Far Afield

A colloquium on “Repairing Architecture Schools,” coorganized by Jorge Otero-Pailos (2022 Resident) and hosted by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation on December 7, features Mireille Roddier (2022 Fellow) and Mario Gooden (2024 Resident) as speakers.

Rosa Lowinger is giving the Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies Lecture Series at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts on December 5. Her talk is titled “Art versus the Great Outdoors: Wrestling with the Meaning of Repair.”

Molissa Fenley (2008 Fellow) presents Going to the Sun, a new piece for nineteen dancers with music by Sakamoto Ryuichi Glacier, for the Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department. Performances are at Theresa Lang Theater in New York.

Rochelle Feinstein (2018 Fellow) showcases new work connecting canvas, color, and gesture with the personal and public conditions of our time in a solo exhibition called The Today Show, which opens on December 6 at the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession in Austria.

Emigration for leaders of the Bauhaus “was an experience of adaptation and success as well as loss and estrangement, at least for the big names,” writes Hal Foster (2023 Resident) in an assessment of Robin Schuldenfrei’s Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders 1930–60, published in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

Catherine Opie (2021 Resident) visits the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University on December 5 to talk about her collaboration with Ron Athey and the creation of her Trojan Whore series of photographs.

A December 5 roundtable on “Imagining the World of the Italian Renaissance” at New College of Florida, organized by Carrie Beneš (2009 Fellow) with Jessica Maier (2005 Fellow) speaking, considers the nature of maps and the history of European exploration.

On December 3 Franco Baldasso (2019 Fellow) and Ziad Dallal will speak with the filmmakers Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo at Bard College following a screening of their cinéma vérité documentary, It Will Be Chaos (2018).

Today Christopher Stark (2023 Fellow) releases a new album, The Language of Landscapes, on vinyl. The composer performed electronics, with the duo New Morse Code adding cello and percussion.

John Delury, the 2024 Tsao Family Rome Prize Fellow, commented on relations between the United States and China in a New York Times article on the recently concluded Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Maira Kalman (2012 Affiliated Fellow) discusses a new collection of illustrations, titled Still Life with Remorse, with Rumaan Alam at the New York Public Library on November 21.

A Harvard University symposium dedicated to the work of Giuliana Bruno (2019 Resident), an interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture, takes place on November 21. The event features a keynote address delivered by Isaac Julien (2016 Resident).

The London Review of Books has published a poem called “[    ]” by Jorie Graham (2008 Resident). The issue also contains a review of Martin McLaughlin’s book Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist by Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident).

Nicola Barbagli (2024 Fellow) was featured in the documentary Operation Louxor: The Great Adventure of the Concorde Obelisk on the French channel Toute l’histoire on October 23. Around minute 42 he appears walking through the Academy’s Cortile toward the library, and then in the Arthur Ross Reading Room.

Mary-Evelyn Farrior (2024 Fellow) and Allison L. C. Emmerson (2019 Fellow, former Mellon Professor) are speaking at a British School at Rome conference, focused on (Re)uniting City and Country: New Research on Urban and Suburban Socio-topographical Structures, on November 14 and 15, respectively.

Barbara Campbell (2023 Affiliated Fellow) includes work with imagery that she collected in Rome in a two-person exhibition (with Neil Roberts) titled Greeks and Romans. The show is on view at Articulate Upstairs in Sydney, Australia, from November 2 to 24, 2024.

On November 13 Dale Kinney (1972 Fellow, 1997 Resident) will explore “The Mongrel Beauty of Spolia Colonnades” at a conference titled Beauty and Proportion: Exploring Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean and Beyond, 300–1100 that is taking place this week at the Norwegian Institute in Rome.

Beaufort Scales, a thirty-five-minute composition by Christopher Cerrone (2016 Fellow) for eight high voices and live electronics, has been nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. This is Cerrone’s third album to be nominated for a Grammy and his first as producer as well as composer.

The exhibition Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–30, curated by Vivien Greene (2004 Fellow) and Tracey Bashkoff, opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Three Academy Residents—Giuliana Bruno (2019), Mabel O. Wilson (2022), and Hal Foster (2023)—speak at a Princeton School of Architecture symposium dedicated to the work of Anthony Vidler.