If art is a vehicle for reframing preservation, what impact could that have on practitioners? Or the public’s attitudes toward preservation as a discipline? This Conversation/Conversazioni will explore the emotive power of place, space, and objects, particularly as they relate to memory, presence, and endurance over time.

Jorge Otero-Pailos is an artist, preservationist, and professor and director of the Historic Preservation Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Sheena Wagstaff is Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The discussion will be moderated by Elizabeth Rodini, Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome.

This Conversations/Conversazioni, to be presented on Zoom and held in English, is free and open to the public. The start time is 12:00pm Eastern Time (6:00pm Central European Time).

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is the 2020–21 season sponsor of Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome.

Since Rome was not built in a day, how can we understand the processes by which the city developed? Nicola Camerlenghi and Pamela O. Long (2004 Fellow) have addressed this challenge for the medieval and early modern city, respectively.

Camerlenghi, associate professor of art history at Dartmouth College and digital humanities fellow at Villa I Tatti, has developed a diachronic, digital map of towers, bell towers, and other features to chart the medieval city’s network of power and surveillance. Long, an independent scholar of late medieval and Renaissance history, has studied long runs of documents and numerous printed maps across various Roman archives uncovering conflicts and problems during the late sixteenth century. Both scholars have then confronted their primary evidence with a first-hand, holistic engagement with the city. This Conversations/Conversazioni will treat their different but interrelated approaches to the evolving Eternal City.

This conversation, to be presented on Zoom, is free and open to the public. The start time is 6:00pm Central European Time (12:00 noon Eastern Time).

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is the 2020–21 season sponsor of Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome.

This event is part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: The Body.

How does modern architecture construct and “screen” body space? How do material relations show on surfaces, from faces to façades? Discussing the representation of surface space in architecture and media, this conversation, moderated by John Ochsendorf, will touch on walls, screens, masks, and projections, both literal and figurative.

Giuliana Bruno is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and 2019 Louis Kahn Resident in the History of Art at the American Academy in Rome. Alice Friedman is Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art at Wellesley College and 2019 Rea S. Hederman Critic in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. John Ochsendorf (2008 Fellow) is Class of 1942 Professor of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the American Academy in Rome.

The event will be held in English.

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is the 2018–19 season sponsor of Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome.

Each year the Rome Prize is awarded to emerging artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Please join us in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York on Tuesday, April 9 as we announce the 2019 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows.

The program from the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony also features a Conversations | Conversazioni event titled “Integrity and Public Office: Classical Greek and Roman Perspectives” with Melissa Lane, professor of politics and director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University (2018 Resident), speaking with John Ochsendorf, AAR director (2008 Fellow). A Prosecco toast will follow the program.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is the 2018–19 season sponsor of Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome.

Cultural Patrimony
January 3, 2019, 6:30 PM
San Diego Central Library
Neil Morgan Auditorium, 330 Park Boulevard
San Diego, California

The speakers will be: James Cuno, president and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust; C. Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania (1992 Fellow, 2012 Resident); and Laurie Rush, cultural resources manager, Department of Defense (2011 Fellow).

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is the 2018–19 season sponsor of Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome.

The Body and the Road to Justice
December 5, 2018, 7:00 PM
MAXXI
Via Guido Reni, 4
Rome, Italy

Wangechi Mutu
Artist

Peter Benson Miller
Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, American Academy in Rome

Anne Palopoli
Curator, MAXXI

This event is free to the public.

This event is part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: The Body.

To inaugurate the exhibition Paolo Gioli: Anthropolaroid, the artist will speak about his work in conversation with the photography critic and historian Roberta Valtorta.

One of the most respected specialists in Italian photography, Valtorta has collaborated with Paolo Gioli for many years. In 1996, Valtorta curated the retrospective dedicated to Gioli’s work held at the Palazzo degli Esposizioni in Rome. Most recently, she contributed an essay to the volume Paolo Gioli, Etruschi Polaroid 1984, published this year by Humboldt Books. Together, the artist and critic will consider Gioli’s representations of the human body, his contemporary dialogue with classical antiquity, and his experimental approach to the Polaroid medium.

Gioli is the Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome for 2018–19.

THE WORLD IS OLD, HISTORY IS NEW
A National Trust PastForward(TM) Conference Special Event in Partnership with the Chicago Architectural Biennial
18 November 2017
9:00-11:30 AM
Chicago Cultural Center - Claudia Cassidy Theater
78 Washington Street
Chicago, IL

Featuring:
Catherine Chin
Professor, Univerity of California Davis (2004 Fellow, 2014 Affiliated Fellow)
Eleanor Gorski
Deputy Commissioner of Planning, Design, and Historic Preservation, City of Chicago (2003 Fellow)
Dan Hurlin
Theater and Puppet Artist, Sarah Lawrence College (2014 Fellow)
Thomas Kelley
Partner, NormanKelley, LLC (2014 Fellow)
Thomas Leslie
Architectural Historian, Iowa State University (2014 Fellow)
Thompson Mayes
Historic Preservationist, National Trust for Historic Preservation (2014 Fellow)
Catie Newell
Installation Artist and Architect, University of Michigan (2014 Fellow)
Catherine Wagner
Artist and Professor, Mills College (2014 Fellow)

Please join us in New York City for a discussion among four of the six artists featured in the exhibition, NOW HERE IS NOWHERE: Six Artists from the American Academy in Rome – Carl D’Alvia, Tomaso De Luca, Jackie Saccoccio, and Nari Ward.

CARL D’ALVIA (2013 Fellow)
Artist

TOMASO DE LUCA (2017 Italian Fellow)
Artist

JACKIE SACCOCCIO (2005 Fellow)
Artist

NARI WARD (2013 Fellow)
Artis and Professor, Hunter College

Moderated by:
VIVIEN GREENE (2004 Fellow)
Senior Curator, Guggenheim Museum

Please join us in New York for a discussion between the writer and critic Daniel Mendelsohn (2017 Resident, 2010 Affiliated Fellow) and AAR director and professor of classics, Kimberly Bowes (2006 Fellow), at the Museum of Art and Design. Mendelsohn and Bowes will have a conversation about identity (gendered and otherwise) and space in both the ancient and modern worlds.

Mendelsohn is an award-winning author, critic, and translator. His essays, reviews, and articles appear in many publications. His books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award in the United States and the Prix Médicis in France, among many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken and Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays From the Classics to Pop Culture; and a two-volume translation of the poetry of C. P. Cavafy, which included the first English translation of the poet’s “Unfinished Poems.” Other honors include the PEN Harry Vursell Prize for Prose Style, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, the NBCC Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing, and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism. A member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Association, he teaches literature at Bard College.

Bowes is an archaeologist, specializing in the archaeology of late antique religions, domestic architecture, and Roman economics. She received her BA summa cum laude from Williams College, a MA with honors from the Courtauld Institute, and a doctorate from Princeton University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University from 2002 to 2004, she held assistant professorships at Fordham University and Cornell University, and is currently associate professor in classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of over thirty articles, two books, and two edited volumes, she also runs a major field project on Roman poverty in Tuscany, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Currently Bowes is serving in her final year as director of the American Academy in Rome, where she also served as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies from 2012 to 2014.

You can watch this event live at https://livestream.com/aarome.

The 2016–17 Conversations/Conversazioni series is sponsored by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.