Notizie Recenti

Mary Beard (2019 Resident) will establish a £80,000 fund to support two classics students from underrepresented groups at Cambridge University upon her retirement next year. The fund will cover the £10,000-a-year living costs of two undergraduates from a minority ethnic group and low-income background, and span the duration of a four-year degree.

The artist Tomaso De Luca (2017 Italian Fellow ) has won the MAXXI Bulgari Prize 2020. His work A Week’s Notice, on view in the accompanying exhibition, was selected by the international jury for its subtle poetics, maturity, and ethical, social, and political involvement.

On Tuesday, May 18, Temple University Rome will host the virtual opening of Mapping a Friendship, an online exhibition dedicated to the work of Joyce Kozloff (2000 Fellow) and Simonetta Moro (2000 Affiliated Fellow), who met during their stay at AAR.

Catherine Bonesho (2018 Fellow) has received a 2021–22 academic year fellowship from the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan related to the study of Diversity in Second Temple Judaism. During the fellowship, she will work on her second book project, “Kings, Queens, and Caesars: Gentile Rulers in Early Jewish Literature.”

On May 8 Filippo Perocco (2009 Italian Fellow) conducted the original version of Polifonica-Monodia-Ritimica (1951) by Luigi Nono at Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, where he is currently artist in residence. Tonight is the premiere of his commissioned composition Come canto, voce. And on May 18 he will perform a piece by Salvatore Sciarrino as an organist within a larger ensemble of musicians. These concerts are part of the larger program of a new festival devoted to contemporary music.

Germane Barnes, recipient of the 2021–22 Rome Prize in Architecture, has been named winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize, a grant from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design that supports investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded research.

Sigrid Nunez (2001 Fellow) has reviewed Whereabouts by 2013 Resident Jhumpa Lahiri for the New York Review of Books. The novel is the first Lahiri has written in Italian and had translated into English.

Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) will show his highly anticipated monumental Oracle sculpture and other works across the Rockefeller Center campus in New York. This public art exhibition, a partnership between Rockefeller Center and the Art Production Fund, runs May 5–June 29, 2021.

Corinna Gosmaro (2020 Italian Fellow) was among sixteen artists to win an eleven-month residency at the Fiminco Foundation in Romainville, France. Her residency begins this September.

The Antiquities Coalition’s Peter Herdrich spoke to AAR’s Andrew Heiskell Arts Director Elizabeth Rodini about the incredible journey of Gentile Bellini’s celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed II.

Syracuse University is hosting Exhibition Interrupted, a display of work designed by Anne Munly (1996 Fellow) on view through May 25. Munly, a professor in the School of Architecture, is retiring after more than thirty years of service.

Nathaniel Mackey (2017 Resident) talked to the New Yorker in advance of several new releases: three volumes of poetry collected under the name Double Trio; an album of words and sounds called Fugitive Equation (with the Creaking Breeze Ensemble); and a book of essays titled Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out.

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller (2011 Fellows) have won a 2021 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kripa and Mueller are the founders of AGENCY, a collaborative interdisciplinary practice based in El Paso, Texas.

David Karmon, a 2016 Fellow and the author of the forthcoming book Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance, talks to the University of California Press about taking the reins of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians as editor.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2021 fellowships to Nina C. Young (2016 Fellow) in music composition and James Siena (2013 Resident) in fine arts.

Kirstin Valdez Quade (2019 Fellow) talks to NPR’s Scott Simon about her debut novel, The Five Wounds, which she worked on during her year in Rome.

Yehudi Wyner, a 1956 Rome Prize Fellow in musical composition, was awarded a 2021 Gold Medal for Music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Chang-rae Lee (2008 Resident) was given the 2021 Award of Merit for the Novel, a $25,000 prize that honors an outstanding writer who represents excellence in the craft of the novel, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has given a 2021 Arts and Letters Award in Art to Suzanne Bocanegra (1991 Fellow) and a 2021 John Koch Award in Art to Jennifer Packer (2021 Fellow).

The Archaeological Institute of America has appointed Emma Blake, a 2013 Fellow in ancient studies, and Robert Schon as the next joint editors-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology.

Last week Richard Rezac (2007 Fellow) opened a solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. Titled Cast, the show is on view through May 8 and features a series of works Rezac made within the last year.

Michael Bierut (2016 Resident, current AAR Trustee) led a team at Pentagram that finished the two-year project of creating a new brand identity for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, which includes the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Judith H. Dobrzynski of the Wall Street Journal has reviewed Paul Manship: Ancient Made Modern, an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art that illuminates how this sculptor—a 1912 Rome Prize Fellow and the creator of AAR’s Cortile fountain—became a master of his craft.

Steve Parker (2021 Fellow) talks to Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim (2018 Resident) of the New York Times about his “war tuba,” a musical instrument that is a sculptural listening device instead of a sound maker. His inspirations are the early-twentieth-century military sound locators that detected enemy aircraft before the advent of radar.

The US General Services Administration has commissioned Ann Hamilton (2017 Resident) to create an Art in Architecture project for the new federal courthouse under construction in Des Moines, Iowa.

Tomorrow Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York, will present the opening of AutoRevisionism, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by 2012 Fellow Elliott Green. The show will continue until April 4.

Among the eighteen recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters music awards are David Sanford (2003 Fellow), Yotam Haber (2008 Fellow), Lei Liang (2012 Fellow), Annie Gosfield (2016 Resident), and William Dougherty (2021 Fellow).

Richard Powell (2018 Resident) of Duke University talked to Artnet News about the arc of his career and the evolution of scholarship into Black art history.

Jack Livings (2017 Fellow) worked on his first novel, The Blizzard Party, during his Rome Prize year. It’s about to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Roger Bond Martin (1964 Fellow), cofounder of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Landscape Architecture, has died. He was known in the Twin Cities for the renovation of the Grand Rounds parkway system and for leading the design of the Minnesota Zoo. In 1968, Martin established InterDesign with graphic designer Peter Seitz and systems analyst Stephen Kahne.