Far Afield

Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan (2011 Fellow) is published today by Washington Square Press. The novel follows colleagues at a New York museum over a single day.

Aleksandar Bošković (2024 Affiliated Fellow), senior lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, was awarded the North American Society for Serbian Studies Book Prize for Zenithism (1921–1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology with his coeditor, Steven Teref.

At the Athens Open Meeting 2025 tomorrow, Guy Hedreen (1994 Fellow) will address “Composite Creatures in Greek Culture: Art, Science, and Imagination” at the American School of Classical Studies.

Marie Lorenz (2009 Fellow) will contextualizes her artistic practice in this April 10 lecture at the University of California, Davis, where she is spring quarter visiting professor.

Today Katie Kitamura (2024 Fellow) publishes her new novel, Audition, with Riverhead. NPR calls the book a “tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller.”

Catherine Opie (2021 Resident) presents new photographs and ceramic sculptures as A Study of Blue Mountains, her latest solo exhibition at Lehman Maupin in New York. The show features the Norwegian Mountain series, her newest body of work to date.

On April 3, hear Verge, Remix, and Bodymusic by Sebastian Currier (1994 Fellow), a guest composer in residence at the University of Michigan, performed live by Contemporary Directions Ensemble.

The Chicago artist Lan Tuazon (2024 Affiliated Fellow) will speak at the MIT List Visual Arts Center on April 5 for the 2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability. Her panel navigates “landscapes of extraction, displacement, and ecological change.”

Classicist Rebecca R. Benefiel (2003 Fellow) collaborated with two physicians, Perry Hammond and Kent Lam, to write and publish “An Account of Roman Surgical Treatments for Ozena: Historical Review” in the journal Laryngoscope.

In the Guardian, Roberto Lugo, a ceramic artist and a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in design, emphasizes the importance of telling inclusive stories through art, highlighting how his work honors overlooked communities and challenges traditional museum narratives.

Giorgia Zanellato (2015 Italian Fellow) and Daniele Bortotto are presenting five custom-designed rooms in the Brera Design Apartment during Milan Design Week. Visits to the project, called Orizzonti, are by appointment.

On April 1 Nico Vascellari (2008 Italian Fellow) will open Pastorale, a solo exhibition of recent and previously unseen works, at Palazzo Reale di Milano’s Sala delle Cariatidi.

David M. Childs (2024 Resident, Trustee Emeritus), an architect who designed many buildings in New York—including 1 World Trade Center, Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, and Time Warner Center—with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, died on March 26 at age 83. Childs, who served two years as chair of the Academy’s Board of Trustees (2006–8), also led the centenary renovation of our McKim, Mead & White Building in 1994.
 

Today Seán Hemingway (2003 Affiliated Fellow) speaks at an Italian Academy symposium on “50 Years Since the Discoveries at Mont’e Prama” at Columbia University. Steven Ellis (2013 Fellow, 2016 Affiliated Fellow) moderates the event.

Harvard University’s Danielle Allen (2020 Resident) will give a public lecture at the University of Notre Dame on March 27 as part of the Notre Dame Forum 2024–25. Her subject is “Bringing Democracy Back from the Brink: A Strategic Vision and a Call to Action.” 

Hear the world premieres of two compositions, then, nothing by Kamran Ince (1988 Fellow) and Copper Canvas by Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow) on March 26 at intO tHe WiLd, a music festival in Milwaukee organized by Present Music. Born to be Wild by David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident) will also be performed at the same concert, which repeats on March 27.

On March 27 Kate Soper (2024 Fellow) will present Ipsa Dixit—a chamber music theater piece for voice, flute, violin, and percussion that explores music, language, and meaning—at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer and our 2025 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, died on March 20. A tribute from the Academy is forthcoming.

Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, joins Claudia Durastanti (2015 Italian Fellow) and Andrea Romanzi for a conversation at Parco della Musica in Rome exploring literature, language, and silence.

On March 25, Erica Moretti (2024 Fellow) will moderate a Montclair State University event featuring Maria Laurino, who is speaking about her latest book, The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land without Choice.