Prize winners at a glance 874 3.6% applications acceptance rate 4,752 68% pages of text reviewed by humanities jurors women 2,514 44% images viewed by visual arts jurors people of color

4,440 portfolio pages reviewed by jurors in architecture, 24% born outside the United States design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation and conservation 453 recordings and scores reviewed by music jurors Photographs courtesy the Civita Institute.

Spring 2021 XI CONVERSATIONS/CONVERSAZIONI:

Between fall 2020 and spring 2021, AAR continued its signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in The Rome, which convenes leading artists, scholars, architects, and conser- vationists for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities. The season’s events, which are part of AAR’s year-long exploration City of the theme “The City,” took place on Zoom. You can view recordings of them at aarome.org/events/watch. The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation generously sponsored the 2020–21 season of Conversations/Conversazioni.

NOTES FROM AMERICA A. O. Scott & Garrett Bradley TOWARD FREEDOM: CHICAGO MURALISTS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION Catherine Opie & Mark Robbins November 23, 2020 October 5, 2020 Rebecca Zorach & Nicole Marroquin New York Times critic at large A. O. Scott March 9, 2021 Photographer Catherine Opie (2021 (2020 Resident) and filmmaker and artist Resident) discussed her work and the Garrett Bradley (2020 Fellow) discussed Art historian Rebecca Zorach and artist idea of place as a portrait, as well as her Garrett’s work addressing themes of race, Nicole Marroquin considered murals recent road trip across the US, with AAR class, familial relationships, social justice, as interventions in and contestations of President Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow). Southern culture, and the history of film urban space with examples drawn from in the US. the long history of public art and political movements in Chicago.

ROOTS OF THE CITY Jorge Otero-Pailos & Sheena Wagstaff March 11, 2021 Artist and preservationist Jorge Otero- Pailos and curator Sheena Wagstaff ON GHETTOES: MEDIEVAL, MODERN, discussed art as a vehicle for reframing AND METAPHORICAL preservation and explored the emotive THE PERGAMON PANORAMA David Nirenberg & Avinoam Shalem power of place, space, and objects. IN BERLIN: WHERE TRADITION AND February 2, 2021 INNOVATION CONVERGE Andreas Scholl & Lynne Lancaster Historian David Nirenberg and AAR November 2, 2020 Director Avinoam Shalem (2016 Resident) explored the emergence of these urban Andreas Scholl, director of spaces, why they proved useful as mar- Antikensammlung Berlin, and AAR ginal spaces and metaphor, and how the Humanities Professor Lynne Lancaster phenomenon works today. (2002 Fellow) discussed the Pergamon ARTHUR AND JANET C. ROSS Panorama in Berlin, which combines ROME PRIZE CEREMONY traditional methods and digital technology COLONIAL CITIES AND IMPERIAL CITIZENS David Adjaye & Avinoam Shalem to re-create the ancient city of Pergamon. Mary T. Boatwright & Mia Fuller April 23, 2021 February 23, 2021 Architect David Adjaye (2016 Resident) Scholars Mary T. Boatwright and Mia and Avinoam Shalem explored the city Fuller discussed how state-driven as residue of injustice, postsecular shared settlements of Romans and Italians from religious spaces, and how his time in one region to another both inspired and Rome influenced concepts of dignity, discouraged senses of citizenship. imagination, and rebirth for a museum in Benin. Pergamon: Photo by Asisi F&E GmbH. Pergamon: Photo by Asisi

12 AAR Magazine IN RESIDENCE:

Each year, distinguished artists and scholars from around the world are invited to the Academy as Residents.

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, lecture, readings, and instructional walks in Rome. Meet our Residents for this winter and spring.

Catherine Opie in her Los Angeles studio with maps

Pergamon: Photo by Asisi F&E GmbH. Pergamon: Photo by Asisi of Vatican City.

Spring/Summer 2021 13 CATHERINE OPIE Robert Mapplethorpe Resident in Photography, May 3–June 11, 2021

“Photographer Catherine Opie’s expansive range of images shows an America that is sometimes hidden, but often in plain sight,” writes AAR President Mark Robbins in the catalogue for the group exhibition The Academic Body, held at AAR in 2019. “She strives to make apparent the things we no longer see in her subjects, whether that subject is surfers, football players, mini malls, the abstract blues of Lake Michigan, the S & M community, or lesbian couples.” Cathy recently photographed Florida swamps during a 2019 residency in New Smyrna Beach, and then took her camera across the country in an RV during the pandemic. She has visited Italy before but only now made the trip to Rome. As an artist interested in the “specificity of identity of place,” she planned to formulate how to photograph be curious to try to figure this the Vatican, to “really look at Catherine Opie, body of work,” Cathy remarked. Untitled #4, Richmond, Virginia the borders and the boundaries “Identity is something that you (monument/monumental) of the Vatican being its own city 2020 just don’t slap on. You live it, and within a city.” Her challenge was pigment print you look at it. You have to think to produce images that explore 66 x 44 inches about it.” the position of Catholicism in Cathy is professor of pho- relation to place and history. One tography and endowed chair idea was to capture the insides of the Department of Art at and outsides of corners that the University of California, make up the walls between the Los Angeles. Last October she Vatican and the rest of Rome. participated in a Conversations/ “My American identity is pretty Conversazioni with Mark Robbins, tied up in my work. It’s going to

titled “Notes from America.” London and Naples. Hong Kong, Seoul, London and Thomas Dane Gallery, York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Lehmann Maupin, New ©Catherine Opie, Courtesy of

14 AAR Magazine Bookmatched marble at Sant’Ignazio in Rome that seems suggestive of an abstract, monstrous face.

REBECCA ZORACH (2011), on the embedded signif- worked on The Designs of Nature, Louis Kahn Resident in the History icance of this geometric shape. a book project focusing on the of Art, March 8–April 2, 2021 Her proclivity for collaboration early modern European idea is represented by numerous that nature can create art like Rebecca Zorach is the Mary edited volumes including The humans do. Sixteenth-century Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Wall of Respect: Public Art and Italian natural philosophy, in Art History at Northwestern Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago particular the work of Ulisse University, where she teaches (2017) with Abdul Alkalimat and Aldrovandi, pointed her toward and writes on early modern Romi Crawford, and The Idol in the idea of photographing fossils European art from the fifteenth the Age of Art with Michael Cole that appear in the pavements to seventeenth centuries, as well (2009). Rebecca has also worked and other stone features in as on contemporary activist art on numerous exhibition cata- Italian churches. “Along similar and the art of the 1960s and 1970s. logues, including Paper Museums: lines,” she said, “I’ve been on the Prior to Northwestern she was The Reproductive Print in Europe lookout for book-matched (or at the University of Chicago for 1500–1800 (2005) with Elizabeth “butterflied”) marble revetments fourteen years. Rodini, currently AAR’s Andrew in churches that not only create Rebecca’s interdisciplinary Heiskell Arts Director. abstract shapes but also loosely research interests are reflected Rebecca participated evoke various representational in books such as Art for People’s in a March Conversations/ forms and might suggest nature Sake: Artists and Community in Conversazioni with Nicole ‘helped’ by art to create images.” Black Chicago, 1965–1975 (2019); Marroquin called “Toward Gold: Nature and Culture (2016), Freedom: Chicago Muralists written with Michael W. Phillips in the Struggle for Liberation” Jr.; and The Passionate Triangle during her Residency. She also ©Catherine Opie, Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, London and Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Naples. Hong Kong, Seoul, London and Thomas Dane Gallery, York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Lehmann Maupin, New ©Catherine Opie, Courtesy of

