Notizie Recenti

Le Rouge et Le Noir, a solo exhibition of new work by 2019 Resident Whitfield Lovell, is on view at DC Moore Gallery in New York through December 18. The artist presents three series: The Reds, Winteriesse (which he began during his time in Rome), and Spell Suite.

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed David Nirenberg (2021 Resident), dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and professor of medieval history, as its tenth director and Leon Levy Professor, effective July 1, 2022.

Katherine Balch (2021 Fellow in musical composition) and Catie Newell (2014 Fellow in architecture) recently completed fellowships at Civitella Ranieri in Italy.

Artist Ramona Gibbs talks to Flyover Zone about her father, the sculptor Harrison Gibbs, who was a Rome Prize Fellow from 1936 to 1938.

The magazine Town & Country reports on AAR’s 2021 New York Gala honoring John Guare, Julie Mehretu, and Mary Schmidt Campbell, held on October 26.

“People don’t normally look at me walking down the street and go, ‘Oh, that’s definitely a potter,’” Roberto Lugo (2020 Fellow) told the New York Times in advance of his participation in ​​Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among his other recent exhibitions.

The Catholic University of America Press has just published Tales of a Minstrel of Reims in the Thirteenth Century, an anonymous medieval work that comes with an introduction by William Chester Jordan (2018 Resident) and notes by Randall Todd Pippenger (2022 Fellow).

Mary Ellen Carroll, our 2021–22 Rome Prize winner in design, is presenting on “The Ethical Imagination (EI®):” at a virtual event called “Artist as Innovator: Demo Day,” taking place October 22–24 and showcasing world-changing projects incubated through an 18-month Imaginator Start-up initiative.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation has awarded the inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize to Julie Bargmann (1990 Fellow). The biennial prize includes a $100,000 award and two years of public engagement activities focused on the laureate’s work and landscape architecture more broadly.

Next month New Amsterdam will release Before and After, a new album from NOW Ensemble, which is devoted to the work of Sean Friar (2012 Fellow), who first conceived the album during his time in Rome. Presale has started, and the first single “Rally” is available.

How did Europe’s oldest political institution come to grips with the disruptive new technology of print? Margaret Meserve (2007 Fellow) explores the question in her new book, Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome.

Hauser & Wirth in New York is presenting Philip Guston 1969–1979, an exhibition of breakthrough figurative paintings from this 1949 Rome Prize Fellow and 1971 Resident. The show, with works drawn from the final decade of his career, is on view through October 30.

A two-museum retrospective of work by Jasper Johns (1973–76 Trustee) has opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Brad Kessler, a 2009 Fellow in literature, talks to WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s podcast The Conversation about his newly published novel, North.

Black History Month Florence, led by AAR advisor Justin Randolph Thompson, has opened a new physical space to continue its work hosting programs, exhibitions, libraries and archives, and other forms of creative research.

Three New York institutions—Magazzino Italian Art, the Italian Cultural Institute, and NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò—are collaborating to present Viandante, a solo exhibition of work by 2016 Italian Fellow Namsal Siedlecki. The show, his first in the city, runs from October 29 to December 4.

Katie Larson (2016 Fellow) has been appointed the 2021–22 scholar in residence at Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York, where she will lead tours of the permanent collection and special exhibitions, organize the annual spring lecture series, and contribute to the museum’s curatorial and public programming.

David Adjaye (2016 Resident) and Theaster Gates (2020 Resident) are part of a four-person team that won a competition to redevelop Canning Dock in Liverpool, England. Their project, part of a ten-year plan to transform the city’s waterfront, aims to bring the history of the transatlantic slave trade into the public realm.

Igor Santos, our current Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow, has received the 2021 Busoni Composition Prize, presented every two to three years to young emerging composers.

Lauren Ginsberg (2018 Fellow), associate professor of classical studies in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University, has earned tenure at her school.