Notizie Recenti

Today Yale University Press releases a new book, Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time, written by Dietrich Neumann (2014 Resident). The study offers “a new, critical look at Mies and complicates the established narrative about him.”

On September 24 Wabash College in Indiana presents Sandbox Percussion’s performance of the Grammy-nominated composition Seven Pillars by Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow).

Germane Barnes (2022 Fellow) combines research, architecture, and activism to connect identity and the built environment in Germane Barnes: Columnal Disorder at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tomorrow Patricia Cronin (2007 Fellow) will speak at “In Session: Perspectives on Art School in the 21st Century,” a day-long symposium addressing art education being held at the Art Students League of New York.

On September 22 Lyle Ashton Harris (2001 Fellow) will close his solo exhibition of photographs and installations, titled Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love, at the Queens Museum in New York.

On September 19 Zachary Fabri (2024 Fellow), an artist focused on lens-based media and public space, will give the first visiting artist lecture of the fall semester for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst’s Art Department.

The University of Colorado Art Museum in Boulder surveys nearly twenty years of art by William Villalongo (2022 Fellow). The work in William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations is “informed by research in the natural and social sciences, mythologies and folklore, popular culture imagery, and the history of art….”

The Miller Theatre at Columbia University honors Courtney Bryan (2020 Fellow) with a Composer Portrait concert tonight. Her music will be performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble and Quince Ensemble.

Tonight the Japan Society in New York begins a series of twelve sold-out performances of the award-winning Dogugaeshi, created by the puppeteer and artist Basil Twist (2019 Fellow), to be held from September 11 to 19.

The historian Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident) is one of four coeditors of Information: A Short History, published today by Princeton University Press. The book grapples with the enormous impact information has had on our everyday lives.

Today Reaktion Books releases Amāravatī: Art and Buddhism in Ancient India by Jaś Elsner (2024 Resident). The book offers insights into early Buddhist art in South Asia by examining the reliquary mounds at one of ancient India’s most remarkable monuments.

A solo exhibition of work by Marinella Senatore (2012 Italian Fellow), titled Together We Stand, ends its summer run at Kunsthaus Stade in Germany on Sunday, September 8.

Simon Verity, an English stone carver who created two works in the Academy’s Bass Garden—the Quasimodo Fountain and the sundial—has died at the age of 79. His work can also be seen at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and Canterbury Cathedral in England.

Mike Cloud (2024 Fellow) is showing the work he made during his Rome Prize Fellowship in a solo exhibition, titled Holistic Abstraction, that opens on September 5 at Thomas Erben Gallery in New York.

A solo exhibition for our 2010 Italian Fellow, titled Flavio Favelli: La Sicilia e alter figure and held at Real Albergo delle Povere and Museo regionale d’Arte moderna e Contemporanea di Palermo, closes on September 8.

This Friday Laurie Anderson (2006 Resident) releases a new album, Amelia, on Nonesuch. The recording—available on LP, CD, and digital—consists of twenty-two tracks about the pilot Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight.

Harold Meltzer (2005 Fellow), the creator of lively and highly esteemed musical compositions “that mixed accessibly melodic themes and rich ensemble textures with the sharp-edged angularity of modernism,” has died. A director of the ensemble Sequitur, Meltzer was 58 years old.

Rä di Martino (2018 Italian Fellow) opens a solo exhibition, titled Kant Can’t, on August 29. Held at Pinacoteca Provinciale di Potenza in Italy, the presentation of ceramic sculptures and a video created with 3D game software is curated by Lorenzo Benedetti.

Jennifer Greenhill (2023 Affiliated Fellow) publishes “Pressing Buttons: Kodak, Advertising Psychotechnics, and the Politics of Graphic Design, c. 1915” in the latest issue of Art History. Her essay examines Eastman Kodak’s advertising campaign, which began in 1912, that promoted studio photography.

The renowned classicist and award-winning author Mary Beard (2019 Resident) will be Kress-Beinecke Professor at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts for 2024–25 academic year.