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Detail of Julie Mehretu, Black Monolith, for Okwui Enwezor (Charlottesville), 2017–20, ink and acrylic on canvas, 84 x 72 in. (artwork © Julie Mehretu; photograph by Tom Powel Imaging)
Installation view of Matthew Brennan and Eugenia Morpurgo’s “2100” at AAR in February 2020 (photograph by Giorgio Benni/American Academy in Rome, Institutional Archives)
Detail of Al Held, Padua II, 1981, acrylic on canvas, 213.36 × 213.36 cm (photograph provided by the Al Held Foundation and White Cube)
Installation view of Encounters I with a display of works by Eugene Berman
Inner wall of Höweler + Yoon’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (photograph by J. Meejin Yoon)
Avinoam Shalem (photograph © Boris Hars-Tschachotin)
Elsewhere
Rome Prize
Time and Space to Think and Work
For over a century, the Rome Prize has supported innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their careers.
