Far Afield

The landscape architect, educator, and author M. Paul Friedberg (1983 Resident) died on February 15, 2025. He was 93 years old.

Nicholas de Monchaux (2014 Fellow) and John Ochsendorf (2008 Fellow) participate in Record on the Road Boston, a gathering to discuss “Sustainability in Practice,” on February 19. The event is organized by Architectural Record and held at the MIT Media Lab.

Tonight Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) joins a panel of speakers at Villa Medici in Rome for a discussion on the Museum of Transgender History and Art (MOTHA).

Lynn Meskell (2015 Resident) and Benjamin Isakhan address priorities of reconstruction in “Heritage and Healing: A Decade On from the Destruction of the Mosul Museum,” published by Australian Outlook.

Mel Bochner (1992 Resident), a first-generation Conceptual artist whose work explores the limits of language and space, among other subjects, died on February 12, 2025. He was 84 years old.

Thomas Bolt (1994), a poet, writer of fiction and criticism, and painter whose work appeared in n+1, BOMB Magazine, the Paris Review, Epiphany, Nuovi Argomenti, and Literary Imagination, died on January 25, 2025, at age 65. His collection Out of the Woods was published by Yale University Press in 1989. Bolt also collaborated with composer Sebastian Currier (1994 Fellow).

The Princeton University Art Museum opens Roberto Lugo/Orange and Black at Art@Bainbridge on February 15. The exhibition presents work by our 2020 Fellow that explores contemporary social and political oppression by drawing on the shapes and motifs of ancient Greek vases.

Tonight AAR President Peter N. Miller will discuss his new book, The Weather on 9/9/01: Newspaper Weather Maps and History, with D. Graham Burnett, a writer and historian of science, at 192 Books in New York.

ART CITY Bologna, taking place February 6–16, celebrates the city’s ten historic gates with site-specific commissions. The program includes installations by Dread Scott (2024 Fellow) at Porta San Felice and Fatma Bucak (2024 Italian Fellow) at Porta Castiglione.

For History’s Persistent Voice, the Grammy Award–winning vocalist Julia Bullock will sing newly commissioned compositions by Tania León (1998 Resident), Carolyn Yarnell (2000 Fellow), and Pamela Z (2020 Fellow), among others, in a performance tonight at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Daniel Mendelsohn (2010 Affiliated Fellow), editor at large for the New York Review of Books, asks “Can We Really Learn from the Past? The Holocaust, History, and the Problem of Memory” in a lecture today at the University of South Carolina.

An exhibition of new work by Todd Gray at Lehmann Maupin in New York, titled While Angels Gaze, features photographs he took during his 2023 Rome Prize Fellowship. The show is on view through March 22.

Tonight Walter Hood (1997 Fellow, 2014 Resident) will discuss his new book documenting the International African American Museum’s landscape design with Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow) at Rizzoli Bookstore in New York.

Parker Sutton and Katie Jenkins (2023 Fellows) share their approaches to care that enhance landscape function, promote vegetative abundance, and model new aesthetic norms in a February 6 lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Today the University of Notre Dame’s Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opens Clarissa Tossin: All That You Touch, You Change. This solo show from our 2025 Affiliated Artist features moving image, sculpture, drawing, weaving, and more.

Rachel Jacoff (2011 Resident), a longtime professor of Italian and comparative literature at Wellesley College, died on January 24. A collaborative scholar, she coauthored and coedited The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s Comedy (1991), The Poets’ Dante (2001), and Dante and the Jewish Question (2004).

The London Review of Books has published a work titled “The Falling,” written by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham (2008 Resident).

Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Los Angeles Master Chorale will perform the world premiere of before and after nature by David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident). The concert takes place on February 1 at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall.

Gary Schneider (2014 Affiliated Fellow) has cocurated Eyes Open in the Dark, an exhibition of Peter Hujar’s later work, at Raven Row in London. The show, opening today, features photographs created “when his emergence from a debilitating depression in 1976 brought about a new expansiveness.”

In The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe, published by Princeton University Press, Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident) offer a “panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge.”