The BSR is delighted to be a partner in the
Rome Transformed
project which has just received a major European Research Council grant to investigate 800 years of history on Rome’s Caelian Hill.
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Restoration work begins on the façade
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Our commitment to the conservation of cultural heritage as outlined in our
Research Strategy very much starts at home, as important restoration work starts on the BSR’s Lutyens façade in the 150th year since the birth of the famous British architect.
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AHRC post-doctoral fellowship for Rome Awardee Hervin Fernández-Aceves
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Congratulations to current Rome Awardee Hervin Fernández-Aceves on his post-doctoral fellowship as part of the four-year AHRC project 'Power, society, and (dis)connectivity in medieval Sardinia'.
One of the principal project outputs will be the establishment of a major new exhibition on Sardinia and its Mediterranean contexts at the National Museum in Cagliari.
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Bridget Riley Fellow Phoebe Boswell speaks at Royal Academy of Arts for International Women's Day
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In celebration of International Women's Day (8 March) Bridget Riley Fellow Phoebe Boswell spoke at the Royal Academy of Arts alongside Liv Wynter and Griselda Pollock on reimagining women’s art histories.
Her major solo show
The Space Between Things
took place at Autograph, London earlier this year. Phoebe is pictured above giving a studio visit at the BSR.
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Visit to Pompeii and Herculaneum
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BSR residents recently enjoyed
a visit to Pompeii and Herculaneum, under the guidance of Archaeology Officer Stephen Kay. Thanks go to the Herculaneum Conservation Project team who organised a special tour of the famous theatre of Herculaneum, the point at which the city was rediscovered in 1738 following the sinking of a well. Led by Dr Domenico Camardo, a leading expert on the city, the group was guided in the darkness around the labyrinth of Bourbon tunnels until emerging at the foot of the shaft where the statues that once adorned the
scaenae were hauled away.
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Ward-Perkins legacy celebrated
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Two recent events celebrated the legacy of John Bryan Ward-Perkins, the BSR's Director in the post-war years. On the occasion of the
Giornata Nazionale del Paesaggio, a permanent display of photographs from the BSR's Ward-Perkins Collection, South Etruria Series was opened in the Sale della Rocca Colonna at Castelnuovo di Porto.
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BSR supports
You Got To Burn To Shine
at La Galleria Nazionale
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In early February we supported our neighbours next door at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in launching the exhibition
You Got To Burn To Shine, curated by Teresa Macrì. The dinner we hosted after the official exhibition opening was a great success.
Participating artists include Francis Alÿs, Bertille Bak, Elena Bellantoni, Jeremy Deller, Roberto Fassone, John Giorno, Luca Guadagnino, Mike Kelley, Krištof Kintera, Domenico Mangano & Marieke van Rooy, Fiamma Montezemolo, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa.
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In November Fine Arts Adviser Marta Pellerini inaugurated a new series of talks on the theme of gender. The first event was a conversation between Linder Sterling -
known for her radical feminist photomontage, and confrontational performance art focusing on questions of gender, commodity and display – and classicist Mark Bradley
who has been working with Linder since the two met during Linder’s residency at Chatsworth House. In February alumnus
John Walter gave a talk addressing the history of HIV as a subject for art and most recently in March we hosted the
artist and poet Tomaso Binga.
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Under Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport visits the BSR
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In November we welcomed Michael Ellis, the Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media to the BSR. Mr Ellis took a tour of our Library collections and visited some of our artists’ studios.
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Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership enjoys a second successful residential programme
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Following the success of last year's inaugural residential Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Programme, in January we hosted sixteen students from Durham, Newcastle and Queen's Belfast universities.
Read more in our guest blog by Annie Tindley
, Consortium Director for the AHRC Northern Bridge DTP.
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UK event recordings now available online
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A legacy and trajectory of interdisciplinarity at the BSR
A lecture by Assistant Directors Peter Campbell, Martina Caruso and Harriet O'Neill
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Paestum: what new excavations and scientific analysis tell us about a Greek city in Italy
BSR-Institute of Classical Studies Lecture
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Image credits
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Lateran Project team members: Elena Pomar. BSR façade: Natalie Arrowsmith. Hervin Fernández-Aceves: Antonio Palmieri. Phoebe Boswell giving a studio visit: Natalie Arrowsmith. Michael Ellis visiting artists' studios: Natalie Arrowsmith. Northern Bridge students at work: Natalie Arrowsmith. Dinner reception for
You Got To Burn To Shine
: Natalie Arrowsmith. John Walter: courtesy of John Walter. Award-holders at Pompeii: Elena Pomar. Image from BSR Photographic Archive (Ward-Perkins Collection, South Etruria Series).
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