News from Daniel Davidson, Katarzyna Jerzak, Ron Musto and more.
Daniel Davidson, FAAR'95 recently had two solo exhibits, "Double Feature" at Mullherin+Pollard in New York City in November 2012, and "Magic Kingdom" at Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen this past February. Photo courtesy of Gallery Poulson. Katarzyna Jerzak, FAAR'00 collaborated with French musician and video director Yoann Lemoine, also known as Woodkid, on a book that accompanies the deluxe limited edition of his first music album, The Golden Age. A meditation on childhood and loss, it is also a love story. Listen to a short reading here. The book was illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. Jerzak currently teaches English Philology at Academia Pomeraniensis in Poland. She will read from the book on 28 April from 12:15 to 2 pm at Congregation Beth El in Potsdam, New York. Medieval Naples: A Documentary History, 400-1400 edited by Ronald G. Musto, FAAR'79 is now available in paperback. This is an updated version of the iPad and Kindle editions published last year by Italica Press."This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of sources yet to treat the city of Naples from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance. Sources are drawn from its historical, economic, literary, artistic, religious and cultural life from the fall of Rome through the Byzantine, ducal, Norman, Hohenstaufen and Angevin periods." It complements Medieval Naples, an Architectural & Urban History 400-1400 by Caroline Bruzelius, FAAR'86, RAAR'89 and William Tronzo, FAAR'79, also published by Italica Press. See Musto's Interactive Map of Medieval Naples.