Far Afield

Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965 by Thomas J. Campanella (2011 Fellow) looks at two unsung giants of American landscape and urban design.

The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer's Life, written by Margaret A. Brucia (1992 Fellow) and published by Princeton University Press, is an intimate portrait of a modernist American poet.

The University of Texas Press will soon publish The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii by Brenda Longfellow (2013 Fellow), a book examining gender, space, and survival in Roman homes.

Sinclair Bell (2003 Fellow) was named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, DC, for spring 2026. His project is Aethiopians in Roman Art and Society: Race, Representation, and Social Practice.

The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece, an exhibition organized by Claire Lyons (2022 Resident) with Nicole Budrovich, opens on June 27 at the Getty Villa in California.

Experience a concert on July 2 that includes the premiere of a new work by Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow) at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.

MoCA CT will present At the Beach, an exhibition of photographs by Tod Papageorge (2009 Resident), alongside works by his former graduate students in a companion show called In the Pool, from June 26 to October 12, 2025.

Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) returns to Villa Medici in Rome on June 19 for a communal reading and a new presentation of Shorelines, an installation conceived by the collective black cat day dream. Curatorial duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (2025 Italian Fellows) is among those reading selected “beautiful” pages from favorite books during the event.

The Palo Alto Players in California will stage the Pulitzer Prize–winning drama Sweat by Lynn Nottage (2023 Resident) at the Lucie Stern Theater between June 13 and 29.

Devon Dikou and Julia Rose Katz (2025 Fellows) will celebrate the release of Permanent Accident, a collaborative artist’s book published by zingmagazine that explores themes of fragmentation, recontextualization, and montage, on June 12 in the American Academy’s Salone.

For the exhibition Black Soil Poems at Galleria Borghese in Rome, Wangechi Mutu (2019 Resident) places her own work throughout the museum’s galleries, façade, and gardens.

The University of California Press has published Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire by Aaron Cayer (2024 Fellow). The book examines the architects at AECOM who shaped global systems and power structures, concealing their influence behind corporate architecture.

The closing reception for Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts (Part One) by the architect Erin Besler (2019 Fellow), taking place June 7 at Art Omi in Ghent, New York, offers a carpentry workshop with Build Hudson.

The launch of a new English-language edition of Michelangelo Antonioni’s book That Bowling Alley on the Tiber at Supernova in Rome on June 9 features a screening of The Passenger followed by a reading from the book by Julia Rose Katz (2025 Fellow).

Anna Arabindan-Kesson (2023 Affiliated Fellow) has contributed an essay to a new book, Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art, published by Thames and Hudson.

Last month Rebecca Messbarger (2021 Fellow) of Italian at Washington University in St. Louis launched The Eye, a medical humanities podcast exploring health, illness, and care through storytelling, interviews, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Curated by Guglielmo Corb, From Fulfilment to Adaptation features work by Devon Dikeou (2025 Fellow). The exhibition will be held at Seconde Vue in Rome from June 3 to 6, 2025.

The Middle East Institute’s Arts and Culture Center in Washington, DC, welcomes the writer and professor Azar Nafisi (2005 Resident), who will reflect on the power of literature in times of crisis at this June 3 event.

Tomorrow Teresita Fernández (1999 Affiliated Fellow, 2017 Resident) and Darren Walker will be in conversation at the Ford Foundation’s Center for Social Justice in New York to celebrate the publication of an edited volume, A Handbook of Latinx Art.

Today Higher Pictures in New York presents 44 Irving Street 1970–1971, the earliest series of photographs by Susan Meiselas (2017 Resident). The exhibition was previously seen at Harvard Art Museums.