Far Afield

Fiori Sara Berhane (2020 Fellow) has published her article “The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition: Blackness, Predation, and Non-Statist Solidarities in the Migration of Eritreans to Europe” in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology.

A new book from Brill edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara (2014 Fellow), From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, explores Jesuit enterprise and Ming-Qing China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 

On August 19, Olivia De Prato (violin) and David Adamcyk (electronics) perform a program that includes Mapping a Joyful Path by Miya Masaoka (2023 Fellow) at the TIME:SPANS festival in New York.

“When I first started preparing courses on reuse, I was at the American Academy in Rome,” said Jeanne Gang (2016 and 2018 Resident) in an Architect’s Newspaper interview. “It was perfect to be in Rome during this time because there are examples of reuse everywhere—not just in buildings, but also with their components.”

Work by Estefania Puerta Grisales (2024 Fellow) appears in To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection, opening today at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The exhibition explores how museums “collect, care for, and amplify the work of artists who celebrate ideas of impermanence and cycles of decay and regeneration.”
 

Richard Brilliant (1962 Fellow), a renowned scholar of ancient Greek and Roman art and professor emeritus of art history and archaeology at Columbia University, has died. He was 94 years old. The culmination of Brilliant's two-year Academy fellowship, preceded by a two-year Fulbright, was a definitive study of the Arch of Septimius Severus.

On August 15, Wet Ink Ensemble will perform the world premiere of Epithets by Kate Soper (2024 Fellow) at the TIME:SPANS festival in New York. The piece, commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, includes vocals by Soper.

On August 13, the ensemble Longleash will perform works by three Rome Prize Fellows—Katherine Balch (2021), Igor Santos (2022), and Jonah Haven (2025)—at Mary Flagler Cary Hall in New York during the TIME:SPANS festival. Santos’s Nossas Mãos (Our Hands) will be a world premiere.

For Castelbasso 2024, the visual artist Giuseppe Stampone (2014 Italian Fellow) presents Game Over, a double exhibition conceived as a retrospective on twenty years of activity, from 2004 to the present. Organized by Ilaria Bernardi, Game Over takes place July 27–August 31 at Palazzo De Sanctis and Palazzo Clemente.

Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750–1850 by Anna Majeski (2019 Fellow) is a book on the work of William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon that accompanies an exhibition of the same name that she organized for the American Philosophical Society.

Robyn Schiff (2023 Fellow) has won the 2024 Four Quartets Prize for her poetry collection, Information Desk: An Epic. Awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, Four Quartets includes a $20,000 prize.

Next week Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, a new nonfiction book from Eliza Griswold (2010 Fellow).

Sarah Ganz Blythe (2022 Affiliated Fellow) of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum will begin her new post as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums on August 12.

The photographer James Casebere (2020 Fellow) is presenting Shou Sugi Ban Sculptures at ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck, New York. On view through October 13 are, according to the gallery, “large-scale wooden geometric sculptures that engage notions of synthetic nature: bio-design—or self-generating forms that suggest organic or inorganic growth.”

Music by Ken Ueno (2007 Fellow) plays in concert at Goethe-Institut Tokyo in Japan on July 31. The evening is based on the art movement Fluxus, and the audience may participate in the performances.

Rä di Martino (2018 Italian Fellow) has won the A Fabrica Prize, awarded to a project produced or coproduced by a European firm and consisting of €15,000 in postproduction sound aid. Her film is called Ya & Niki.

Thomas Leslie (2014 Fellow) has won the Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award for his study of Chicago Skyscrapers 1934–1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City.

The contributors to Days End, a Whitney Museum and Yale University Press book on the artist David Hammons (1990 Fellow) to be published on July 23, include two Academy Residents, Adam D. Weinberg (2020, 2022) and Guy Nordenson (2009).

On July 23, Hogath will publish the second novel from Sarah Manguso (2008 Fellow), titled Liars, which explores the sometimes-contentious intersections of the modern family, career aspirations, creativity, and motherhood.

For A Day at the Beach, opening on July 17 at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, Eric Fischl (1996 Resident) allows the public to create their own “paintings” in the studio with precut magnetic figures.