Spring/Summer 2021 15 RAMONA S. DIAZ lot of my documentary work.” It’s McGurn Family Trust Resident in useful as she tries her hand at fic- Film, June 14–August 6, 2021 tion, working on a project using nonprofessional child actors. “I know Rome, or Italy really, “The last time I was in Rome through films,” said Ramona S. was the early ’90s,” she said. “I Diaz, an award-winning direc- am looking forward to walking tor, screenwriter, and producer around the city and discovering whose feature-length documen- for myself the wonders of a sto- taries have been screened at fes- ried city like Rome. ‘Getting lost’ tivals internationally, including and finding my way back is how Sundance, Berlin International I like to discover things and Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film be inspired and think about Festival, and Hot Docs. Her sub- my work.” ject matter is diverse—covering A graduate of Emerson politics, popular culture, public College and Stanford University, schoolteachers, and human Ramona won a United States birth—yet it centers on Filipino Artists fellowship in 2019 and American experiences. a John Simon Guggenheim Among Ramona’s criti- Memorial Fellowship in 2016, cally praised works are Imelda the same year in which she was (2004), focused on the extrav- inducted into the Academy of agant former first lady of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Philippines Imelda Marcos; Don’t Stop Believin’: Every Man’s Journey (2012), a chronicle of how the American rock band Journey found a replacement lead singer, a Filipino named Arnel Pineda, on YouTube; and Motherland (2017), which the Baltimore Sun described as “an astonishing and often heartbreaking exploration of a Manila maternity ward.” Her most recent work, A Thousand Cuts (2020), explores the conflict between Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency and the Filipino press, notably the journalist Maria Ressa. Ramona studied Italian neore- alist cinema while in film school, which she says “really informed a

16 AAR Magazine DAVID NIRENBERG Lester K. Little Resident in Medieval Studies, January 25–March 5, 2021

Interactions among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultures have long fascinated David Nirenberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he is also dean of the Divinity School. David’s 1996 prize-winning book Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages, republished in 2015 with a new preface, examined the role of violence within Spain and France in shaping the possibilities for the coexistence of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Spain and France. He explored similar topics in Anti-Judaism (2013), Neighboring Faiths (2014), and Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies (2015). Taking a different perspective is the forthcoming Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity in agriculture and for humans, where they discussed how the to the Present. Cowritten with affected the ways in which early term ghetto—which described Ricardo L. Nirenberg, this book Christians—including many the late-medieval phenomenon accounts how numerical rela- who came to be thought of as of segregating Jews into distinct tions became the cornerstone heretical, such as the Gnostics— city neighborhoods—developed of human claims for knowledge, imagined the reproduction over time. truth, and certainty. of godliness.” At the Academy David worked In February, David partici- on a history of race and religion pated in “On Ghettoes: Medieval, in Judaism, Christianity, and Modern, and Metaphorical,” a Islam, in a chapter exploring how Conversations/Conversazioni with “Roman practices of reproduction, AAR Director Avinoam Shalem

Spring/Summer 2021 17 ANURADHA MATHUR AND DILIP DA CUNHA Mercedes T. Bass Landscape Architects in Residence, April 27–May 26, 2021

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are the founders and principles of design firm Mathur/ da Cunha, based in Philadelphia and Bangalore, India. An architect and landscape architect, Anu is a professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. Dilip is an architect, planner, and adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation who received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2020. Anu and Dilip’s work has focused on how water is visual- ized and engaged in ways that lead to conditions of its excess and scarcity, but also to opportunities that its ubiquity offers for new visualizations of place and resilience through design. They are authors of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha visited the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, May 16, 2021. (2001), Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006), and Soak: Mumbai in from water—as a fundamental act like the aqueducts, drains, foun- an Estuary (2009), as well as in designs of human habitation. tains, et cetera, and nonlinear coeditors of Design in the Terrain In Rome Anu and Dilip worked on systems like cisterns and wells of Water (2014). Exhibitions and its sequel, an exhibition and book that have mostly disappeared.” books form an intrinsic part of called The Ocean of Rain that Their goal was to determine if their practice. embraces ubiquitous wetness Rome is a city on the banks of the In 2019 Dilip published The as an alternative to river land- Tiber River, or a place immersed Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s scapes. They also documented in the Tiber. Eye and Ganga’s Descent (2019), “water infrastructure” in both which draws attention to rivers— photography and drawing, cap- namely, the separation of land turing “the linear flow systems

18 AAR Magazine MARY T. BOATWRIGHT University of Michigan, where spot nearby where her remains Esther Van Deman Scholar in she was earning her doctorate. were cheaply and hurriedly Residence, March 8–April 16, 2021 She returned to AAR in 1978–79 interred; and locales in Rome to work as an assistant for a and elsewhere that are home to Mary “Tolly” Boatwright’s conference that John D’Arms ran inscriptions and portraits of her. year as an undergraduate at on the seaborne commerce of Pandemic restrictions, however, the Intercollegiate Center for ancient Rome. Since then Tolly precluded visits to sites outside Classical Studies in Rome during has made periodic appearances Lazio. Through AAR Tolly was the early 1970s was instrumental at the Academy—most recently able to climb the Column of in her decision to attend gradu- in summer 2015 when she began Marcus Aurelius; she also visited ate school and become a profes- research for her new book, other publicly accessible sites in sional classicist. The landmark Imperial Women of Rome: Power, the city. books that followed include Gender, Context (2021). Exchanges with Fellows Hadrian and the City of Rome During her 2021 Residency, opened new approaches to (1987), Hadrian and the Cities of Tolly made progress on her biog- Agrippina, and to Roman topog- the Roman Empire (2000), and raphy of Agrippina the Younger. raphy and urbanism as well. Peoples of the Roman World (2012). “This is a very new endeavor for Tolly also discussed “Colonial After a distinguished career me, since I have tended to work Cities and Imperial Citizens” that includes over forty years of on topography, Hadrian, and with Mia Fuller in a February teaching classical studies and social history.” She had plans to Conversations/Conversazioni. history, Tolly is now Professor visit several sites: Agrippina’s Emerita at Duke University. villa on the Bay of Naples, where In 1977–78, Tolly was the Roman empress was killed Affiliated Fellow with the by order of her son Nero; the

Spring/Summer 2021 19 20 Raddato Carole by Photographs of Gift Major Receives AAR World Ancient the Seeing AAR Magazine

All photographs by Carole Raddato. The collection includes 30,000 images of antiquity across the Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Middle East.

The photographer Carole Raddato has gifted the core of her vast collection—some thirty thousand digital images—to the AAR Library to ensure its long- term preservation and continued access to scholars. The gift, which represents the most important collection of images of antiquity to come to the Academy since Ernest Nash’s Fototeca Unione was formed in 1956, is the first to consist of photos taken wholly in the twenty-first century. Though self-trained as a photographer and ancient history enthusiast, Raddato has established herself over the past ten years as a premier and energetic photographer of Roman antiquity in the Mediterrean Basin, Europe, and the Middle East. Born in France, Raddato currently resides in Frankfurt, Germany, and is employed in the UK music industry. She started her popular blog, Following Hadrian, in 2012 as a way to tell the stories behind her images, and has built up a very sizable and active social-media following. So far, Raddato has photographed well over nine hundred sites and museum exhibitions focusing on the classical period. These include significant but less-visited archaeological areas outside continental Europe, including Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey (including southern and eastern Anatolia), Israel, Jordan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and most recently Egypt and Iran. One of her most valuable contributions is photographing ephemeral exhibitions of classical subjects in lesser-known museums. The quality of Raddato’s images of both sites and artifacts is often the best available. Strikingly, she has made all her photos free for use under the Creative Commons/Attribution-ShareAlike license. Inevitably, her photographs have found their way into dozens of recently published academic books. For samples of the collection, visit the Digital Humanities Center at dhc.aarome.org/raddato.

LEFT Philadelphia (Amman), Jordan.

Spring/Summer 2021 21 TOP Anjar, Lebanon.

BOTTOM Philadelphia (Amman), Jordan.

22 AAR Magazine TOP LEFT Naqsh-e Rostam, Iran.

TOP RIGHT Machnaqa, Lebanon.

BOTTOM Aizanoi, Turkey.

Spring/Summer 2021 23 Giving for the Ages Richard E. Spear and Athena Tacha Underwrite a New Rome Prize Athena Tacha and Richard E. Spear at Iguazu Falls in South America.

