Notizie Recenti

Historian Ingrid D. Rowland (1982 Fellow, 2000 Resident) considers Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture in an essay for the latest edition of the New York Review of Books.

Alexandra Kleeman (2021 Fellow) has won the Berlin Prize. She will work on her novel The Taxon Cycle at the American Academy in Berlin in fall 2025.

Opening today at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the exhibition William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations surveys twenty years of painting, sculpture, work on paper, and collage by our 2022 Fellow in visual arts.

Peter N. Miller, President and CEO of the American Academy in Rome, received the Cultural Diplomacy Award on May 7 from the Foreign Policy Association.

Following the restoration of her land art piece Field Rotation at Governors State University’s Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Mary Miss (1989 Resident) will be in conversation with curator Nathan Manilo at 21c Museum Hotel in Chicago on May 15.

Marsha Ginsberg (2020 Fellow) was nominated for a Tony Award in the category of Best Scenic Design for a Play for her work on English, written by Sanaz Toossi.

The University of Cincinnati turns to Stephanie Pilat (2007 Fellow) to lead its College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She will become dean on July 1.

The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies has appointed Dominique Kirchner Reill (2013 Fellow) as its next director, effective July 1, 2025. She also joins the University of Alberta as professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion.

An international symposium at Notre Dame Rome on May 12 will honor the eightieth birthday and retirement of Joseph Connors (1987 Resident), celebrating his influential scholarship, teaching, and leadership in Baroque architecture and early modern studies.

David Kertzer (2000 Resident, current Trustee) tells the New York Times that Pope Leo XIV’s name references Leo XIII, a transitional figure who defended workers’ rights while upholding tradition from 1878 to 1903. The choice may signal continuity with Pope Francis, Kertzer said, but with moderation.

Today Bunny Harvey (1976 Fellow) gives a artist’s talk in conjunction with Worlds within Worlds, her exhibition of abstract paintings taking place at Burlington City Arts in Vermont.

Triple Canopy and Nightboat Books present A Cartography in Progress, a reading and conversation on May 8 in New York, to celebrate Samiya Bashir’s new collection of poetry, I Hope This Helps. Joining Bashir will be Erica Hunt (2024 Fellow), Jaqueline Woodson, Terrance Hayes, and Derrais Carter.

Helen C. Evans (2002 Affiliated Fellow) is participating on a scholarly panel addressing “Guardians of Hellenism: The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople” today in New York. The event is sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Today Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) will deliver the second Virginia Woolf Chair Lecture, titled “Una società per futuri femministi queer,” at Università per Stranieri di Siena in Italy.

On May 7, musical composer Derek Bermel (2002 Fellow) and novelist Sandra Cisneros will meet at Northwestern University for a reading, discussion, and performance related to their collaborative opera, The House on Mango Street.

Boston College’s Excellence in Teaching Day, taking place on May 5, includes a keynote address, “Educating for American Democracy,” by Harvard University’s Danielle S. Allen (2020 Resident) discussing a broad range of issues.

Tonight on WTJU FM 91.1 in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Offbeat Roadhouse live concert series features Chasing Clouds by William Grosvenor Neil (1983 Fellow), performed by Linda Chatterton’s LYM Trio.

With her company, Molissa Fenley (2008 Fellow) will restage Bardo, her homage to Keith Haring from thirty-five years ago that was performed during the artist’s memorial service, at the New York City AIDS Memorial on May 4.

For his twenty-year survey, Urban Archaeology, Franc Palaia (1986 Fellow) will transform the Garner Arts Center in Garnerville, New York, into an archaeological site with his mixed-media artworks. The exhibition opens on May 3.

Fatma Bucak (2024 Italian Fellow) returns to Brown University today for an artist’s talk and performance of That Sound Again with composer Bahar Royaee and soprano Ross Hegele, sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies.