Far Afield

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Theaster Gates’s First Solo Show in Japan

Today the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo opens Theaster Gates: Afro-Mingei, the first solo exhibition in Japan by our 2020 Resident. The presentation of work will be on view throughout the summer, ending on September 1.
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Daniel Mendelsohn Gives the Berlin Family Lectures at the University of Chicago

Today Daniel Mendelsohn (2010 Affiliated Fellow) will give the first of two Berlin Family Lectures, exploring the complexities of Homer’s Odyssey, at the University of Chicago.
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Mary Beard Analyzes “Museums and the Anxiety of History” at Stanford

On April 23, the British classicist Mary Beard (2019 Resident) delivers a lecture on “Unlocking the Cases: Museums and the Anxiety of History” at the Stanford Humanities Center.
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Cécile Fromont Heads to Harvard University

Cécile Fromont (2018 Fellow) will join the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University as a professor. She will also serve as the first faculty director of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at Harvard’s Hutchins Center.
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Fatma Bucak In Venice Biennale Collateral Event

Fatma Bucak (2024 Italian Fellow) has artwork in From Ukraine: Dare to Dream, a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, organized by Kyiv’s PinchukArtCentre and opening on April 20 at Palazzo Contarini Polignac.
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Jeanne Gang Advocates Architectural Grafting in a New Book

In her new book The Art of Architectural Grafting, Jeanne Gang (2017 Resident) advances the idea that a technique of plant cultivation—grafting—can benefit sustainable architecture and urban design.
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Fellows to Present at the Association of Ancient Historians Meeting

The Association of Ancient Historians, celebrating fifty years as an organization, holds its annual meeting from April 18 to 21 at Harvard University. The three-day program includes presentations by Rome Prize Fellows Kimberly Bowes (2006), Sarah Levin-Richardson (2015), and Jeremy Simmons (2020).

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Richard Wittman Examines Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the Ninenteenth Century

Richard Wittman (2010 Fellow) examines the nineteenth-century reconstruction of a fourth-century basilica in his new volume, Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls, published by Cambridge University Press.
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Simonetta Moro to Lead IDSVA as President

Simonetta Moro (2000 Affiliated Fellow) has become president of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, based in Portland, Maine. Since 2012 she has served as the school’s director, vice president for academic affairs, and professor of art, philosophy, and visual studies.
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Nasser Rabbat Discusses His “Critical Encounters”

On April 12 Nasser Rabbat (2018 Resident), a professor of Islamic architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joins the cofounder of the Dongola Architecture Series, Sarah Chalabi, and the series editor, Raafat Majzoub, for a conversation about their new book, Critical Encounters: Nasser Rabbat.
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New Book of Essays from Poet Natasha Trethewey

The poet Natasha Trethewey (2022 Resident) has published a new book of essays, called The House of Being, with Yale University Press as part of its “Why I Write” series.
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Steven J. R. Ellis Moderates “New Reports from Sardinia’s UNESCO Site”

Today Steven J. R. Ellis (2013 Fellow, 2016 Affiliated Fellow) moderates a conference session addressing “New Reports from Sardinia’s UNESCO Site: Nuragic Culture in Barumini” at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies.
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Sanchita Balachandran to Lead the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute

Sanchita Balachandran (2023 Resident) starts her new position as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute, based in Suitland, Maryland.
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Designer David Weeks Talks about His Practice

David Weeks (2024 Fellow) talks to Business of Home about the process for his “evolutionary” design practice, whose scope ranges widely from interior lighting to toys.
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Curbed Spotlights Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem

Curbed shows off the latest architectural project by 2017 Fellows Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem: an indoor-outdoor extension to their home in Brooklyn.
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Firelei Báez’s First North American Survey Exhibition

The artist Firelei Baez (2022 Fellow) “delves into the historical narratives of the Atlantic basin,” according to the curators of a major solo exhibition that just opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, on view through September 2.
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John Bodel Presents His Research on “Roman Teamsters” at Penn

Brown University professor John Bodel (1983 Fellow, 2006 Resident) will today explore “Roman Teamsters: Muliones (Muleteers) and the (Dis)organization of Land Transport in the Roman Empire” at this Department of Classical Studies colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Historian David Kertzer to Speak at Drew University

Today the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian David Kertzer (2000 Resident, Trustee) discusses his recent book, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler, at Drew University in New Jersey.
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Virtual Lecture by William Villalongo about His Fellowship

Tomorrow the Brooklyn-based artist William Villalongo (2022 Fellow) will give a virtual talk about his AAR experience for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, whose current exhibition Determined To Be presents sculpture by John Rhoden (1954 Fellow), the first Black visual artist to win a Rome Prize.
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New York University Hosts Event for Elizabeth Rodini Book

On April 2, Elizabeth Rodini, the Academy’s former Arts Director and interim Director, will discuss her book Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II at New York University’s Casa Italiana with Alex Dika Seggerman.