The art historian Richard E. Spear on during the 1960s, ’70s, and Post called “a masterwork of and his wife, the artist Athena ’80s, and he took advantage of Tacitus-like force, clarity Tacha, are committed to the mis- the Eternal City’s exceptional and precision.” sion of the American Academy research opportunities—includ- Born in Greece, Athena Tacha in Rome. They have now become ing the collections of the Arthur is a multimedia artist whose members of the McKim & Morgan and Janet C. Ross Library. AAR experience of living in Rome and Society, the group that supports invited Richard to be a Resident exploring the city’s steps and the Academy through planned in 1988. public spaces had a profound giving. Their generous bequest Richard has written exten- influence on her work. She will underwrite a Rome Prize sively on Baroque art. His was a pioneer in environmental Fellowship, which will alternate major publications include and site-specific sculpture between art history and studio Caravaggio and His Followers as well as artist’s books. Athena art each year, in perpetuity. (1975), a two-volume catalogue studied at the Athens School A specialist in Italian Baroque raisonné on Domenichino (1982), of Fine Arts for an MFA, earned painting, Richard earned a BA The “Divine” Guido: Religion, Sex, an MA in art history at Oberlin from the University of Chicago Money, and Art in the World College, and completed a and a PhD from Princeton of Guido Reni (1997), and Painting PhD in aesthetics at the Sorbonne University in 1965, the year after for Profit: The Economic Lives in Paris. She returned to Oberlin he began teaching at Oberlin of Seventeenth-Century Italian in 1963 to become a curator College, where he later served as Painters (2010), coauthored with at the Allen and also to concen- director of the Allen Memorial Philip Sohm. His most recent trate on her own art practice. Art Museum (1972–83). After he book is Caravaggio’s “Cardsharps” Athena became a professor and Athena married in 1965, the on Trial: Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s of sculpture at Oberlin and couple lived in Rome off and (2020), which the Washington began to show nationally, Connections : photograph by Jim Fennel.

24 AAR Magazine BELOW winning numerous public- Athena is an adjunct professor at BOTTOM Richard Spear’s Athena Tacha, art commissions across the the same school. latest book, Connections, United States. Richard and Athena’s time in Caravaggio’s 1981–92, brown Athena’s work was included Rome has profoundly impacted “Cardsharps” stone, granite on Trial (2020). in the 39th Venice Biennale in their careers, and their contin- rocks, and plant- ings, Franklin 1980, the Onassis Cultural Center ued dedication to the Academy Town, 18th and in Athens in 2011, and in numer- ensures that future generations Hamilton Streets, ous solo shows at Zabriskie can live and work in this resi- Philadelphia. Gallery in New York and Marsha dential community, illuminated Mateyka Gallery in Washington, by the presence of Rome. “We DC. The High Museum of Art are happy to support AAR’s presented a survey of her work Fellowship program,” they said, in 1989; another retrospective, “because both of us love Rome Athena Tacha: From Public to and what it offers art historians Private, traveled across Greece and artists. It was such a privilege in 2010. Last year she published to be able to live at the Academy Fifty Years Inside an Artist’s Mind: and explore the city’s extraordi- The Journal of Athena Tacha. nary cultural heritage.” Today Richard and Athena For information about live in Washington, DC. Richard making a planned gift to AAR, has been a distinguished visiting please visit aarome.org/support/ and affiliate research professor planned-giving. at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1998, and Connections : photograph by Jim Fennel.

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The following pages document a sampling of the scholarly and creative work being generated by our Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows. The ongoing dialogues and collaboration taking place around the Academy every day speak to a vibrant community that strongly impacts how we see ourselves in the past, present, and future. THE All photographs by Giorgio Benni. photographs by Giorgio All FLOW26 AAR Magazine All photographs by Giorgio Benni. and recontextualized. can bebothcelebrated,disassembled, rary Romans, sheexplored how“type” documenting thediversityofcontempo - immigrant populations).Byobserving and pation), andcultural trends (tradition/ (fashion/style), necessity (uniform/occu- personalities seenthroughsartorialchoice approached Romanstreetsasacatalogof based costume designer Penn, and Albrecht Tübke, Brooklyn- photographers AugustSander, Irving of theeveryday. Taking acluefrom The ClothesofRomeengages the theater Terese Wadden

Spring/Summer 2021 27 The Taxon Cycle is a quasi-utopian novel from Alexandra Kleeman of the New School, written in five parts, about the rise and fall of money. Each section is set on a different island and in a different time period: an Oceanic monarchy ruptured by the arrival of European explorers, a hermetically sealed luxury bunker in a waterlogged near-future metropolis, a Nordic community that has inadvertently reverted to sub- sistence farming and barter, and so on. The novel considers the island as a place where nature sets “evolutionary experiments” into motion and asks if other relationships between life and necessity could exist in the absence of capitalism.

The Progetto Ophelia, a psychiatric hospital and residential complex in Potenza designed in 1905 by Giuseppe Quaroni and Marcello Piacentini, was an unprecedented example of empathic design for people with physical and cognitive differences. In Rome David Serlin of the University of California, San Diego worked on Sensory Design and Architectural Empathy in the “Progetto Ophelia,” which examines the structure in relation to architectural sites of Italian disability history, as well as a forerunner of contemporary projects that engage inno- vate multisensory and empathic design.

28 AAR Magazine Jennifer Packer’s project focuses on the social, political, and psychological implications of landscape and architecture on conceptions of individual, collective, and national identity, in relationship to African diasporic communities. Landscape is used here to identify physical and historical impositions on our sense of belonging. An assistant professor at Rhode Island School of Design, Packer discusses her work—and its primary influences over the past decade—through remembrance, sentimentality, longing, shame, and grief.

Spring/Summer 2021 29 In his Stanford University dissertation, Replication and Difference in Images of “Modest Venus,” 200 BCE–350 CE, Dillon Gisch studies how surviving “replicas” of Praxiteles’s famous Knidian Aphrodite were engaged in contextually dependent dialectics of replication and differentiation in the Roman world. He investigates how premodern Greek and Latin literary sources, Volterran stone ash urns, local bronze coin- ages from the Roman province of Asia, and Syrian bronze statuettes each appropri- ated well-known “modest Venus” types and adapted them to engender different viewer responses.

30 AAR Magazine Humanist History and Architecture in Sistine Rome is a book project by Carla Keyvanian of Auburn University that investigates the relationship of fifteenth-century humanist historical theory to architectural design. Modern scholars view the monumental hospital of S. Spirito in Sassia, built near the Vatican in the 1470s, as the product of an uneducated architect. Carla shows that the hospital, charac- terized by an architectural proportional system enabling the harmonious incorpo- ration of medieval and ancient elements, was produced by vanguard artists and intellectuals from the Veneto. That framework embodied a new philological understanding of history and exemplified a northern Italian search for new architectural language.

Rebecca Messbarger’s book project, Ghostly Light: How Criminal Corpses Animated the Italian Enlightenment, explores the Italian Enlightenment movement, or Illuminismo, within the framework of the gallows, which shaped major political, religious, aesthetic, and med- ico-scientific reforms across the Italian peninsula. Focusing on four cultural capitals—Bologna (a Papal state), Milan (ruled by Austrian Habsburgs), Florence (Grand Duke Peter Leopold), and Naples (Kingdom of the Spanish Bourbons)—this Washington University in St. Louis professor demonstrates how the criminal body was, for each, a recurrent touchstone for institutional transformation.

Spring/Summer 2021 31 Rebecca Levitan’s The Pasquino Group: Sculpture, Conversation, and Resistance from Ancient Rome to Renaissance Italy, her dissertation for the University of California, Berkeley, uses an ancient sculptural type to examine how the changing inhabitants of Rome mobilized a single monument over two millennia. The composition of the Pasquino Group—which depicts the recovery of a fallen warrior— derives from Homeric Epic, but the statue was named after a Renaissance inhabitant of Rome, cherished by Emperors, and resented by powerful popes. One frag- mentary copy of the statue still “speaks” in Rome today, giving voice to the discon- tented in the Parione district.

Exploiting Riverine Resources in the Roman Empire, Christy Q. Schirmer’s dissertation for the University of Texas at Austin, examines river fishing in the Roman provinces to more fully recog- nize processes of social and economic change that followed imperial expansion. Focusing on select river settlements in the western provinces (the Iberian peninsula, Roman Britain) alongside the Tiber and Nile, Christy combines literary and documentary sources with archaeological evidence to reveal how communities adapted to changing circumstances that came with Roman rule.

