Notizie Recenti

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Netflix Series Based on Anthony Doerr Novel

Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie joined the cast for a Netflix adaption of Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. A Resident at AAR in 2019, Doerr memorialized his 2004–5 Fellowship year in Four Seasons in Rome.
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New Opera from Ash Fure

The International Contemporary Ensemble will perform The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects, a collaboration between Ash Fure (2018 Fellow) and her brother Adam Fure, at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts. Performances take place January 13–16.
Detail of a painting by Philip Guston depicting four men and a white horse working outdoors in a snowy forest; the men are shown conducting various tasks associated with the loggin industry

Murals by Philip Guston and Musa McKim

A pair of long-forgotten, recently restored WPA murals by Philip Guston (1949 Fellow, 1971 Resident) and Musa McKim are on view at the Currier Museum of Art through January 30. Painted in 1941, the two paintings hung for many years in a federal forestry building in Laconia, New Hampshire.
Digital scan of a a French letter from an unidentified author to city consuls dated Dec. 16, 1638, showing two pages with writing and fold marks

Jana Dambrogio Explains Letterlocking

Jana Dambrogio (2008 Fellow) is at the forefront of new discoveries into “letterlocking,” an elaborate technique of folding and sewing royal correspondence to make written documents more secure.
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Tom Bissell Discusses “Creative Types”

“I hate stories about writers,” Tom Bissell (2007 Fellow) told the Los Angeles Times about Creative Types, his new collection of short stories—written from the perspective of a writer. The book is “a way to address my weird anxieties about my own career, a way to lighten the psychic burden by poking fun at myself.”
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First Novel from Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso (2008 Fellow) talked to Publishers Weekly about her forthcoming first novel, Very Cold People, which explores “whiteness, class differences, and intergenerational trauma that were prevalent in the 400-year-old town she grew up in outside of Boston.”
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Diana Garvin’s “Feeding Fascism”

The University of Toronto Press will publish Feeding Fascism by 2018 Fellow Diana Garvin in February. The book explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labor.
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Michael Hersch Opera Premiere

Earlier this fall Michael Hersch (2001 Fellow) premiered a new opera, Poppaea, in Basel and Vienna that explores the legacy of Nero’s second wife. Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (2018 Fellow) contributed an essay giving the story a greater complexity.
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Akiho and Cerrone Compositions Make Best-Of List

The New York Times has named “Pillar III” by 2015 Fellow Andy Akiho (from Seven Pillars) and “I Will Learn How to Love a Person and Then I Will Teach You and Then We Will Know” by 2016 Fellow Christopher Cerrone (from The Arching Path) as two of the best classical-music tracks for 2021.
Far Afield - Giovanna Silva

Giovanna Silva Exhibition in New York

Giovanna Silva (2020 Italian Fellow) has been photographing not only the contents of Italian archives and collections, but also their locations and methods of archiving. A solo exhibition of her investigation, titled Archivi, Synthesis, is on view at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York through January 8.
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Kirstin Valdez Quade Wins First Novel Prize

Kirstin Valdez Quade (2019 Fellow) won the 2021 First Novel Prize for The Five Wounds, a book that she wrote during her time in Rome. The award, awarded by the Center for Fiction and presented in a ceremony emceed by Fran Lebowitz, comes with a $15,000 prize.
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Mary Reid Kelley at the Fabric Workshop

Mary Reid Kelley (2012 Fellow) and Patrick Kelley collaborated with artists and studio assistants at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia during a two-year residency to produce an installation of video and sculpture centered on two works, Blood Moon and I’m Jackson Pollock. The exhibition is on view through February 20, 2022.
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Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory

The Shape of Things is a major presentation of new and historical work by 2006 Fellow Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory, on view through December 31. Robin Pogrebin surveys the exhibition and the artist’s career in a comprehensive New York Times profile.
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New Essays from Padgett Powell

Indigo: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things in Between is a new collection of essays by Southern writer and 1988 Fellow Padgett Powell. The book covers family and food, places and painters, and authors and other animals.
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“The Grand Tourist” Podcast

As this week’s guests on The Grant Tourist podcast with Dan Rubinstein, AAR President Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow) and artist Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) discuss the importance of collaboration, the decline of empires, and the origins of the Academy. Listen now on Apple Podcast or Spotify.
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Glenn Ligon Exhibition and Book

A solo exhibition of work by 2020 Resident Glenn Ligon at Hauser & Wirth in New York is accompanied by a new publication documenting his studio and process.

 
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Sanford Biggers Wins Heinz Award

Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) has won a 2021 Heinz Award for the Arts from the Heinz Family Foundation. The program celebrates twenty-six years of honoring the outstanding contributions of those who are changing our world for the better.
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Helen O’Leary Exhibition in San Francisco

Helen O’Leary (2019 Fellow) is having a solo exhibition, titled Writing the Unwritable Novel, at Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, on view through December 23.
Detail of the cover of the Cammy Brothers book "Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome" showing a drawing of ancient Roman ruins through the open arches of a building

New Book from Cammy Brothers

Princeton University Press will soon publish Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome by Cammy Brothers (1997 Fellow). The book is an illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient Rome.
Detail of a neoclassical painting on the cover of Allison Emmerson's book "Life and Death in a Roman Suburb" depicting seated and standing people in togas conversing near or on a semicircular stone bench; in the foreground a man sits on a stone curb holding an umbrella or flag on his lap

AIA Awards for Allison Emmerson and Elizabeth Fentress

Among the recipients of the 2022 Archaeological Institute of America Awards are 2019 Fellow Allison L. C. Emmerson, who won the James R. Wiseman Book Award for Life and Death in the Roman Suburb, and AAR Advisor Elizabeth B. Fentress, who was honored with the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.