Far Afield

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.

The closing reception for Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts (Part One) by the architect Erin Besler (2019 Fellow), taking place June 7 at Art Omi in Ghent, New York, offers a carpentry workshop with Build Hudson.

The launch of a new English-language edition of Michelangelo Antonioni’s book That Bowling Alley on the Tiber at Supernova in Rome on June 9 features a screening of The Passenger followed by a reading from the book by Julia Rose Katz (2025 Fellow).

Anna Arabindan-Kesson (2023 Affiliated Fellow) has contributed an essay to a new book, Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art, published by Thames and Hudson.

Last month Rebecca Messbarger (2021 Fellow) of Italian at Washington University in St. Louis launched The Eye, a medical humanities podcast exploring health, illness, and care through storytelling, interviews, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The Middle East Institute’s Arts and Culture Center in Washington, DC, welcomes the writer and professor Azar Nafisi (2005 Resident), who will reflect on the power of literature in times of crisis at this June 3 event.

Curated by Guglielmo Corb, From Fulfilment to Adaptation features work by Devon Dikeou (2025 Fellow). The exhibition will be held at Seconde Vue in Rome from June 3 to 6, 2025.

Tomorrow Teresita Fernández (1999 Affiliated Fellow, 2017 Resident) and Darren Walker will be in conversation at the Ford Foundation’s Center for Social Justice in New York to celebrate the publication of an edited volume, A Handbook of Latinx Art.

Today Higher Pictures in New York presents 44 Irving Street 1970–1971, the earliest series of photographs by Susan Meiselas (2017 Resident). The exhibition was previously seen at Harvard Art Museums.

Tonight Vijay Ayer (2025 Resident) will give a performance of solo piano works at Casa del Jazz in Rome, in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome.

Historian Ingrid D. Rowland (1982 Fellow, 2000 Resident) considers Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture in an essay for the latest edition of the New York Review of Books.

Alexandra Kleeman (2021 Fellow) has won the Berlin Prize. She will work on her novel The Taxon Cycle at the American Academy in Berlin in fall 2025.

Opening today at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the exhibition William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations surveys twenty years of painting, sculpture, work on paper, and collage by our 2022 Fellow in visual arts.

Peter N. Miller, President and CEO of the American Academy in Rome, received the Cultural Diplomacy Award on May 7 from the Foreign Policy Association.

Following the restoration of her land art piece Field Rotation at Governors State University’s Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Mary Miss (1989 Resident) will be in conversation with curator Nathan Manilo at 21c Museum Hotel in Chicago on May 15.

Marsha Ginsberg (2020 Fellow) was nominated for a Tony Award in the category of Best Scenic Design for a Play for her work on English, written by Sanaz Toossi.

The University of Cincinnati turns to Stephanie Pilat (2007 Fellow) to lead its College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She will become dean on July 1.

The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies has appointed Dominique Kirchner Reill (2013 Fellow) as its next director, effective July 1, 2025. She also joins the University of Alberta as professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion.