Notizie Recenti

Rutgers University is presenting a live Zoom concert of works for solo voice and electronics by 2020 Fellow Pamela Z, followed by a moderated discussion, on Wednesday, November 18.

Skira has published Doug Argue: Letters to the Future, a monograph edited by Claude Peck and Paola Gribaudo that offers 170 reproductions of work by this 1998 Rome Prize Fellow.

This month the University of Chicago Press will publish The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps by Jessica Maier, a 2005 Fellow in Renaissance and early modern studies.

An installation by John Schlesinger (2003 Fellow) opens today at Philadelphia’s Cherry Street Pier. The work, titled After the Fall, continues the artist’s exploration of installation in challenging spaces through photography, sculpture, found or recycled materials, and neon.

“When I realized that rural areas were largely ignored in academic urban design and planning programs,” writes Dewey Thorbeck (1964 Fellow) in Architect, “I founded the Center for Rural Design [at the University of Minnesota] to establish a design discipline to focus on future rural land uses.”

An installation by Abigail DeVille (2018 Fellow) titled Light of Freedom at Madison Square Park in New York evokes, in her own words, “a long line of freedom fighters who have been protesting to exist in this nation from the very beginning.”

Theaster Gates, 2020 Resident and an honoree at AAR’s 2020 Virtual Benefit, talks to the Guardian about the work behind his first ever New York show, Black Vessel, and why white supremacy still threatens vital cultural institutions

Christopher Celenza, 1994 Fellow and AAR Director from 2010 to 2014, has been named James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

A new book by Susan Meiselas (2017 Resident), titled Tar Beach, charts a photographic history and tradition unique to New York’s Little Italy.

The opening reception for Transatlantico at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey, is October 18. The exhibition features 120 artworks from Palazzo Monti’s extensive alumni network, which includes our 2018 Italian Fellow Alessandro Di Pietro.

Ismail Muhammad profiles Garrett Bradley, a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow whose new documentary, Time, stubbornly resists all the easy ways of thinking about incarceration in America.

Allunati, a solo exhibition of work by Rä di Martino (2018 Italian Fellow), opens at the gallery Monica de Cardenas in Milan on October 15, on view through November 28.

The Son of Good Fortune, a new novel by Lysley Tenorio (2016 Fellow), has won the 2020 Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. Tenorio worked on the book during his Rome residency.

Katie Larson, a 2016 Rome Prize Fellow in modern Italian studies and assistant professor of art history at Baylor University, has just published her article “Alberto Burri and the Image of the Body in Post-Fascist Italy: Reconsidering the ‘Wound’ Motif” in the Fall 2020 issue of Art Journal.

The artist Varujan Boghosian, a 1967 Resident and a member of the AAR Board of Trustees from 1974 to 1976, has died. He was 94 years old.

This fall Namsal Siedlecki (2016 Italian Fellow) is having a solo exhibition of recent work, titled Mvaḥ Chā, at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome.

Our Rome Sustainable Food Project sous chef Sara Levi is featured in a New York Times multimedia spread on the Kitchen Farming Project involving chef-planted vegetable gardens from Japan to Ghana to Brooklyn to Rome.

The New Yorker talks to the playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar (2018 Resident) about his latest work, Homeland Elegies, which explores the origins of Donald Trump’s toxicity, the tensions of Muslim identity, and the splintering of a family and a country.

Harlem artist Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) talks to WWD about Codeswitch, his upcoming exhibition of quilted works at the Bronx Museum, and Soft Truths, a show of his marble chimera sculptures at Marianne Boesky Gallery that were inspired by his Rome Prize year.

The North Carolina painter Beverly McIver (2018 Fellow) was asked to participate in public-art project led by People for the American Way, and it sparked a series of directly political paintings.