32 AAR Magazine For Preserving Perishables: Strategies for Conserving the Cultural History of Cuisine in Contemporary Rome, Paulette Marie Singley of Woodbury University developed conservation parameters and techniques for selected moments in Rome’s contemporary food network as models for similar cultural and architectural conservation in other parts of the world. While we may re-create a recipe, such as hot lamb stew from Apicius’s De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking)—the diurnal produce market at Campo de’ Fiori is transforming into a cluster of semipermanent souvenir stands, alimentari are giving way to gelaterie, and macellerie are transforming into to take-away pizzeria.

Spring/Summer 2021 33 Spatial data is not merely the representa- associated with a particular wine are tion of a landscape, argues Robert Gerard mutually constitutive. This creates a Pietrusko from the Harvard Graduate tension between the realities of a physical School of Design; it is deeply entangled landscape and its standardization in a with a landscape’s operation and its classification scheme. Robert’s research future. With accelerated global warming, on Adapting the Viticultural Landscape winemaking regions are facing new envi- explores these dependencies and con- ronmental conditions that make current flicts by analyzing material practices in operations untenable, yet alterations to the landscape and standardization prac- winemaking practices quickly conflict with tices in the institution. the strict guidelines of Italy’s wine appella- tion system. Through these appellations, a regional landscape, its agricultural practices, and the cultural expectations

34 AAR Magazine From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Women and Italian Textile Production, 1870–1945, Anna Dumont’s dissertation at Northwestern University, traces the effects of shifts in textile production on women during late-nineteenth-century industrialization, when craft revivals centered on training them for economic self-sufficiency through lacemaking and embroidery, to the interwar period, when new, consolidated design firms and the integration of textiles into avant-garde art obscured the role of women makers. Anna shows how shifts in visual and textual presentations—photographs, Futurist decorative objects, craft manuals, government documents, exhibition catalogs, Fascist periodicals, artists’ letters—constructed ideas of authorship that privileged male designers over female makers, while also exploring conse- quences for women when political identity was increasingly bound up with work.

While in Rome, New York–based conservator Jean Dommermuth researched Sixteenth-Century Florentine Canvas Painting, recontextualizing works not originally conceived of as independent paintings but rather as parts of elaborate, multimedia productions intended for entries, weddings, and funerals of the ruling elite. Created as ephemera, few examples have survived. Direct visual examination provided her with vital evidence about seaming, scalloping, and craquelure indicative of the original construction and later alterations, as well as information for a database.

Spring/Summer 2021 35 Thirteenth-century Rome was adorned with frescoes, mosaics, and sculptures of dreaming figures—images depicting both sleeping figures and their dreams. Danny Smith’s dissertation for Stanford University, Dreaming in Public in Late Medieval Rome, argues that these depictions were a powerful visual tool that assimilated evolving scientific conceptions of dreaming into the visual arts. He is framing these depictions of dreams as the nexus of intellectual, religious, and political histories in the city, drawing from scientific texts, sermons, and popular guidebooks for personal dream interpretation.

Souvenirs from the Roman Empire— commemorating places, people, and events that straddled spheres of religion, spectacle, leisure, and politics—offer a unique resource for exploring experiences of people beyond elite, metropolitan male authors and moneyers. Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome, by Case Western Reserve University’s Maggie L. Popkin, demonstrates how affordable, portable, and widely accessible objects were critical to shaping how Romans perceived their world. At the same time, souvenirs strengthened local and regional identities and excluded certain groups from the social participation they afforded so many others.

36 AAR Magazine Transhumance is a type of livestock For A Line in the Land: Tracing the grazing that has existed as a landscape Transhumance, Kevin Benham of Louisiana strategy for millennia. In Italy, it involves State University reevaluated transhu- seasonal movement of herds (mainly mance through a contemporary ecological sheep) in southeastern Italy. Routes of and urban lens by deploying a series of this historical practice, known as the landscape interventions integrating rural Royal Shepherd’s Track, are identified as elements (sheep or other herbivores) into UNESCO World Heritage sites. While this the urban environment. designation calls attention to an ancient agrarian landscape strategy worthy of recognition and preservation, it also carries implications for contemporary urban applications. These historical routes act as ecological corridors for the dispersal of plants and animals and lead to greater biodiversity.

Spring/Summer 2021 37 Giuliana Mosca’s project The Architectural Patronage of the Santacroce Family in Rome and Lazio (XV–XVI Centuries) focuses on the role of architecture in the social and cultural rise of the Santacroce family, a nouveau riche Roman family that gained increasing prestige and power during the fifteenth century. Her research combines investigations into archives in Rome with an in-depth analysis of the structures that the Santacroce family built in Rome and in their fief of Veiano (Lazio). Giuliana is an adjunct professor in the Department of Architecture at Università di Roma Tre.

38 AAR Magazine While in Rome, Lindsay Sheedy worked on Un’orrida bellezza: Religious Polychrome Sculpture in the Kingdom of Naples, 1503– 1714, her dissertation for Washington University in St. Louis. The project examines how polychrome sculpture—which evokes lifelikeness through combinations of color and sculpted form—participated in the changing religious and cultural landscape of Southern Italy during Spanish imperial rule. Lindsay’s research touches on intersections of faith and art, elite and popular culture, international and regional networks, and local traditions and foreign adaptations.

In the Shadows of Italian Empire: Libya, Egypt, and the Politics of Cross-Border Migration and Exile, 1911–1970, a project from Sarah Lawrence College’s Matthew H. Ellis, illuminates a neglected dimension of Italian colonialism in Libya—namely, experiences of Libyan migration to and exile in Egypt, and the critical role Italian rule played in fostering a new era of mobility and cross-border politics between Egypt and Libya. Adopting a transnational lens, Matthew casts new light on Libyan identity formation, Italian–Egyptian rela- tions, and thorny questions of nationality and legal status that attended the end of Italian rule in Africa.

Spring/Summer 2021 39 On the Road, Off the Beaten Path Streetscapes Brings Site-Specific Works to the Janiculum Hill

For Streetscapes, four AAR Fellows, responding to the restrictions and limits of the COVID-19 era, have produced sculptures that are installed up and down the Janiculum hill, accessible to AAR residents and passers-by. Animating the pinegroves of the Villa Doria-Pamphilij Park and the portico of Bramante’s Tempietto, as well as the courtyards of AAR’s main building, these site-specific works, on view June 7–17 with an opening held during Trustees’ Week, invited viewers to re-engage with familiar spaces and explore new vistas. This balance of stasis and movement was perfectly suited to a spring of tentatively hopeful reopenings in Rome. Novissimo Landscape Goes Silver by Francesca Berni (2021 Italian Fellow) invites us to imagine what is already present. The space she has outlined, by wrapping reflective silver blankets around a set of towering pine trees in the Villa Doria-Pamphilij Park, is both real and an abstraction, a “room” actual- ized through the movements and rituals that we, the visitor, construct within it. “We are landscape,” Francesca states; landscape is a fiction, a theatrical conceit, a continual staging formed through practice and use. Sunlight reflecting off wide bands of silver in the groves of the park denies the solidity of the arboreal room they seem to articulate. “Nature doesn’t exist,” says Francesca; we are always in the process of inventing it. Three craggly insects greet us just beyond the gates that frame Bramante’s Tempietto. They are at once humorous and disturbing, like so many dreams. Insistently tactile and crafted of nearly indestructi-

ABOVE RIGHT ble industrial materials, the trio seems nevertheless Corinna Gosmaro, Katy Barkan, remote, physically distanced from us and concep- Chutzpah!, 2021 Obelisk Interior, tually unfixed. Corinna Gosmaro (2021 Italian Fellow) 2021 associates her creatures, titled Chutzpah!, with the archetypal symbols of the earliest art making, and All photographs by Giorgio Benni. photographs by Giorgio All

