Regeneration will open with a Conversations/Conversazioni between two artists featured in the exhibition, Sonya Clark (2017 Affiliate Fellow) and Guillermo Kuitca (2022 Resident). The event will be moderated by Lindsay Harris, interim Andrew Heiskell Arts Director and cocurator of the exhibition.

Sonya Clark is an artist and the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Guillermo Kuitca is an artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation generously supports Conversations/Conversazioni at the American Academy in Rome. The Residency of Guillermo Kuitca is made possible by the Mary Miss Resident in Visual Art Fund.

Monuments, like those that define Rome, are intended to be permanent but can be most powerful when they are in decline, as ruins and remains. How do those engaged in historic preservation come to terms with this paradox? When is change acceptable, in what forms, and who gets to decide? Claire Lyons and Webber Ndoro will offer a transhistorical and cross-cultural set of responses to these questions, considering the politics of preservation from the perspective of institutions, governments, and a range of stakeholder communities. Elizabeth Rodini, interim Director and cocurator of Regeneration, will moderate the discussion.

Claire Lyons (2022 Resident) is curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and a specialist in the art and archaeology of pre-Roman Italy, Etruria, and Magna Graecia. Webber Ndoro is director general of ICCROM, an expert in global heritage management with a particular focus on the immovable heritage of sub-Saharan Africa.

Please visit the AAR website for more information.

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation generously supports Conversations/Conversazioni at the American Academy in Rome. The Residency of Claire Lyons is made possible by the Esther Van Deman Scholar in Residence Fund.