Senam Okudzeto (2016 Fellow) has won a Graham Foundation Exhibition Grant for the production of her project Geomancy, Modernity, and Memory: Unofficial and Unrecognized Historic Civic Centers in Ghana.
Bryony Roberts, a 2016 Rome Prize Fellow, presents a site-specific installation at the 2017 California-Pacific Triennial, which opens to the public this Saturday, May 6.
Nina Young (2016 Fellow) has been named Peabody Conservatory Visiting Composer at Johns Hopkins University, beginning in fall 2017.
AAR remembers a 1976 Fellow and a friend to the Academy, Diane Lewis, who passed away on May 2, 2017.
The novel The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (2014 Fellow) has been adapted into a film with the same name starring Ellen Burstyn.
A solo exhibition of work by Shimon Attie (2002 Fellow), titled Lost in Space (After Huck), will run from March 24 to June 25 at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Daniel Mendelsohn, a 2010 Affiliated Fellow, offers a stirring tribute to the New York Review of Books editor Bob Silvers, a former AAR Trustee.
The Academy remembers a pioneer in American archaeology, Anna Marguerite McCann Taggart, who died on February 12, 2017.
An eponymous exhibition by an AAR Trustee, Fred Wilson, opens tonight at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York.
The University of Virginia School of Architecture has selected Bradley Cantrell, a 2014 Fellow, as its new chair of landscape architecture.
Former AAR Director and 1994 Fellow Christopher Celenza has been named dean of Georgetown College.
Nari Ward (2013 Fellow) was awarded the top Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts. Ward’s work explores the creation of a public conversation (or an intimate dialogue) with the viewer—especially one that makes the field of contemporary art more inclusive.
Andrew Norman, the 2007 winner of the Samuel Barber Rome Prize, receives a rave review from the New York Times critic David Allen for his composition, Play.
The magazine Domus has featured the work of two current Rome Prize winners, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem. The article includes their exploration of Italy’s contemporary ruins.
Thompson Gallery at the Cambridge School of Weston is currently featuring an exhibition on the work of Jack Massey (1961 Fellow), titled Jack Massey—Light & Dark.
A new monograph by 2005 Fellow Allan Wexler, titled Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design, is now available through Lars Müller Publishers.
SO - IL founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu will present the inaugural Mark Robbins Lecture at the AIA New York Center for Architecture on January 19, 2017.
Chris Hawthorne (2016 Affiliated Fellow) has reviewed the Louis Kahn retrospective at the San Diego Museum of Art for the Los Angeles Times.
Andrew Norman, a 2007 Rome Prize Fellow in musical composition, has won the Grawemeyer Award for Music.
The Boston Symphony will premiere 2014 Fellow Eric Nathan’s composition “the space of a door” beginning November 8.
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