Notizie Recenti

Gresham College has appointed Melissa Lane (2018 Resident), Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, as the fiftieth professor of rhetoric. Lane will deliver a lecture series titled “The Political Imagination: Ancient Greek Ideas” during the 2023–24 academic year.

Six major works by Shimon Attie (2002 Fellow)—chronicling the artist’s ongoing exploration of migration, displacement, and the search for home—will be shown in The View from Below at Stony Brook University. The Zuccaire Gallery exhibition opens July 20.

The University of Notre Dame has appointed Margaret Meserve (2007 Fellow), the Glynn Family Collegiate Professor of History and codirector of the Glynn Family Honors Program at her school, to become vice president and associate provost for academic space and support, starting July 1.

Carrier Records will soon release between systems and grounds - the overshot sessions, a new vinyl record and digital album from the composer Paula Matthusen (2015 Fellow) and the visual artist Olivia Valentine. The works are based on a their slowly evolving collaboration, which began in Rome.

Four Academy alumni are participating in the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial: Kiel Moe (2010 Fellow); Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, known as Dream The Combine (2023 Fellows); and Tschabalala Self (2014 Affiliated Fellow).

Erin Gee, professor of composition at Brandeis University and a 2008 Rome Prize Fellow, was honored with the twenty-ninth Annual Herb Alpert Award in music, along with the bassist Linda May Han Oh.

Aaron Hamburger (2006 Fellow) spoke to National Public Radio about his recently published novel, Hotel Cuba, which explores the immigrant experience. Primarily set in Prohibition-era Havana, the book is based on the real-life story of his grandparents.

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.