Notizie Recenti

Color photograph of the head and torso of Billie Tsien, wearing a black top and standing in front of an abstract tapestry in red, blue, and black

Billie Tsien to Speak at the University of Hawai‘i

On February 15, the architect Billie Tsien (2000 Resident) is speaking at the University of Hawai‘i in Mānoa as part of the School of Architecture’s Get Lectured series.
Color photo of an abstract sculpture resting on a white plinth

Alessandro Di Pietro Is “Ghostwriting Paul Thek”

A solo exhibition by 2018 Italian Fellow Alessandro Di Pietro, titled Ghostwriting Paul Thek: Time Capsules and Reliquaries, opens tomorrow at Fondazione Nicola del Roscio in Rome. The show is curated by former Arts Director Peter Benson Miller and and Cornelia Mattiacci.
Side by side black and white photos of the head and torso of a light skinned woman with dark hair, and the cover of her book

Erica Moretti’s Book Gets Honorable Mention for Laura Shannon Prize

The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights by Erica Moretti (2024 Fellow) received an honorable mention in the humanities for the Laura Shannon Prize, administered by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Color photograph of the head of a light skinned woman with brown hair and glasses, standing on an Italian rooftop or balcony, with the sun setting behind her

New Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell: Lillian Datchev

Lillian Datchev (2022 Fellow) has been named a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. During her fellowship she will work on her book project, The Origins of Archaeology, which reveals how late-medieval Italian merchant culture gave rise to early modern antiquarian scholarship.
Color photograph of a table with artist's prints, with a woman artist in the background inspecting them

Joyce Kozloff Survey at Wisconsin’s Kohler Arts Center

How We Know What We Know showcases twenty years of art making by 2000 Rome Prize Fellow Joyce Kozloff, beginning with her Arts/Industry residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. The exhibition is on view through June 30.
A late-middle-aged man with white skin

Architectural Historian Cecil L. Striker Has Died

Cecil L. Striker (1971 Resident), an architectural historian and archaeologist, has died at age 91. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1968 to 2001, Striker led a team that excavated and restored Kalenderhane Mosque in Istanbul, revealing its history as a Roman bath, medieval church, and finally a mosque.
Color photograph of a wall-hanging sculpture made from stove pans, gold necklaces, and more

David Hammons Exhibition at Binghamton University

The art historian Tom McDonough has organized David Hammons: Street Specific for the Binghamton University Art Museum, presenting work by our 1990 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts.
Color photo of two male and one female dancers on a darkened stage

Molissa Fenley Performances in Brooklyn

The choreographer Molissa Fenley (2008 Fellow) is staging new and recent performances, collected under the title From the Light, Between the Lamps, with her company at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn.
Detail of a book cover with the title partially visible; the words are Power Image & Memory

Peter J. Holliday on Power, Image, and Memory

A new book from Peter J. Holliday (1995 Fellow), titled Power, Image, and Memory: Historical Subjects in Art, will be published today by Oxford University Press.
Drawing of a humanlike figure's head with various flowers for hair; the person holds an iguana to its chest

“Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” in New Orleans

A major survey of work by our 2019 Resident, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, opens on January 31 at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition covers her art practice from the mid-1990s to the present.
Color photograph of a black woman performing onstage; she raises her arm and opens her mouth as she uses a laptop with her other hand

Present Music to Premiere Pamela Z Composition

In Milwaukee, Present Music will premiere Raise by Pamela Z (2020 Fellow), written for four cellos and electronics. The in-person concert can also be watched via livestream.
Color photograph of an artwork consisting of an African mask on a pole against a red wall

Theaster Gates Explores Personal and Collective Memory

A large-scale sculpture by Theaster Gates (2020 Resident) that underscores the artist’s “personal connections with Black music and mental health” is included in a one-person show, Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me, at White Cube in New York.
Brenda Way teaching a class, ca. 1979

California Hall of Fame to Induct Brenda Way

Next month the dancer and choreographer Brenda Way will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame. Way, a 2009 Resident at the Academy, is the founder and artistic director of the San Francisco–based Oberlin Dance Collective, better known as ODC.
Color reproduction of a painting of a building with a sign reading Lorraine Hotel

Landscape Architect Walter Hood Shows His Paintings in Alabama

The landscape architect Walter Hood (1997 Fellow) is showing his oil paintings and an installation in a solo exhibition, Arc of Life/Ark of Bones, at Auburn University’s June Collins Smith Museum of Art in Alabama.
Color photograph of puppeteers dressed in black operated a larger than life sized human shaped puppet

Basil Twist Stages “Book of Mountains and Seas” in Chicago

Book of Mountains and Seas, a work by Basil Twist (2019 Fellow) that involves twelve singers, two percussionists, and six puppeteers, will get its Midwestern premiere from January 26 to 28 at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.

Color photograph of a light skinned woman with red hair wearing a red sweater, sitting on a rooftop patio in Rome

Fatma Bucak Interviewed by Artribune

Fatma Bucak (2024 Italian Fellow) talks to Artribune about the historical, political, and environmental stories that inform her interdisciplinary work in sculpture, performance, photography, and video.
Color photograph of a white man sitting at a piano, looking at the camera

Sebastian Currier Premiere in Toronto

The 21C Music Festival in Toronto will premiere a work by Sebastian Currier (1994 Fellow), titled Ongoingness. The composer wrote the piece for harpist Bridget Kibbey, who will perform it with the Calidore String Quartet.
Color photograph of stone and cloth objects on a makeshift wood table, outdoors in front of a red painted fence

James Welling’s “Thought Objects”

James Welling, who will be the Academy’s Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer in Residence this May, explores digital processes in his latest solo exhibition, Thought Objects, at David Zwirner in New York.
Color photograph of several painted ceramic artworks made to look like ancient artifacts

Rhona Hoffman Gallery Presents Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz (2023 Resident) follows up The Monument, The Monster and The Maquette, his 2022 exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, with Listening Back to Fragments, on view through March 2.
Color photograph of a black man in an artist studio looking at his prints

Todd Gray in Conversation in Los Angeles

The artist Todd Gray (2023 Fellow) and the curator Ekow Eshun will meet at Vielmetter Los Angeles tomorrow to discuss the artist’s current exhibition of Rome Work at the gallery, as well as future projects.