40 AAR Magazine All photographs by Giorgio Benni. Spring/Summer 2021 41 thus with the fundamental human drive to cre- evolving body of work. We spy RGB (skin) through ate. Symbols, she says, are innate to how we think; the imposing fence that separates the American they constitute awareness itself. At the same time, Academy from the street. Its elements recline and Corinna rejects the rigid interpretations that “sym- rise up from the lawn, in a chorus of activity. They bolism” proposes. Her guidebook to understanding are architectural, theatrical, and mysterious. This is a more fluid imaginary, a freeflowing passage from play between geometry and whimsy is typical of one idea to another that denies art historical time- Sara’s work, as she moves between the functional lines and one-way paths to meaning. and the fantastical. An “obelisk” of cable and netting lies on its “side” Streetscapes was curated by Elizabeth Rodini, in the interior courtyard of the American Academy’s Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, and organized by Lexi main building; alongside it is a “shadow” of colored Eberspacher, Programs Associate for the Arts, and pavers. These allusions speak to the tendential made possible by the Adele Chatfield-Taylor and nature of Obelisk Interior, which is a metaphorical John Guare Fund for the Arts. echo of the grand stone markers found throughout Rome. Katy Barkan (2021 Fellow) is working to destabi- lize these most awesome and permanent of monu- ments, the “littlest big things,” as she describes them. She does this here by slicing the concept of the obelisk into fragments. What is vertical is horizontal, what is rigid is malleable, and what is solid is hollow (visitors can peek through the center of her obelisk). Verticality, with all of its implications, is thrown on its side. Through these artistic gestures, Katy reminds us of the instabilities that obelisks mask, including the fragility of built environments and of societies that lay claim to them. “Rome is a big fold.” We can begin to locate undertakings by Sara Enrico (2021 Italian Fellow) in this recent statement. RGB (skin) continues Sara’s manipulation of textiles, printed and wrapped around a foam core, as well as her exploration of transformative, overlapping artistic processes: a digital scan materialized on fabric; a membrane that becomes a body; data that is next a picture and then a sculpture. The basis of her approach is firm, even as new contexts inspire. Rome, endlessly folded back upon itself, is a particularly resonant space for her

42 AAR Magazine Francesca Berni, Novissimo Landscape Goes Silver, 2021

Sara Enrico, RGB (skin), 2021

Spring/Summer 2021 43 Esra Akcan spoke about public protests, including those by Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, in “Healing Spaces of Enforced Disappearance.” This May 10 conference, cosponsored by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, gathered academ- ics and intellectuals to discuss Celebrating the city as a remembered and constructed entity—an architectural tangible artifact and a the City product of our thoughts. AAR’s Season of Events Draws to a Close

Like plants and other living creatures, urban centers are born, gradually grow, and even die. As citizens, we accept our cities as the spatial framework for The City: Traces of Urban Memories our movements, acts, and thoughts. Like the sea, the city Cities are in constant flux as engulfs and absorbs. But when they are erased, demolished, Mabel Wilson discussed the was the city visually regarded and newly designed, renovated, Charlottesville protests during “Witness and Watcher – Remembering Enslaved depicted as a comprehensive and preserved. Sites epitomize Laborers at the University of Virginia.” and intact entity? durations and changes AAR’s theme for 2020–21, “The and embody a sense of time. In its core are the stories and City,” kicked off last September histories of the citizens of cities with a lecture by Academy direc- as reflected, or rather imprinted, tor Avinoam Shalemexamining on the formation of the city’s specific, crucial moments of urban spaces and its delicate discovering the city’s image, receptive surfaces. skyline, profile, and borders. The first panel, on “Urban After a series of Conversations/ Imaginings and Memories,” Conversazioniexploring various featured presentations from concepts from ancient times to architectural theoretician and the present (see page 12), the Moroccan women riding electric scooters journalist Niklas Maak (FAZ year culminated in an academic locally made from recycled materials, Germany), art historian Tanja conference and a literary reading, from Niklas Maak’s presentation, “I Michalsky (Bibliotheca Hertziana buoni e i cattivi. Constructions of a which took place two days in May Contemporary Imagery of the City Vis-a- Rome), and art historian Dario on Zoom. vis the Countryside.” Gamboni (University of Geneva).

44 AAR Magazine Igiaba Scego explored intersections of Rome and Mogadishu, Somalia, a former Italian colony, in “Colonial Traces of the City.” Pincio (2012), who contributed “The Emotional Phenomenology of the Empty City. The other authors and stories were: Speakers on the second panel, Leonardo Colombati (“The City “Pain and Resilience,” were archi- and Its Monsters”);Marco Lodoli tectural historian Esra Akcan (“Traces of Poetry, Islands in (Cornell University), archi- the City”); Melania Mazzucco tect Mabel Wilson (Columbia (“Rome Between the Ruins and University), and architect Eyal Construction Sites”); Francesco Weizman (Goldsmiths, University Pacifico (“Contradictory Forces of London). in the Western City”); and Igiaba Scego (“Colonial Traces Reading the City | Leggere la città of the City”). The event, made possible On May 11, seven writers with by the Adele Chatfield-Taylor distinct experiences of Rome and John Guare Fund for the read new works written espe- Arts, was curated by Maria Ida cially for AAR’s year of “The City.” Gaeta, founder of the Casa Musing on Rome but not only, delle Letterature and the Festival they considered cities as transi- Internazionale di Massenzio tional environments, as places in Rome and an AAR advisor marked by past, present, and in literature. future, existing between material foundations and their creative reinvention. Personal itineraries deep into the city of Rome also extended across the horizon to New York, Tokyo, and Mogadishu. The participants included two Italian Fellows, Claudia Durastanti (2015), who read Novelist Melania Mazzucco pores over a map of seventeenth-century Rome, noting “Ghost Towns and Transitional that Trastevere was once at the edge of Environments,” and Tommaso the city, in a prelude to her reading.

Spring/Summer 2021 45 Sound and Music in the Aluminum Forest Sonic Installations Come to the Gardens of the Villa Aurelia

46 AAR Magazine The title of this event, Aluminum Forest, came from Katherine Balch and Ted Moore’s 2021 installation of windchimes, made from discarded cans, on the grounds of the Villa Aurelia, pictured here. All photographs by Giorgio Benni. photographs by Giorgio All

Spring/Summer 2021 47 Aluminum Forest: Sonic Installations and whispers, to richly harmonic bursts of color. Written Improvisations, which took place on the evening of for the New York–based ensemble Ekmeles, forget- May 20, was both a site- and period-specific event. ting engages the text of a new poem by Katie Ford, It was conceived for the gardens of the Villa Aurelia Estrangement, which restores the absent female voice not just because of their beauty but because of to a song cycle by Robert Schumann, the Dichterliebe. what the Covid era demands of everyone, including Katherine explores evanescence and the traces of composers, performers, and the audience. We must memory through delicate filaments of music that be outdoors; we must not converge or convene; one will fill the space of the Sala Aurelia before disap- cannot blow a horn unmasked and singing is one pearing into silence. of the most dangerous things we can do. If music is For William Dougherty (2021 Fellow), music is funda- a coming together, this moment demands that we mentally social. Of course, people come together to keep apart. Like musicians around the world, the make music and to listen to it. But William wonders participating composers have faced a long year of if we might think about music itself, its very mate- silence, rarely if ever hearing their music performed rial, as a social formation. His questioning has been live. This gathering, presented to a limited public pushed to new ends in this long year of isolation and and documented in video form, was a first sign of distancing. The voices compiled for In Dark Times, artistic resurgence. Will There Also Be Singing? were recorded one by one, An array of twirled aluminum windchimes, in a small hut, onto William’s laptop; each voice was strung along a tunnel of hedge, is the matrix for answered by another, already recorded, in a comput- Aluminum Forest, a collaboration between Katherine erized musical give-and-take. The only request made Balch (2021 Fellow) and Ted Moore. Their conjoined of the volunteer vocalists was to offer a song that has interests and expertise resulted in a set of delicately brought them joy, an optimistic counterpoint to the percussive instruments that respond to the breeze, “dark times” of the work’s title and to the poem by the movements of the audience picked up by small Bertolt Brecht that inspired it. sensors, and tiny computer-directed motors. Ted is These vocal foundations, scored over for string the coder, working together with Katherine to pro- quartet, reveal one of William’s other key interests, gram the windchimes in a series of actions: jiggling, namely a blurring of the boundaries between com- shimmying, rattling, and resting. poser, performer, and the public. In this case, he con- Katherine crafted the forty-five or so wind- siders himself a facilitator, disrupting familiar ways chimes out of discarded cans, at first as a pandemic of working. These explorations are not just about induced diversion but then more intentionally, as music making. If art creates society, its re-formation instruments that appealed to her interest in tiny stands at a critical inflection point, as we reimagine sounds and what she calls “gentle bands of noise.” communities and forms of (shared) expression. This gentleness and the pretty, pastel colors of her Steve Parker (2021 Fellow) is a sonic adventurer, an windchimes—their onomatopoeic quality, as she artist who works through trial and error, constantly puts it—belie the pain that provoked their invention. trying the new and adjusting it to the moment. The Covid-era music is not a happy ending for Katherine, three works he presents here are diverse in form but but a necessary, often heavy step in moving forward consistent in approach. Sanctus invites birds into and recovering her practice. These windchimes are “bird-sized ruins,” coaxing their song into a set of destined for a performance of her work with the Los handmade, hybrid instruments; Human Stylus is a Angeles Philharmonic, once the world will again participatory procession of wearable devices, audi- permit it. ble only to those who control them; and Death Rattle Katherine often composes for nonstandard is a sound installation that probes the deepest, most musical instruments and the “found sounds” they fragile music of the human body. produce. Quotidian objects manipulated in unusual Steve is harvesting sound—of a pipe against ways—such as thimbles tapped against strings— gravel, a failing breath, a bird scraping at a seed. arrest our ears and get us wondering. In forgetting, The results are unpredictable. As listeners, we must toy noise makers play along with the six recorded commit to close attention, bend our ears, and let go. voices that, in turn, produce an unexpected array In addition to confounding the musical roles of per- of sounds, from pops and cracks to gurgles and former and audience, Steve is recalibrating our most

