Far Afield

On August 6, Princeton University’s School of Architecture will open From Las Vegas to Rome, an exhibition of photographs by Iwan Baan that was first shown at the American Academy in Rome in 2022.

Raymond Saunders (1966 Fellow), a visionary mixed‑media artist known for powerful abstract figuration and layered collage techniques, died on July 19, 2025. Saunders influenced generations of artists through his teaching at the California College of the Arts and his groundbreaking exhibitions over a six‑decade career.

Federica Nicolardi, an associate professor of papyrology at the University of Naples Federico II, is among the winners of more than €11.5 million in European funding under the ERC Synergy Grant call for the UnLost project. Her teams will work on a project reading from Herculaneum.

In Classicism and Other Phobias, published by Princeton University Press, Dan‑el Padilla Peralta (2023 Resident) argues that the traditional enshrinement of Greek and Roman antiquity as “the classical” perpetuates a “conceptual dictatorship” that devalues Black aesthetic expression.

The fifth novel from Katie Kitamura (2024 Fellow), Audition, was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. The book follows an unnamed actress whose seemingly innocuous lunch with a young man spirals into a Möbius‑strip narrative that probes the performative nature of identity.

Andrea Bajani (2017 Italian Fellow) has won the seventy-ninth Premio Strega for his novel L’anniversario (The Anniversary), following the final vote at Rome’s Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia. The award—Italy’s most prestigious literary prize—was announced during a live Rai 3 broadcast on July 3.

Rochelle Feinstein: The Today Show , a solo exhibition opening at Ludwig Forum Aachen in Germany, surveys our 2018 Fellow’s bold works investigating culture, media, and language with sharp wit.

Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965, written by Thomas J. Campanella (2011 Fellow) and published by Princeton University Press, looks at two unsung giants of American landscape and urban design.

The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer's Life, written by Margaret A. Brucia (1992 Fellow) and published by Princeton University Press, is an intimate portrait of a modernist American poet.

The University of Texas Press will soon publish The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii by Brenda Longfellow (2013 Fellow), a book examining gender, space, and survival in Roman homes.

Sinclair Bell (2003 Fellow) was named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, DC, for spring 2026. His project is Aethiopians in Roman Art and Society: Race, Representation, and Social Practice.

Jen Shyu (2025 Fellow) performs The Missing of the Future on July 7 at MACRO Museum in Rome as part of Sublime cliché, the third annual Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes.

The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece, an exhibition organized by Claire Lyons (2022 Resident) with Nicole Budrovich, opens on June 27 at the Getty Villa in California.

Experience a concert on July 2 that includes the premiere of a new work by Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow) at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.

MoCA CT will present At the Beach, an exhibition of photographs by Tod Papageorge (2009 Resident), alongside works by his former graduate students in a companion show called In the Pool, from June 26 to October 12, 2025.

Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) returns to Villa Medici in Rome on June 19 for a communal reading and a new presentation of Shorelines, an installation conceived by the collective black cat day dream. Curatorial duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (2025 Italian Fellows) is among those reading selected “beautiful” pages from favorite books during the event.

The Palo Alto Players in California will stage the Pulitzer Prize–winning drama Sweat by Lynn Nottage (2023 Resident) at the Lucie Stern Theater between June 13 and 29.

Devon Dikou and Julia Rose Katz (2025 Fellows) will celebrate the release of Permanent Accident, a collaborative artist’s book published by zingmagazine that explores themes of fragmentation, recontextualization, and montage, on June 12 in the American Academy’s Salone.

For the exhibition Black Soil Poems at Galleria Borghese in Rome, Wangechi Mutu (2019 Resident) places her own work throughout the museum’s galleries, façade, and gardens.

The University of California Press has published Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire by Aaron Cayer (2024 Fellow). The book examines the architects at AECOM who shaped global systems and power structures, concealing their influence behind corporate architecture.