ctober is a splendid month at the Liguria Study Center. The breeze from the Mediterranean takes on a cooler note, and the throngs of beachgoers that crowd the Via Aurelia in the summer months have dissipated. The first group of Fellows began arriving a few weeks ago. We are expecting 54 Fellows this year, coming from such distant countries as Australia, Israel and Ukraine.

As I mentioned in the spring issue of BF News, the Foundation is putting together a special trip, Northern Italy: The Art and Culture of Genoa and Turin, which will take place from May 8 to 15, 2009. (Please note that trip dates have been modified.) Space is extremely limited, and reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Please click here for further information on the itinerary and pricing, and to make a reservation.

The next time you visit our website, you will notice that we have created a new page for news and events. Among other things, you will be able to view past issues of BF News here.

The Bogliasco Foundation was profiled in the June 8 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. A pdf of the article, "Academics in Paradise", can be viewed by clicking here.

You will soon be receiving the Bogliasco Foundation's annual appeal letter in the mail. We hope that you share our belief in the importance of the creative process and the transformative effect that takes place when an exchange of ideas across disciplines, languages and cultures is fostered. Please consider making a gift to the Foundation. It is your partnership and generosity that enable us to welcome artists and humanists from around the world to the Liguria Study Center each year.

Warm regards,

James S. Harrison
President

We welcome submissions from Fellows to BF News and would be delighted to include news of your accomplishments and activities in our next issue. Please email us at support@bfny.org.

Celebrating a Generous Donor, Choreographer Jerome Robbins

This year, Jerome Robbins was commemorated by both the New York City Ballet's spring season as well as in New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World (March 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008), an exhibit covering his life and work at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. These events marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of this great American choreographer.

Jerome Robbins is perhaps best known for his choreography on Broadway, including West Side Story, The King and I, The Pajama Game and On the Town, though he choreographed for classical ballet as well as musical theater with equal success. His talents were varied and broadly expressed, and his interests included art, literature, painting, sketching, photography, piano, writing, and he found the stimulus of collaboration both exciting and productive.

It is therefore fitting that the Jerome Robbins Foundation has given generous support to the Bogliasco Foundation in order to establish a Special Fellowship for American choreographers. Like Jerome Robbins, the Bogliasco Foundation values the humanities broadly and sees the importance of cross-disciplinary studies.

Established in 1958, the Jerome Robbins Foundation was founded to support dance, theater, and their associative arts. Due to their generous support, the Bogliasco Foundation has been able to offer the Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowship in Dance annually since 2004. This award is given to outstanding American choreographers and has thus far been awarded to Ivy Baldwin, Clare Byrne, Risa Jaroslow and Tiffany Mills.

http://jeromerobbins.org/

Congratulations to the 2008 Guggenheim Fellows: Robert Feintuch ('99) for painting; Jeffrey Schiff ('05) for sculpture; and Laura Elise Schwendinger ('02) for music composition. Jeffrey was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship based on a sculpture he began at the Liguria Study Center.

Several Fellows' poems were published this summer in The New Yorker, including "Beast Brutality" by Mary Jo Bang ('05), "A Frame" by J. D. McClatchy ('97), and "Isola Bella" by C.K. Stead ('07).

Congratulations to Mary Jo Bang ('05) whose book of poems, Elegy, won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award and was featured on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."

Carol Barton ('00) recently published The Pocket Paper Engineer, Volume 2: Platforms and Props: How to Make Pop-Ups Step-by-Step.

Lorna Bieber's ('02) art was on display as part of the exhibition The Elusive Surrounding in Baltimore, Maryland.

Yves Dana ('97) exhibited seven works at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan.

A recent group of Fellows, including Cathy Davidson ('08), made a trip to see Yves Dana's exhibit while in residence at the Study Center. Cathy Davidson blogged about the exhibit and her time at the Study Center: http://www.hastac.org/node/1380

Luce Delhove ('07) published an artist book Rêves-tu ce que je rêve?, with text by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, which contains prints she worked on during her Bogliasco Fellowship.

Pulitzer prize-winning musician David Del Tredici ('97) had a busy spring performing as part of the Bargemusic series and at Symphony Space in New York. In August, two pieces David composed, "Ballad in Lavender" (2004) and "S/M Ballade" (2006), were performed as part of "Maverick Concerts", America's oldest chamber music series, held in Woodstock, New York.