48 AAR Magazine Musicians perform William Dougherty’s 2021 composition In Dark Times, Will There Also Be Singing?

Spring/Summer 2021 49 profound relationships. There is something wholly 2021 sound works by Steve Parker. ordinary about the sounds he documents, even—or especially—those separating life from death. If the THIS PAGE bird will not stop to sing, so be it. Steve invites us to Human Stylus sit and wait for the next one to come along. and Death Rattle (bottom right) The program, which included a live improvi- sation piece between Ted Moore (electronics) OPPOSITE PAGE and Fabrizio Spera (percussion), was curated by Sanctus Elizabeth Rodini, Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, and organized by Lexi Eberspacher, Programs Associate for the Arts. It was funded, in part, by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation. Support was also provided by the Amphion Foundation and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

50 AAR Magazine Spring/Summer 2021 51 Trustees), onOctober Join Co-Chairs and members of the 1914 25 RIGHT at AAR at Opportunities Membership CONVIVIUM: 52 2021 New York New Gala 2021 Academy’s annualNewYork Gala benefit. evening will honorluminariesinthe arts and humanities: and 25 Honorary Chairs Following ayearlonghiatus,welookfor Board of Trustees, ward to celebrating in personat Cipriani John Guare F. W. Rogers Mary E.Frank Broadway, featuring a ceilingmuralby BroadwayinlowerManhattan.The Calvin Tsao FellowEzraWinters. : ArchitecturaldetailfromCipriani , and (Vice Chair oftheBoard (Trustee Emerita), and ( Julie Mehretu 2010 Mary SchmidtCampbell Alessia Antinori Slobodan Randjelovic´ Resident),and 26 AAR Magazine , 2021 . , forthe (Trustee), John

, - memberships. as aPatron or Friendtoday at aarome.org/support/ they create the work that imaginesthe future. Join interdisciplinary work of AAR scholars andartists as and New York, as well as virtually. Duessupportthe toaccess exclusive events andprograms inItaly Academy, andFriendsof the Library groups provide ars by becomingamember. Patrons, Friendsof the Academy inRome’s community of artists andschol- Discover andexplore alongside the American UPCOMING

Mehretu: photograph © Josefina Santos; letterlocking: Unlocking History Research Group archive; Apfelbaum: artwork © Polly Apfelbaum/Durham Press; Biggers: artwork © Sanford Biggers. Alberti at the Academy: Letterlocking: A Global Technology The First Renaissance Treatise on of Communication Security Architecture Before the invention of the gummed Leon Battista Alberti was a scholar, writer, envelope in the 1830s, almost all letters and one of the most original and influen- were sent using letterlocking, the practice tial architects in fifteenth-century Italy. In of folding and securing a writing surface this talk, Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident, to become its own envelope. Based on Trustee Emeritus) of Princeton University twenty years of research into 250,000 discussed and displayed a selection from letters, Jana Dambrogio (2008 Fellow) the Academy’s rich collection of rare and Daniel Starza Smith, codirectors of books and historically important early edi- the Unlocking History Research Group, tions of Leon Battista Alberti’s pioneering presented their main findings and con- book on the art of building. Fresh Takes: ducted a hands-on letterlocking workshop for participants. New Perspectives on History BELOW: Computer-generated unfolding In presentations moderated by Andrew sequence of sealed letter DB-1538. W. Mellon Humanities Professor Lynne Lancaster (2002 Fellow), Allison Emmerson and Jim Carter (both 2019 Fellows) discussed their projects while at the Academy, including Allison’s work on Roman archeology and Jim’s scholarship on the industrialist Adriano Olivetti.

FROM TOP: Adriano Olivetti in his company Detail of Leon Battista Alberti, Libri De re town, Ivrea; The Porta Ercolano suburb aedificatoria dece[m]. to the north of Pompeii.

Private Tour of Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum of American Art The voices of artist Julie Mehretu (2020 Resident), Whitney director and AAR Trustee Adam Weinberg (2020 Resident), and curator Rujeko Hockley combined to explore a survey of Julie’s work.

One Moment/Infinite Ideas musical tribute from pianist Jason Moran Virtual Benefit (2017 Resident), and an excerpt from Symphonie Fantastique by Basil Twist AAR presented a virtual benefit evening (2019 Fellow). An accompanying online on October 27, 2020, honoring two benefit auction featured artworks by over visionaries in the arts and humanities: twenty AAR Fellows and Residents. classicist Mary Beard (2019 Resident) and artist Theaster Gates (2020 Resident). The LEFT: Polly Apfelbaum, Byzantine Rocker evening celebrated the breadth of the 24, 2016, woodblock monoprint; honorees Academy’s work with a series of virtual Theaster Gates (left) and Mary Beard. performances, including readings by RIGHT: Sanford Biggers, Psyche, 2011, Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Jhumpa lithograph and hand-stitched thread. Lahiri (2013 Resident) and Anthony

Mehretu: photograph © Josefina Santos; letterlocking: Unlocking History Research Group archive; Apfelbaum: artwork © Polly Apfelbaum/Durham Press; Biggers: artwork © Sanford Biggers. Polly Apfelbaum/Durham Press; Group archive; Apfelbaum: artwork © Mehretu: photograph © Josefina Santos; letterlocking: Unlocking History Research Doerr (2005 Fellow, 2019 Resident), a

