Notizie Recenti

Dietrich Neumann (2014 Resident) has won the 2025 PROSE Award in architecture and urban planning from the Association of American Publishers for his book Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time, published by Yale University Press.

A Hyperallergic review of Paint Me a Road Out of Here explores a documentary by Catherine Gund (2025 Resident) on Faith Ringgold’s 1972 Rikers Island mural, tracing its creation, displacement, and restoration as a powerful symbol of resilience and hope.

On March 10 and 11, Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) and others will read from the French translation of her Après Sappho at La Maison de la Poésie in Paris. The event highlights the work’s choral storytelling and feminist legacy.

David Nirenberg (2021 Resident) will deliver the Clark Horowitz Annual Lecture in Religion at Pomona College in California on March 10, speaking on “History as a Resource in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”

Jana Dambrogio (2008 Fellow) and Daniel Starza Smith’s new book from MIT Press, Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter, explores the art of securing messages through intricate folds and seals, revealing a rich history of document security before modern envelopes.

John Delury (2024 Fellow) has won a 2025 Melvin MS Goo Writing Fellowship, which supports individual Chinese or American journalists, authors, or writers for projects that strengthen understanding between these two countries.

A Composer Portraits concert for Miya Masaoka (2023 Fellow) at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre will feature the world premiere of her new work, Into the Landscape of the Shaking Inner Chôra.

Wangechi Mutu (2019 Resident) will lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago on March 6 in conjunction with an exhibition, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, that includes her work.

Tomorrow Anna Deavere Smith (2016 Resident) will talk about her life and career in theater and film with Kimberly R. Moffitt in the Linehan Concert Hall at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has elected new members: Derek Bermel (2002 Fellow) in music; Chang-rae Lee (2008 Resident) and Daniel Mendelsohn (2010 Affiliated Fellow, 2017 Resident) in literature; and Fred Wilson (2020 Resident) in art.

For a PhotoVogue Festival 2025 presentation at BASE Milano on March 6, the photographer Richard Mosse (2025 Fellow) will address how resource extraction and ecology wars figure in his artistic practice.

Today Jamel Brinkley (2022 Fellow) will read from his work at Oregon State University’s Corvallis Museum, as part of the school’s Visiting Writers Series.

According to a Wall Street Journal reviewer, Josiah Osgood (2002 Fellow) organized much of his new book, Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome, “not as a biography but, ingeniously, as a series of criminal trials that Cicero took part in.”

On February 27, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi (2019 Residents) will converse with Justin Davidson about their new monograph, Drifting Symmetries: Projects, Provocations, ad Other Enduring Models, at Rizzoli Bookstore in New York.

Princeton University Press has published The Conqueror’s Gift: Roman Ethnography and the End of Antiquity by Michael Maas (1981 Fellow). His book “shows how the Romans’ ethnographic thought evolved as they attended to the business of ruling an empire on three continents.”

Today Michael Rakowitz (2023 Resident) will speak at Amherst College in conjunction with his Mead Art Museum exhibition, Open Admissions: Michael Rakowitz and Early Amherst College Collections.

The landscape architect, educator, and author M. Paul Friedberg (1983 Resident) died on February 15, 2025. He was 93 years old.

Nicholas de Monchaux (2014 Fellow) and John Ochsendorf (2008 Fellow) participate in Record on the Road Boston, a gathering to discuss “Sustainability in Practice,” on February 19. The event is organized by Architectural Record and held at the MIT Media Lab.

Tonight Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) joins a panel of speakers at Villa Medici in Rome for a discussion on the Museum of Transgender History and Art (MOTHA).

Lynn Meskell (2015 Resident) and Benjamin Isakhan address priorities of reconstruction in “Heritage and Healing: A Decade On from the Destruction of the Mosul Museum,” published by Australian Outlook.