Far Afield

Last night Fredericks & Freiser in New York opened porTraits, a show of new paintings by David Humphrey (2009 Fellow), an artist known for his dynamic, introspective approach to depicting social relationships and individual psychology.

A concert by Cluster Ensemble at Casa dell’Architettura in Rome features a new composition, titled Peregrina Maraviglia, by Daria Scia (2025 Italian Fellow).

On December 12, Caroline Bruzelius (1986 Fellow, 1989 Resident) will share new information about the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in a lecture at the Sippican Historical Society in Marion, Massachusetts.

Systems of Logic/Logic of Systems: The Art and Mind of Agnes Denes is the title of a retrospective of work by our 1998 Fellow that opens on December 12 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

Today the New Yorker published a poem by Rosanna Warren (2001 Resident) called “Snow.”

Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow) will deliver the annual Wendy Evans Joseph Lecture on Art and Architecture on November 7 at Cooper Union in New York, followed by a conversation with Mabel O. Wilson (2022 Resident).

A colloquium on “Repairing Architecture Schools,” coorganized by Jorge Otero-Pailos (2022 Resident) and hosted by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation on December 7, features Mireille Roddier (2022 Fellow) and Mario Gooden (2024 Resident) as speakers.

Rosa Lowinger (2009 Fellow) is giving the Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies Lecture Series at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts on December 5. Her talk is titled “Art versus the Great Outdoors: Wrestling with the Meaning of Repair.”

Molissa Fenley (2008 Fellow) presents Going to the Sun, a new piece for nineteen dancers with music by Sakamoto Ryuichi Glacier, for the Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department. Performances are at Theresa Lang Theater in New York.

Rochelle Feinstein (2018 Fellow) showcases new work connecting canvas, color, and gesture with the personal and public conditions of our time in a solo exhibition called The Today Show, which opens on December 6 at the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession in Austria.

Emigration for leaders of the Bauhaus “was an experience of adaptation and success as well as loss and estrangement, at least for the big names,” writes Hal Foster (2023 Resident) in an assessment of Robin Schuldenfrei’s Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders 1930–60, published in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

Catherine Opie (2021 Resident) visits the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University on December 5 to talk about her collaboration with Ron Athey and the creation of her Trojan Whore series of photographs.

A December 5 roundtable on “Imagining the World of the Italian Renaissance” at New College of Florida, organized by Carrie Beneš (2009 Fellow) with Jessica Maier (2005 Fellow) speaking, considers the nature of maps and the history of European exploration.

On December 3 Franco Baldasso (2019 Fellow) and Ziad Dallal will speak with the filmmakers Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo at Bard College following a screening of their cinéma vérité documentary, It Will Be Chaos (2018).

Today Christopher Stark (2023 Fellow) releases a new album, The Language of Landscapes, on vinyl. The composer performed electronics, with the duo New Morse Code adding cello and percussion.

John Delury, the 2024 Tsao Family Rome Prize Fellow, commented on relations between the United States and China in a New York Times article on the recently concluded Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Maira Kalman (2012 Affiliated Fellow) discusses a new collection of illustrations, titled Still Life with Remorse, with Rumaan Alam at the New York Public Library on November 21.

A Harvard University symposium dedicated to the work of Giuliana Bruno (2019 Resident), an interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture, takes place on November 21. The event features a keynote address delivered by Isaac Julien (2016 Resident).

The London Review of Books has published a poem called “[    ]” by Jorie Graham (2008 Resident). The issue also contains a review of Martin McLaughlin’s book Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist by Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident).

Nicola Barbagli (2024 Fellow) was featured in the documentary Operation Louxor: The Great Adventure of the Concorde Obelisk on the French channel Toute l’histoire on October 23. Around minute 42 he appears walking through the Academy’s Cortile toward the library, and then in the Arthur Ross Reading Room.