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Spring/Summer 2021 55 Karen Harney Lauren Hackworth Petersen, FAAR’99 and Melissa Volpert Julie Herzig Stephen Petersen Carrie Mae Weems, FAAR’06 Marguerite Hoffman Professor Donald Petting, FAAR’78 The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Professor Richard J. Hoffman, FAAR’72 Kelly D. Powell, AIA, FAAR’02 Karol B. Wight, AFAAR’18 Howeler + Yoon Diana Prince Fred D. Wilson, RAAR’20 and Tracey Hummer and Frederic D. Alexander Purves Whitfield Lovell, RAAR’19 Schwartz, FAAR’85 in memoriam Professor Patrick Quinn, FAAR’80 Kelly Williams Barbara C. Imbrie Mark Rabinowitz, FAAR’11 John L. Wong, FAAR’81 and Jensen Investment Management Louise Rice, FAAR’86, FAAR’95, RAAR’08 Mildred Sum-Wong Dean A. Johnson, FAAR’66 Diana Robin, FAAR’88 Peggy Woodring, AIA Christine and William Jordan, RAAR’18 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Rosen Buzz Yudell and Tina Beebe Dina Kaplan Rachely Rotem, FAAR’17 Jack Zajac, FAAR’02 Thomas F. Kelly, FAAR’86, RAAR’02 David A. Rubin, FAAR’12 Anonymous (4) and Margaret Badenhausen Teofilo F. Ruiz, RAAR’20 Johannes M. P. Knoops, Professor Michele Renee Salzman, AFAAR’91, FAAR’00 FAAR’87, RAAR’08 and Steven G. Brint Sarah T. Kuehl, FAAR’05 Pat Sapinsley Albert Lamb III, FAAR’70 Margo Sawyer, FAAR’87 Randolph Langenbach, FAAR’03 and Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Frederick Hertz FAAR’84, RAAR’14 Raymond Learsy Jon Michael Schwarting, FAAR’70, Larry Lederman and Kitty Hawks AFAAR’13 and Frances Campani Nicholas P. Leone Kathryn L. Seidel Robin C. Lewis Dinah Seiver Dorothy Lichtenstein Annabelle Selldorf, FAIA, RAAR’18 Glenn Ligon, RAAR’20 Mel and Pamela Shaftel Julie and John Lippman Adi Shamir-Baron Lester K. Little, RAAR’96 and Alfred R. Shands Lella Gandini William V. Shaw, FAAR’68 in memoriam Bruce Lovett Cathy Simon, RAAR’16 Suzanne and Gilbert Mathews Kawal Singh Thompson M. Mayes, FAAR’14 Jill Slosburg-Ackerman Thom Mayne and Blythe Alison Mayne Frank Snowden, Jr., RAAR’03 Joseph McDonnell Mr. and Mrs. Michael I. Sovern James H. McGregor, FAAR’82 and in memoriam Sarah Spence, FAAR’82 Spears Abacus Advisors John J. Medveckis and Marina Katz Ronald P. Spogli Ronald Mellor Will Stark and Kevin Olsen Fund Richard and Ronay Menschel of the Minneapolis Foundation John and Mary Miller Pamela F. Starr, FAAR’84 Derek A. R. Moore, FAAR’84 and Wendy A. Stein Charlotte Nichols, FAAR’83 Fritz Steiner, FAAR’98, RAAR’14 Mr. Tyler Morgan and Mr. Ken Kuchin Angela Strange Nautilus Foundation, Inc. Barry S. Strauss, RAAR’13 Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, FAAR’98 David M. Stone, FAAR’98, RAAR’16 and and Guy J. P. Nordenson, RAAR’09 Linda A. Pellecchia, FAAR’92 Kyle Normandin Shamina Talyarkhan Mrs. Greenway O’Dea Richard Tarrant Patrick Oliphant, RAAR’13 and Nader Tehrani, RAAR’18 Susan Conway Oliphant Loran and Meera Thompson Thomas R. Oslund, FAAR’92 Gael Towey and Stephen Doyle Laurie Ossman Carll Tucker Carol and Michael Palladino, FAAR’01 Dell Upton, RAAR’19 William Pedersen, FAAR’66 Michael R. Van Valkenburgh, FAAR’88

56 AAR Magazine AAR Patron Members McKim & Morgan Society Members Ann Hartman George E. Hartman, FAAR’78, RAAR’96 Patrons are individuals who are passionate The McKim & Morgan Society comprises and Jan Cigliano about the arts and humanities and the individuals who have made a commitment Susan R. Hughson and interdisciplinary, international context of to the future of the American Academy George A. Hinds, FAAR’84, AIA the American Academy in Rome. To learn in Rome by including the Academy in their Professor Richard J. Hoffman, FAAR’72 more about the program, please visit estate plans and have provided gift Fredrika and Paul W. Jacobs II aarome.org/support/memberships/patrons documentation to the Academy. To learn Leila Laughlin and Daniel Javitch, or call the Development office at 212-751- more about planned giving, please visit FAAR’90, RAAR’96 7200, ext. 363 (list as of May 2021). aarome.org/support/planned-giving Robert J. Jergens, FAAR’63 (list as of April 2021). Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98, RAAR’20 Chairman’s Council Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84 Mary and Howard S. Frank Stanley Abercrombie, FAAR’83 and Buff Kavelman William B. Hart and Constance Eaton Paul Vieyra Richard G. Kenworthy, FAAR’70 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hyman Theodor C. Albert Marjorie E. Kreilick-McNab, FAAR’63 David C. Martin, FAIA and Mary Martin Paul Arpaia, FAAR’08 Lisa Kressbach Dr. Peggy McEvoy Andrew N. Baer and Elizabeth Anne Laidlaw, FAAR’61, RAAR’76 Allison and Roberto Mignone Freeman Baer Albert Lamb III, FAAR’70 Caroline Mortimer Beryl Barr-Sharrar William Levitan, FAAR’88 and Debra Nails Jeannie and Thomas Phifer, FAAR’96 Robert Beaser, FAAR’78, RAAR’11 Carol F. Lewine Jeanne and Alex Sloane Larry Thomas Bell, FAAR’83 and Elizabeth Locke and John Staelin Andrea Olmstead Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs, FAAR’64 President’s Council Mary Jo and Richard C. Bell, Annette and Craig McGhee Stanley Abercrombie, FAAR’83 FAAR’53, RAAR’75 Melissa Meyer, FAAR’81 The Ettinger Foundation Mirka Benes, FAAR’84, FAAR’97 Chas A. Miller III and Birch Coffey Stephen Harby, FAAR’00 Ludmila Schwarzenberg Bidwell Judith R. Millon Gary R. Hilderbrand, FAAR’95, RAAR’18 Thomas Bosworth, FAAR’81 Bitsie and Grover E. Mouton, FAAR’73 and Pamela Gorgone Charles Brickbauer, FAAR’57 Kathy Muehlemann, FAAR’88 and Wendy Evans Joseph, FAAR’84 Steven Brooke, FAAR’91 James Muehlemann, FAAR’82 Miyoung E. Lee Patricia Fortini Brown, FAAR’90, RAAR’01 Gwynn Murrill, FAAR’80 Diane Britz Lotti Caroline A. Bruzelius, FAAR’86, RAAR’89 Eric Lindgren and Susan and Peter Nitze Dr. Virginia Bush Suttman, FAAR’77 Ili Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09 Townes Lavidge Osborn and Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR’84, RAAR’20 Susan and Peter Nitze Robert Marquis and John Guare, RAAR’13 Laurie Nussdorfer, FAAR’81 and Beth K. Pfeiffer* Chuck Close, RAAR’96 Nicholas Adams, FAAR’88 Anne Jacques Phelps Daryl and Robert S. Davis, FAAR’91 James E. Packer, FAAR’64 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky David G. De Long, RAAR’98 Paul R. V. Pawlowski, FAAR’69 and Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation Judith Di Maio, FAAR’78, RAAR’09, Ingrid Anderson AFAAR’17, AIA Michael C. J. Putnam, FAAR’64, RAAR’70 * Deceased Suzanne Dirsmith and Kenneth Gaulin Harry B. Evans, FAAR’73, RAAR’91 Cynthia Pyle, FAAR’78 and Richard Kayne Andrea Henderson Fahnestock Peter G. Rolland, FAAR’78, FASLA Diane Favro, RAAR’15 and C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12 Fikret K. Yegül, RAAR’98 Shirley F. Royal Jenks James L. Franklin Jr., FAAR’75 Susan C. Salay Jane W. Crawford, FAAR’82, RAAR’96 and Karen Saler, FAAR’68 Bernard Frischer, FAAR’76, RAAR’97 Martica R. Sawin Warren Bryan Fuermann Judy Silver, FAAR’78 Katherine A. Geffcken, FAAR’55 Peter F. Smith, FAAR’69 Richard Gibbons Richard Spear, RAAR’88 and Athena Frank S. Gilligan Tacha Spear Dr. Rosanne M. Gulino Pamela F. Starr, FAAR’84 John Winthrop Haeger Dr. and Mrs. John C. Stubbs Mrs. Mark Hampton

