Notizie Recenti

Tonight AAR President Peter N. Miller will discuss his new book, The Weather on 9/9/01: Newspaper Weather Maps and History, with D. Graham Burnett, a writer and historian of science, at 192 Books in New York.

ART CITY Bologna, taking place February 6–16, celebrates the city’s ten historic gates with site-specific commissions. The program includes installations by Dread Scott (2024 Fellow) at Porta San Felice and Fatma Bucak (2024 Italian Fellow) at Porta Castiglione.

For History’s Persistent Voice, the Grammy Award–winning vocalist Julia Bullock will sing newly commissioned compositions by Tania León (1998 Resident), Carolyn Yarnell (2000 Fellow), and Pamela Z (2020 Fellow), among others, in a performance tonight at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Daniel Mendelsohn (2010 Affiliated Fellow), editor at large for the New York Review of Books, asks “Can We Really Learn from the Past? The Holocaust, History, and the Problem of Memory” in a lecture today at the University of South Carolina.

An exhibition of new work by Todd Gray at Lehmann Maupin in New York, titled While Angels Gaze, features photographs he took during his 2023 Rome Prize Fellowship. The show is on view through March 29.

Tonight Walter Hood (1997 Fellow, 2014 Resident) will discuss his new book documenting the International African American Museum’s landscape design with Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow) at Rizzoli Bookstore in New York.

Parker Sutton and Katie Jenkins (2023 Fellows) share their approaches to care that enhance landscape function, promote vegetative abundance, and model new aesthetic norms in a February 6 lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Today the University of Notre Dame’s Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opens Clarissa Tossin: All That You Touch, You Change. This solo show from our 2025 Affiliated Artist features moving image, sculpture, drawing, weaving, and more.

Rachel Jacoff (2011 Resident), a longtime professor of Italian and comparative literature at Wellesley College, died on January 24. A collaborative scholar, she coauthored and coedited The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s Comedy (1991), The Poets’ Dante (2001), and Dante and the Jewish Question (2004).

The London Review of Books has published a work titled “The Falling,” written by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham (2008 Resident).

Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Los Angeles Master Chorale will perform the world premiere of before and after nature by David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident). The concert takes place on February 1 at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall.

Gary Schneider (2014 Affiliated Fellow) has cocurated Eyes Open in the Dark, an exhibition of Peter Hujar’s later work, at Raven Row in London. The show, opening today, features photographs created “when his emergence from a debilitating depression in 1976 brought about a new expansiveness.”

In The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe, published by Princeton University Press, Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident) offer a “panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge.”

On January 30, Columbia University’s Italian Academy presents “The Art Historian’s Mark,” a roundtable highlighting our 2011 Resident who died in 2014. The event, featuring presentations by Andrea J. Bayer (2007 Affiliated Fellow) and Mary E. Frank (Trustee Emerita) among others, celebrates the publication of Titian’s Poetics and Paolo Veronese in English.

Princeton University Press has just published The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean, written by Jessica M. Marglin (2017 Fellow). The book chronicles “a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew” that “shines new light on the history of belonging.”

Tomorrow the Yale Philharmonia performs the world premiere of a composition by Joan Tower (2014 Resident), called Suite from Concerto for Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium.

Ash Fure (2018 Fellow), Steve Parker (2021 Fellow), and Paola Prestini (2022 Resident) are winners of the 2025 Creative Capital Awards in Visual Arts, Technology, Performing Arts, Film/Moving Image, and Literature.

Erica Moretti (2024 Fellow) and Iuri Moscardi converse with Tania Convertini, the author of L’ABC di Alberto Manzi, maestro degli italiani, at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York on January 23.

Among the winners of the Trellis Art Fund's inaugural Stepping Stone Grants are Suzanne Bocanegra (1991 Fellow), Sonya Clark (2017 Affiliated Fellow), and Sheila Pepe (2025 Fellow).

Lex Brown (2025 Fellow) performs as a librettist during a program titled Washington National Opera – American Opera Initiative , taking place at the Kaufman Music Center in New York.