Far Afield

Curbed shows off the latest architectural project by 2017 Fellows Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem: an indoor-outdoor extension to their home in Brooklyn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tomorrow Richard Powell (2018 Resident), an art historian at Duke University, is giving the Lauder Distinguished Scholar Lecture on “Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

A new book published by Rizzoli, Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing, is edited by Alexander Gorlin (1984 Fellow) and Victoria Newhouse (Trustee Emerita).

The painter Robert Moskowitz (2002 Resident) has died, age 88. While in Rome he produced a critically praised body of work in spring 2002 that was inspired by two murals, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and the Tomb of the Diver.

Tomorrow the landscape architect Ross Altheimer (2013 Fellow) lectures virtually at an Architectural League of New York event, representing his firm TEN x TEN (founded with Maura Rockcastle) as one of the league’s 2024 Emerging Voices winners.

Today Jorge Otero-Pailos (2022 Resident) contextualizes his forthcoming public art installation in New York, titled Analogue Sites, on a panel addressing “Reimagining Eero Saarinen: The US Embassies of the Cold War and Beyond” at Scandinavia House.

A new book from 2004 Rome Prize Fellow Catherine Michael Chin, published by the University of California Press as Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe, explores the intersections between science, philosophy, and religion in late antiquity.

Two Academy-affiliated scholars, Ingrid Rowland (1982 Fellow, 2000 Resident) and Sinclair Bell (2003 Fellow), have edited Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius, which examines the ancient Roman architect from all angles.

The art historian Denva Gallant (2023 Fellow) collaborated with the musical composer Christopher Stark (2023 Fellow) on The Life of Macarius, a performance for speaker, vocoder, and strings that includes text from Gallant’s research into the Desert Fathers. The event takes place at Cornell University on March 24.

Sonya Clark (2017 Affiliated Fellow) is getting her first survey exhibition, titled Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other, at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. The show is on view from March 23 to September 22, 2024.

The Florentine scholar Nicola Barbagli (2024 Italian Fellow) will give a presentation tomorrow at a Vatican Museums conference called “Un Faraone Romano: Domiziano e l’Obelisco Pamphilj in Piazza Navona.”

Two Academy-affiliated visual artists, the sculptor Karyn Olivier (2019 Fellow) and the filmmaker Isaac Julien (2016 Resident), have work in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, which opens tomorrow in New York.

John Delury, the inaugural Tsao Family Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, writes an op-ed for the New York Times on US foreign policy and North Korea. 

Tomorrow the scholar Dominique K. Reill (2013 Fellow) of the University of Miami lectures virtually and in person at a Princeton University workshop on “Budapest: How LaGuardia Learned to Love a Jewish Metropolis.”

On March 18, the historian Ramie Targoff (2013 Resident) will converse about Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance, with the author and critic Merve Emre at Rizzoli Bookstore in New York. Targoff’s book appeared on the New York Times list of “7 New Books We Recommend This Week.”