Spring/Summer 2021 57 James Timberlake, FAAR’83, FAIA and Friends of the Academy Friends of the Library Ms. Marguerite Rodgers James and Meriget Turner Trust Friends of the Academy support AAR’s Friends of the Library bring together Ann Weber dynamic activities and take part in individuals who believe that the Arthur Phoebe D. Weil, RAAR’07 exclusive cultural and social events with and Janet C. Ross Library is one of the Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, RAAR’82 the Academy community of artists and Academy’s greatest assets (list as of Larry J. Wente scholars (list as of April 2021). April 2021). Charles Witke, FAAR’62, RAAR’98 and Aileen Gatten Co-Chair Donors Joanna Woods-Marsden, FAAR’87 Alysa Weinstein Gravina Elizabeth Bartman, FAAR’83, RAAR’09 T. C. Price Zimmerman Elizabeth and Ralph Brown Anonymous (5) Sponsors Roberto Cavallone Gaia Branca John R. Clarke, RAAR’95 Linda and Michael Mewshaw, Elizabeth and Paul De Rosa Kirby Family Foundation Diane Favro, RAAR’15 and Thomas D. Whalen Fikret K. Yegül, RAAR’98 Sheila Ffolliott Donors Mary Frank Judith and David Barrett Katherine Geffcken, FAAR’55 Luigi Capello, LVenture Group Stephen Harby, FAAR’00 Angela Fowler Lynne Lancaster, FAAR’02 and Nana Gregory Thomas Carpenter Jane Quinn and Carll Tucker Ili Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09 and Margaret Woodring Eric Lindgren Michael C. J. Putnam, FAAR’64, RAAR’70 Contributors and Kenneth Gaulin Marta Abbott Barry Strauss, RAAR’13 Deborah Belford de Furia Marco Dalla Vedova Contributors Victoria Davidson Malcolm Bell, FAAR’70, RAAR’89 Brook Edinger and Katherine Meighan Ludmila Bidwell Nancy Galan and Elizabeth Wahn Goletti Jeffrey Blanchard, FAAR’79 Abigail Gillespie Mary T. Boatwright Jesse Kakumoto and Mika Hisatani Liana Brent, FAAR’19 Meghan and George Knight Margaret Brucia, FAAR’92 Vania Lorenzo Corrias Cynthia Bronson Altman Cornelia Lauf Laura Chioffi Minna Lee Harry Evans Lenore Macdonald Elizabeth Fentress Etta Madden Karl Galinsky Jeannette Montgomery Barron and Abigail Gillespie James D. Barron Sebastian Hierl Sven and Katherine Moos Ann Koloski-Ostrow Claudia Pellicano and Joseph Anza Hugh Lee Heather and Christopher Perreault Carol Lewine Maria Grazia Quieti and Kathryn Lucchese Robert Sonnabend Jackie Murray, FAAR’12 Mary Ann Redburn Heather Reid, FAAR’15 Heather Reid, FAAR’15 Ann and Russell Scott Gianne Reiss Dinah Seiver Lovisa Stephenson Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen Corinna Turati and Mario Valerio Nocenzi Judith Stonehill Alysa Weinstein Gravina and Linda Williams Carmine Gravina

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Lynne Lancaster was AAR’s Andrew W. library in Europe, established in 1609. 5 Mellon Humanities Professor from 2018 to The current eighteenth-century interior is FAÇADE OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE 2021. She and her husband, the archae- a rare example of the three-tier system of P.za di Santa Maria Maggiore ologist and professor Tom Carpenter, have shelving, complete with secret stairways Santa Maria Maggiore has a hidden both retired from Ohio University and will and fake shelving acting as hidden doors. thirteenth-century mosaic façade behind return to their home in Cincinnati, where The librarians are nice about letting one the front loggia that shows the foundation they will take up posts as research fellows have a look. myth surrounding an August snowfall. The at the University of Cincinnati. The follow- porch from which one views the mosaic ing selections are places that Lynne and 3 leads to Bernini’s spiral staircase tucked Tom discovered for the first time during MUSEO HENDRIK CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN away in a corner. their three years in Rome. Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 20 This bizarre museum—once the 6 1 self-designed home and studio (1922) of VILLA TORLONIA AND THE CASINA ORTO BOTANICO DI ROMA Henrik Andersen, a close friend of Henry DELLE CIVETTE Largo Cristina di Svezia, 24 James—is filled with oversized plaster Via Nomentana, 70 This lovely space just below the Janiculum casts of human sculptures designed for Villa Torlonia is a fascinating mix of is often overlooked—both figuratively and his utopian community. nineteenth-century antiquarianism and literally—by those living at the Academy. the Arts and Crafts Movement, comprising It is connected to Villa Corsini, whose gar- 4 the villa itself where Mussolini lived and dens were turned into a botanical garden AULA GOTICA the adorable Casina delle Civette, which in 1883. The upper reaches, just below Via dei SS. Quattro, 20 today houses a collection of magnificent the Fontanone, have lovely Japanese The Aula Gotica at the church of Quattro early-twentieth-century stained glass, waterfalls and hidden trails amidst the Coronati is a reception room lavishly many of which were designed by Duilio gigantic bamboo. painted with elaborate thirteenth-century Cambellotti, who also created fittings for frescos that remained hidden under Villa Bellaci, home of the AAR Director. 2 whitewash until 1995. Restorers also BIBLIOTECA ANGELICA discovered hidden pipes in the walls that Piazza di S. Agostino, 8 conducted sound between it and the This wonderful library, in the heart of Chapel of St. Sylvester below. the Campus Martius, is the oldest public

60 AAR Magazine Founded in 1894, the American Academy in Rome is the oldest American AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME overseas center for independent study and advanced research in BOARD OF TRUSTEES the arts and humanities. A not-for-profit, privately funded institu- Alessia Antinori tion, the Academy awards the Rome Prize to a select group of artists Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, RAAR’17 Cynthia L. Beck and scholars annually, after an application process that begins each Michael Bierut, RAAR’16 fall. The winners, selected by independent juries through a national Susanna Borghese competition process, are invited to Rome the following year to Jim Brennan pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and Martin Brody, RAAR’02 William M. Cameron artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange. Awards are Cary J. Davis, Chair offered in the following categories: Literature, Music Composition, Sharon Davis, Treasurer Visual Arts, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Ginevra Elkann Gaetani Historic Preservation and Conservation, as well as Ancient, Medieval, Joseph A. Farrell Jr., RAAR’14** Stephen Greenblatt, RAAR’10 Renaissance and Early Modern, and Modern Italian Studies. The Ann Hamilton, RAAR’17 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- Guy Hedreen, FAAR’94 tional community in Rome. Phu Hoang, FAAR’17* Michelle Hobart Walter J. Hood, FAAR’97, RAAR’14 Fondata nel 1894, l’American Academy in Rome è il più antico centro amer- Henry P. Johnson icano fuori dagli Stati Uniti dedicato allo studio indipendente e alla William C. Jordan, RAAR’18 ricerca avanzata nelle arti e nelle discipline umanistiche. L’Accademia David I. Kertzer, RAAR’00 David A. Lang, FAAR’91, RAAR’17 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 Anne Welsh McNulty di artisti e studiosi. Il processo di selezione è affidato a un concorso Simon D. Mordant AO nazionale negli Stati Uniti che prende avvio in autunno e che si avvale Alexandra Munroe Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09 della valutazione di giurie indipendenti: i vincitori sono invitati a Nancy Novogrod, Secretary 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 Slobodan Randjelovic´ premia persone che operano nelle arti (architettura, architettura Mark Robbins, FAAR’97, President* John F. W. Rogers, Vice Chair del paesaggio, arti visive, composizione musicale, conservazione e Louisa Stude Sarofim restauro dei beni storico-artistici, design e letteratura) e nelle Avinoam Shalem, RAAR’16, Director* discipline umanistiche (studi classici, medievali, sul Rinascimento Frank M. Snowden, RAAR’03 e sulla prima età moderna, e sull’Italia moderna). L’Accademia, Francesco Starace David M. Stone, FAAR’98, RAAR’16 inoltre, invita a Roma alcuni prestigiosi esponenti delle arti e degli Calvin Tsao, RAAR’10 studi umanistici (Residenti), borsisti scelti in collaborazione con Maria Teresa Venturini Fendi altre importanti istituzioni e un selezionato gruppo di altri artisti e Suzy Wahba studiosi a unirsi e a lavorare insieme ai Borsisti all’interno della Carrie Mae Weems, FAAR’06 Adam D. Weinberg, RAAR’20 nostra eccezionale comunità. Sydney Houghton Weinberg Charles K. Williams II To learn more, please visit: Tod C. Williams, FAAR’83 AAROME.ORG LIFE TRUSTEE

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