Far Afield

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.

On November 7 David Schutter (2016 Fellow) will open a solo exhibition of new paintings based on John Constable’s The Grove, or the Admiral’s House in Hampstead at Magazzino in Rome, his second show with the gallery.

Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky (2024 Residents) have published a monograph, Architecture. Research. Office., with DelMonico Books that documents thirty years of the firm’s practice.

Edward Champlin (1994 Resident) publishes Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power. Princeton University Press calls the book “a radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor.”

A reading by Sigrid Nunez (2001 Fellow) on November 7 concludes the fall slate of speakers in the Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series for Cornell University’s Creative Writing Program.

In the New York Review of Books, the critic and biographer Jed Perl (2003 Affiliated Fellow) assesses a new volume that compiles photographs taken by Ralph Ellison (1957 Fellow) throughout his lifetime.

For “The Black Presence in European Art, 1100–1500,” a Zoom webinar hosted by the Newberry Library on November 1, Denva Gallant (2023 Fellow) and Paul Kaplan will discuss the state of this expanding field in which new voices and interdisciplinary perspectives have enriched scholarly discourse.

The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic hosts the world premiere of a new film, Softly Brutal, by Ila Bêka (2019 Italian Fellow) and Louise Lemoine on October 31, with a second viewing on November 2.

Today at Monona Terrace in Wisconsin, Jacob Morrison (2024 Affiliated Fellow) will discuss how architects thoughtfully engage their physical surroundings, historical settings, and social environments.

Today the architect Sharon Johnston (2017 Resident) will give the Eleanore Pettersen Lecture, on the subject of “Art and the City,” at Cooper Union in New York. A Q&A moderated by Nader Tehrani (2018 Resident) follows the talk.

Barbara Kolb (1971 Fellow, 1976 Resident), the first American woman to win the Rome Prize in musical composition and an AAR Trustee Emerita, has died. She was 85 years old.

Eugenio Refini (2022 Fellow) moderates a discussion on “Blackness, Power, and Representation in Renaissance Florence” at New York University’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò on October 29. The panel follows a screening of Il Moro, written and directed by Daphne Di Cinto, who will speak.

The painter Douglas Argue (1998 Fellow) will speak about his monograph Letters to the Future and his latest body of work, Fire for Fire, at Sub Rosa in Northampton, Massachusetts, on October 26.

Tomorrow the poet Yusef Komunyakaa (2018 Resident) accepts the William E. Morgan Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater, Colorado State University in Fort Collins.