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Architect Antoine Predock Has Died

Antoine Predock, an architect and a 1985 Rome Prize Fellow “who became known for buildings that resonated with the landscape of the American Southwest,” has died.
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Rebecca Zorach Book Explores Temporary Monuments

The University of Chicago Press is publishing Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise by Rebecca Zorach (2021 Resident), which examines race, public monuments, and the occupation of land in the United States.
Monochromatic drawing of a man in a large concrete culvert

Manuele Cerutti Exhibition at Fondazione Maramotti

The Turin-based artist Manuele Cerutti (2022 Italian Fellow) is presenting new paintings and works on paper at a solo exhibition, titled QUEM GENUIT ADORAVIT, at Fondazione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia.
Digital illustration of two profiles of military personnel, each holding a paintbrush and palatte as they paint each other into being

Marla Stone to Lecture on Propaganda and Fascism

Marla Stone (1996 Fellow, former Mellon Humanities Professor) will lecture on “Acts of Self Representation: Nazi–Fascist Cultural Diplomacy” at the University of Oregon as part of the Propaganda: Fascism and Neo-Fascism Lecture Series.
Digital design of an inflatable structure comprising many colorful noodle-like tubes

Designing Platforms for Free Expression and Collaboration

Research into community involvement and cultural understanding in creating shared built environments, conducted by the designer and writer Leighton Beaman and the landscape architect Zaneta Hong (2019 Fellow), is the subject of The Civic Playground Project, an exhibition that opens today at Cornell University.
Detail of an old painting showing the face of a light skinned man wearing a white powdered wig

Music by John Harbison and David Sanford in Boston

The organist Paul Jacobs performs a John Harbison composition, What Do We Make of Bach?, in Boston on March 3 with the New England Philharmonic. The day’s program also features 2003 Fellow David Sanford’s piece, Thy Book of Toil.
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Ramie Targoff’s New Book “Shakespeare’s Sisters” Reviewed

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff (2013 Resident) is a “fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women of the 16th and early 17th centuries,” writes Tina Brown in the New York Times.
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“Whitfield Lovell: Passages” Opens in Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Art Museum presents Whitfield Lovell: Passages, a thought-provoking, comprehensive retrospective that presents over eighty works in drawing, assemblage, and installation by our 2019 Resident. The exhibition, opening on March 1, is on view through May 26.
Color photo of an artist studio with two large metal sculptures shaped like many pointed stars

Frank Stella Installation in Jacksonville, Florida

Frank Stella (1983 Resident) constructs a site-specific installation, titled Project Atrium: Frank Stella, that opens on February 29 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, in Florida.
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Michael Bierut to Reveal Pentagram Secrets

In “Pentagram Partners Tell All,” Michael Bierut (2016 Resident) joins his colleagues to unveil the mystique surrounding the storied design firm. This discussion, to be streamed live on February 28, is sponsored by AIGA NY.
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Chris Reed Delivers the Dean’s Lecture at the University of Buffalo

Chris Reed (2017 Resident), founding director of STOSS Landscape Urbanism, will give the inaugural Dean’s Lecture at the University of Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning on February 28. Attend in person or watch on Zoom.
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Lyle Ashton Harris and Clifford Prince King in Conversation

On February 27, Lyle Ashton Harris (2001 Fellow) talks to Clifford Prince King at Cooper Union. This Public Art Fund conversation focuses on King’s recent project of photographs on bus shelters and newsstands across New York, Chicago, and Boston.
Drawing collage with one large hand extended over many palm prints

Design Writer Stanley Abercrombie Exhibits His Art

A retrospective exhibition surveying the artistic work of the design writer and editor Stanley Abercrombie (1983 Fellow) opens on February 25 at the Point Richmond Gallery, in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Elle Pérez Talks to Flash Art

Elle Pérez talks to Ben Broome of Flash Art, describing their confluence of art, music, and teaching as part of a larger form: acts of communication. Pérez's work pursues “achieving a photographic description of the ephemeral condition of living.”
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Kevin Jerome Everson Screens His Films in Washington, DC

The filmmakers Kevin Jerome Everson (2002 Fellow) and Claudrena N. Harold talk to Maya Cade, curator of Black Film Archive, after a February 24 screening of their joint work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. A day later, Everson presents and discusses his recent solo films.
Photography and picture frames are assembled on top of and beside each other to create a fairly flat sculpture. A tall wooden rectangular frame is affixed to the left of a square wooden frame. Inside the rectangular frame is an oval-shaped photograph of a dried palm with a Black woman in profile superimposed on another oval-shaped photograph, which sits on top of a photograph looking up at an ornate castle. Inside the square frame, another oval-shaped photograph of the bark of a palm tree is layered on top

Todd Gray Reframes Reality

A solo show of photo assemblages by Todd Gray (2023 Fellow), titled Reality Reframed, opens tomorrow at the 8th Floor in New York. A conversation between the artist and curator Kalia Brooks takes place on February 24.
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Zoom Conversation on John Rhoden and Arts Criticism

A Zoom conversation hosted by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, taking place on February 21, explores how arts criticism and press coverage impacted the career of John Rhoden (1954 Fellow), the first Black visual artist to win the Rome Prize.
Color photograph of a sculpture, consisting of a wooden baby high chair, red bricks, and pink, purple, and white goo, in a gallery

Robyn Schiff Reflects on a Single Artwork by Ester Partegàs

Writer Robyn Schiff (2023 Fellow) sees the “common drudgery of a broken plastic laundry basket and a monumental ruin with the powerful iconic windows of the Roman Colosseum” in Line (laundry baskets), a sculpture by Ester Partegàs (2023 Fellow), in this Los Angeles Review of Books piece.
Black and white photograph of Vatican City walls, with two security camera mounted on the top

Catherine Opie Brings the Vatican to New York

Images that Catherine Opie took during her 2021 Residency make their first stateside appearance at Lehmann Maupin in New York. The photographs, presented as Walls, Windows and Blood, are placed on hand-crafted, Italian-marble pedestals designed by Katy Barkan (2021 Fellow). The exhibition is on view through March 9.
Color photograph of three women in siren costumes singing in front of a piano

Kate Soper’s “Here Be Sirens” at the New School

On February 16 and 17, Mannes Opera will present 2024 Fellow Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens at the New School in New York. The composition, which presents the daily life of three sirens who kill time on their island as they wait for doomed sailors, is written for three singers and a piano.