Notizie Recenti

Patrick Tighe, a 2007 Fellow in architecture, is one of five recipients of Interior Design’s annual Hall of Fame Award for 2018. Tighe was selected by the magazine’s editor in chief Cindy Allen and a nominating committee of previous Hall of Fame members.

The American Academy in Rome mourns the loss of Bernardo Bertolucci, the legendary film director. Bertolucci was our McKim Medal Laureate in 2013.

Rainbow Room/The Year in Hate, a solo exhibition of new work by Rochelle Feinstein (2018 Fellow), is on view at Campoli Presti in London through November 11. For this exhibition, Feinstein combines two mirroring propositions—as indicated in her title—to explore the dysfunctional relationships between language, perception, and constructed meanings.

“Suzanne Bocanegra’s art is an antidote to the history-free, prepackaged world that threatens every day to overwhelm us,” writes Robert Sullivan in a New Yorker review of this 1991 Fellow’s exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. “Her work is also beautiful.”

The New York Times has reviewed Marnie, an opera based on Winston Graham’s novel with music composed by Nico Muhly (2018 Resident). “Mr. Muhly opted,” Anthony Tommasini writes, “to maintain mystery through whole stretches of the score, to suggest emotions rather than making everything explicit.”

The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image from November 7, 2018, to March 3, 2019. Over the span of the last four decades, Feinstein (2018 Fellow) has probed the relevance of the abstract painting tradition vis-à-vis a rapidly changing cultural environment.

New Focus Recordings has just released a new CD, Waterlines, from Christopher Trapani (2017 Fellow). Waterlines features five of Trapani’s chamber and ensemble works, with performances by some of New York’s finest musicians. The music is inspired in part by Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, the composer’s home town.

The New York Times previews The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock by David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident) and Liz Diller (1981 Affiliated Fellow), which premieres tonight on the High Line, an elevated park in New York.

The celebrated architect Robert Venturi (1956 Fellow, 1966 Resident, Trustee from 1969 to 1976), whose firm designed buildings at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and oversaw an addition to the National Gallery in London—among many other structures—has died at the age of 93. His books, among them Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) and Learning from Las Vegas (1972, written with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour), have been influential well beyond the discipline of architecture.

For Now, the second solo exhibition of work by Nicole Miller (2017 Fellow) at the Brookyn-based gallery Koenig & Clinton, will open on September 14, 2018. For Now triangulates Miller’s latest digital video with her first foray into the more analogue forms of sculpture and light-based installation.

Between September 14 and October 10, John Kelly (2007 Fellow) will present Down To You, a concert version of his tribute to the music of Joni Mitchell, at Joe’s Pub in New York.

The New York Philharmonic’s 2018 Opening Gala Concert on September 20 will feature the world premiere of Filament by the “arresting” and “moving” composer Ashley Fure (2018 Fellow).

A solo exhibition of wood and metal sculpture by Richard Rezac (2007 Fellow) will open at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum on Saturday, September 8. Organized by Solveig Øvstebø, Richard Rezac: Address will be on view though December 8, 2018.

Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem (2017 Fellows) have finished their fellowship of the US-Japan Creative Artists Program, sponsored by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the NEA. While in Japan, they explored the long tradition of Japanese “weather rooms”—which are in-between spaces adaptable to changing weather in Japan’s seven distinct climate zones.

The Beaux Arts architect Charles Follen McKim was born on this day in 1847. Among his buildings are the Morgan Library, the old Penn Station, Columbia University, and, of course, the American Academy in Rome. McKim stands here with his partners William Rutherford Mead (left) and Stanford White (right) in 1908.

Mary Margaret Jones of Hargreaves Associations (1998 Fellow, chair of the AAR Board of Trustees) and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofido + Renfro (1981 Affiliated Fellow) discuss their involvement in the stunning Zaryadye Park, Moscow’s first new green space in fifty years.

Thomas Hendrickson (2013 Fellow, 2014 Affiliated Fellow) has won the Jozef IJsewijn Prize for Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism. The prize is awarded every three years by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies for the best first book on a Neo-Latin topic.

The sculptor Martin Puryear, a 1998 Resident and a former member of the AAR Board of Trustees, will represent the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

The Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund has announced two Affiliated Fellows for 2018–19: the poet Alexander Skidan and the visual artist Vladimir Logutov.

Richard Haag, the founder of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle who was an Academy Resident in 1998, died on May 9, 2019. He was 94 years old.