American Academy in Rome

As a 2017 Affiliated Fellow, Laura E. Migliorino photographed books from the Rare Book Room and the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library. The series, titled The Hidden Life of Books Chapter I, is premiering at Photo Book Works and No. 3 Reading Room in Beacon, New York, on Saturday, June 8. The exhibition will be on view until June 30.

The Rome gallery Magazzino is opening an exhibition of work by Namsal Siedlecki, a 2016 Italian Fellow, on Wednesday, May 15. The show, simply titled A, will be on view through July 15.

AAR director John Ochsendorf recently appeared on Amanpour and Company, a public-affairs television program broadcast on PBS, to discuss how laser technology and three-dimensional models of Notre-Dame Cathedral made by the late art historian Andrew Tallon are crucial to the building’s repair.

AAR director John Ochsendorf spoke to Popular Mechanics about the role of the meticulous laser scans produced by the late art historian Andrew Tallons in rebuilding the Notre-Dame Cathedral.