American Academy in Rome

May 29 in Rome—Teresita Fernández, a 2018 Resident and 1999 Affiliated Fellow, will discuss her experiential work in a lecture evocatively titled “Wayfinding: Bamboo Cinema, Blind Landscape, Fata Morgana.”

Peter Benson Miller, AAR’s Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, talks to Exibart about Yto Baradda’s exhibition “The Dye Garden” and the Academy’s 2017–18 theme “East and West.”

Applications for AAR’s Visiting Artists & Scholars program are due May 31 for stays of at least two weeks between mid-September and late December.

This week AAR will present a conference on “Islamic Art and Architecture in Italy: Between Tradition and Innovation.” There is a keynote lecture by Avinoam Shalem on Thursday evening (http://bit.ly/2L1Tgyq), followed by a full program of speakers on Friday (http://bit.ly/2vXdiqu).

Registration is open for “Designing Water,” a two-day symposium that explores the relationship of design and water across time, space, and scale. “Designing Water” will be held October 17–18, 2018, at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

This week AAR is hosting a conference on “Islamic Art and Architecture in Italy: Between Tradition and Innovation.” Keynote lecture by Avinoam Shalem on Thursday evening (http://bit.ly/2L1Tgyq) and a full program on Friday (http://bit.ly/2vXdiqu).

Applications for AAR’s Visiting Artists & Scholars program are due May 31 for stays of at least two weeks between mid-September and late December. Learn more at http://bit.ly/2mnKJuL!!!

Sabato, 12 maggio—L’American Academy in Rome parteciperà alla VII edizione di Open House Roma: in quest’occasione l’Accademia organizzerà visite guidate in italiano dell’edificio principale (il McKim, Mead & White Building), che comprenderanno il Cortile, la Biblioteca “Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library” e il Giardino “Bass”.

Congrats to Rob Giampietro, a 2015Fellow in design, for his new job as director of design at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

Publicity in Il Giornale dell'Arte for Yto Barrada’s exhibition “The Dye Garden,” opening today at the American Academy in Rome!

Opening tomorrow in Rome—Yto Barrada’s “The Dye Garden,” an exhibition that includes her film “Tree Identification for Beginners,” which she created while a fall 2017 Resident at the American Academy in Rome.

Rashwan Abdelbaki, a 2017 Affiliated Fellow, has work in “(Dis)Figured,” a three-person gallery exhibition at Montoro12 Contemporary Art in Rome, on view until May 15.