Notizie Recenti

Tonight the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, New York, is opening Found and Imagined, an exhibition of collages by Janice Stanton, a Visiting Artist at AAR in November 2021. The work is on view through June 25.

Banyan trees at entrances to villages in Guangdong, where many Chinese immigrants to Los Angeles originated, inspired a memorial for victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre, to be designed by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong (2019 Fellow) and his spouse, the writer Judy Chung.

Roma, a Portrait is an exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni highlighting the cultural contributions of foreign academies in the city. The festival (through July 30) presents archival material from these institutions—including historical images from AAR’s Photographic Archive—as well as work by contemporary artists.

The artist Yto Barrada (2018 Resident) talks about a community research center based around a dye garden, which she calls The Mothership, that recently opened in Tangier.

Michael McClure (2009 Fellow), a University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor, will lead Kansas State University’s College of Architecture, Planning, and Design as dean. He begins his new position on July 1.

The architectural practice of 2017 Fellow Robert Hutchison thrives on limitations, whether “budgetary, programmatical, or spatial,” he says. Read about his inventive solutions for recently designed and built homes in Seattle, Mexico, and Argentina in the Architect’s Newspaper.

As part of her 2022 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, Pamela Z (2020 Fellow) will give a public concert and lecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking place April 19 and 20, 2023.

Ellen Pearlstein has published her research as a 2022 Fellow in the journal Museum Management and Curatorship. Her coauthored article focuses on conservation and curatorial practices for seven Yup’ik masks from western Alaska found in the Vatican Museums.

“These works offer few easy pleasures but many brain-tickling interpretive challenges,” writes Toby Kamp in his Brooklyn Rail review of 2017 Fellow Michael Queenland’s exhibition at Maureen Paley in London, on view through April 23.

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson (1998 Fellow) will join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design as a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture.

In a fantastic New York Times profile of Arthur Simms (2003 Fellow), the writer Yinka Elujoba states that the artist’s experiments with light and shadow were inspired in part by the Caravaggio paintings he saw during his Rome Prize Fellowship.

Curator Jessica Powers turned her research as a 2018 Affiliated Fellow into Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii, on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art through May 21. The richly illustrated catalogue has essays from Powers, Bettina Bergmann (1982 Fellow), Verity Platt, and more.

Marla Stone (1996 Fellow), our Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2022 Resident), talked to NPR about why Italy has kept its Fascist monuments.

Elizabeth G. Elmi, our current Rome Prize Fellow in Renaissance and early modern studies, will begin a new job upon her return  as assistant professor in musicology at Williams College.

Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident) wrote a new book with Maren Elizabeth Schwab. The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe is a panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge.

The Academy is deeply saddened by the loss of the graphic designer and teacher Carin Goldberg (2015 Fellow). Her friendship and influence was widespread, as attested by the remembrances of her friends and colleagues, which Print Magazine has kindly gathered.

Jack Massey (1961 Fellow, 1979 Resident), an artist and longtime Rhode Island School of Design professor, has died at the age of 97. In the decade before his three-year Rome Prize Fellowship, Massey fought in the Battle of the Bulge under General Patton toward the end of WWII.

In the New York Times, Dana Spiotta (2009 Fellow) assesses the continuing relevance of White Noise by Don DeLillo (2018 Resident), a novel from 1985 exploring death, the fear of death, and the modern condition.

Lars Lerup, a 2010 Rome Prize Fellow in architecture, offers personal reflections through his work in a new book, The Life and Death of Objects: Autobiography of a Design Project.

Composer and engineer Tina Tallon (2022 Fellow) discusses algorithmic justice—how biases embedded in technology and artificial intelligence can be recognized and challenged—with the University of Florida’s WUFT.

Lamia Balafrej, our current Rome Prize Fellow in medieval studies, offers a fresh perspective on slavery and automation by looking at images in Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari’s Arabic compendium of the mechanical arts (ca. 1200) in this open-access article.

Philip Pearlstein, a painter of “hard realism” and a Resident at the American Academy in Rome in 1982, has died. He was 98 years old.

Thomas J. Campanella, a 2011 Rome Prize Fellow in design, contributes an op-ed in the New York Times on how a rapid decline of ash trees in North America has affected basket makers.

In his new book Uncommon Wrath, Josiah Osgood (2002 Fellow) chronicles how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic.

“Colonial cities are too often thought to be the products of the singular visions and needs of the colonial regimes that founded them,” writes 2023 Rome Prize winner Preeti Chopra for the Wisconsin State Journal. “My work is a corrective to that distortion.”

A new book of poems by Matt Donovan (2012 Fellow), titled The Dug-Up Gun Museum and published by BOA Editions, explores America’s fascination with guns.

Work produced by Mary Ellen Carroll (2022 Fellow) during her time in Rome, gathered under the title THEIR TABLE IS TOO LONG (IL LORO TAVOLO È TROPPO LUNGO), is on view at Galerie Hubert Winter in Vienna through December 10.

Barbara Chase-Riboud talks to the New York Times Style Magazine in advance of two retrospective exhibitions, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in Saint Louis and the Serpentine Galleries in London.

Eleanor Esser Gorski, a 2003 Rome Prize Fellow in historic preservation and conservation, has been appointed the new chief executive of the Chicago Architecture Center.

Adele Chatfield-Taylor, the Academy’s former president and a 1984 Rome Prize Fellow, will receive the Albert Simons Medal of Excellence from the College of Charleston at a ceremony on October 27. The award recognizes individuals who have excelled in civic design, architectural design, historic preservation, and urban planning.