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Nathaniel Mackey | Part Two of the American Classics Series at the American Academy in Rome

The 2016 academic year at the American Academy in Rome is characterized by a series of events called ‘American Classics.’ What does it mean to be American in the 21st Century? Wh..

The London Film Festival strikes out with Black Star Symposium

The 60th edition of the BFI London Film Festival is almost here. This edition will make history because – if my memory serves me correctly – no film festival has ever taken such ..

Anna Deavere Smith brings her Documentary Theater style to Rome

On March 3, 1991, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department stopped motorist Rodney King for a traffic violation. What happened after he came out of his car it’s probably t..

Manana | Are you ready for the first Afro-Cuban and Electronic Festival?

Next August 13th Fidel Castro is turning 90 years old. Last week he gave his last speech, at the closure of the Seventh Congress of Cuba’s Communist Party. A valedictory speech t..

Triumphs and Laments | William Kentridge joins Rome’s Birthday Celebration

Finally the Triumph has arrived. In the past weeks the 500 meter-long frieze newest work by internationally acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge has come to life in a..

Juan Atkins |The founder of Techno music is heading to Rome

Try being born in Detroit where it is more profitable to burn a house down rather than to sell it, where it is easier to encounter a ghost than an open supermarket. Try being..

ReSignifications | The Moors conquest of Florence

There’s a 13th century Celtic Arthurian tale which tells the story of Morien, son of Sir Aglovale, one of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table.

While searching for Lancelo..

Nero su Bianco | On the Afro-Italian Identity at the American Academy in Rome

On May 26 the American Academy in Rome opened NERO su BIANCO (Black on White), a provocative interrogation of race and identity in contemporary Italy, envisioned by 27 visual art..

Dorothy Iannone | Love, psychedelia and eroticism on display at Air de Paris

In 1961 when the police surprised her at the New York Airport while trying to bring Henry Miller’s banned book, Tropic of Cancer into the country, Dorothy Iannone was an American..