Sandro Del Rosario's ('05, '07) film Lo Sguardo Italiano, which Sandro worked on in Bogliasco, is documented on his blog http://losguardoitaliano.blogspot.com/

Alexander Hahn's ('97, '06) new-media interactive installation Luminous Point, which he completed while at the Study Center, was recently exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of Room for Thought: Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer.

Jennifer Haigh's ('07) third novel, The Condition, was completed in Bogliasco and was published in July. Next year, it will also be published in Italy.

Anne Hamilton ('98) is currently writing a book on the art of collaboration as well as working on a screenplay based on Wayne Karlin's novel, Marble Mountain.

Risa Jaroslow ('05) choreographed a new work, 311, which took place on and around the Municipal Building in New York City in July as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's "Sitelines" series.

Suji Kwock Kim ('07) was invited to read from her book, Notes from the Divided Country, at the 2008 Genoa Poetry Festival in June. She is currently working on a second book of poems, Disorient.

Phillis Levin ('00) recently published May Day, a new collection of poems.

Daniele Ligari's ('06) sculptures were exhibited in Osmosi: 10 anni di sculture in Camello, Italy.

Martyn Lyons ('04) led a workshop on "Ordinary Writings and Scribal Culture" this summer at the International Society for the Study of European Ideas conference in Helsinki.

James McBride ('96, '00) recently adapted his novel Miracle at St. Anna for the Spike Lee film of the same name which premiered in September. Set in Italy in 1944, it tells the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Since his residency, Mamuka Mikeladze ('01) has had solo exhibitions in England, France, Italy and the U.S.

While in residence in Bogliasco, Peggy O'Brien ('01) worked on Sudden Thaw, a collection of poems published in 2004 and Writing Lough Derg: from William Carleton to Seamus Heaney, published in 2006.

Brazilian multimedia composer Jocy de Oliveira ('04) debuted the Pocket Opera Solo in San Paolo, Brazil as part of the retrospective exhibit Imersão which included exhibitions, interactive installations, and performances.

Farhad Ostovani ('08) created the works-on-paper Ut Musica Pictura, inspired by Bach's Goldberg Variations, which were on display at the Morat-Institut in Freiburg.

A recipient of the 2007 European Poetry Prize from Muenster in Germany, Tomaz Salamun ('04) spent this spring semester as a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Richmond in Virginia, and published a book of poetry, Woods and Chalices.

Tatiana Sergeeva's ('05) book, Music of al-Andalus: the Emergence and Forming of the Occident-Arabian Classical Music, has recently been published.

Since his time in Bogliasco, Richard Spear ('03) has published a dozen articles and reviews, including five related directly to his Bogliasco project, "The Socio-Economic Status of Artists in 17th Century Italy."

Willard Spiegelman ('99) has two books forthcoming on which he worked while in Bogliasco: Imaginative Transcripts: Selected Literary Essays and Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness.

The eighth annual New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference in Genoa exhibited the installation "Mirror of the Moon" by Fellow Jeff Talman ('07).

Savina Tarsitano ('05) spoke in May at the Danish Cultural Institute in Brussels about her exhibition Soleil de Minuit, which consisted of pictures, photos, and installations inspired by the Inuit civilization of Greenland. She also had an installation at the Abbey of Ambronay in France, as well as an exhibit of photographs, Genova e il mare, at the Galleria Saturarte in Genoa.

George Tsontakis' ('97) award-winning "Violin Concerto No. 2" made its New York premiere in June performed by the Riverside Symphony, a review of which may be found here.

This spring, Karen Volkman ('06) published a book of poetry, Nomina, a review of which may be found here.

Andrew Waggoner ('08), recipient of the Roger Sessions Memorial Bogliasco Fellowship in Music, recently premiered The Approach for soprano and string quartet at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival.

A second edition of Richard Watson's ('98) book Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes came out in paperback, the first draft of which was written in Bogliasco.

The Golden Legend, a performance with puppets and costumes by Christopher Williams ('08), had its world premiere in New York City this spring.

We welcome submissions from Fellows to BF News and would be delighted to include news of your accomplishments and activities in our next (spring) issue. Please email us at support@bfny.org.

If, at any point, you wish to unsubscribe to BF News, please click here.

The Bogliasco Foundation 10 Rockefeller Plaza (16th Floor) New York, NY 10020   212-713-7628
 

©2008 The Bogliasco Foundation