Notizie Recenti

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.

Carmine Emanuele Cella, a 2016 Italian Fellow, has joined the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, as assistant professor in music and technology. He will begin researching and teaching in spring 2019.

The Graham Foundation in Chicago is hosting a book launch for Richard Rezac: Address on Thursday, July 26, 2018.

Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York will open a summer group exhibition featuring the work of two Fellows, Terry Adkins (2010) and Richard Rezac (2007), on July 12, 2018.

The photographer Susan Meiselas discusses her five-decade career in a recent interview in the New York Times. Meiselas, who is president of the Magnum Foundation, was a 2017 Resident at the Academy.

Catherine E. Bonesho, the 2018 Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies who just finished her PhD in classical and ancient Near Eastern studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has joined the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

An exhibition by the artist Nico Vascellari, a 2008 Italian Fellow, opens tomorrow at MAXXI in Rome.

Corinna de Fonseca-Wollheim (2018 Resident) explores the “uncompromising lucidity” of death in the music of Michael Hersch (2001 Fellow), whose composition I hope we get a chance to visit soon will premiere at the Ojai Music Festival.

The Fellows’ spring trip to Sardinia inspired Rosetta S. Elkin, 2018 Rome Prize winner in landscape architecture, to delve into the implications of “plant blindness” on our understanding of everything from landscape to climate change in an article for Frank News.

Keith Krumwiede, a 2018 Rome Prize Fellow, was just named dean of architecture at the California College of the Arts. He begins the new position in August.

Rashwan Abdelbaki, a 2017 Affiliated Fellow, has work in (Dis)Figured, a three-person exhibition at Montoro12 Contemporary Art in Rome, on view until May 15.

The Architectural League has recognized the work of Bryony Roberts, a 2016 Rome Prize Fellow in historic preservation and conservation, with a 2018 League Prize.

Metalscapes, a solo exhibition of work by Mary Gillis, a 2016 Visiting Artist, opens tomorrow, May 4, at K. Oss Contemporary Art in Detroit.