Far Afield

Last month the National Academy of Design elected new members for 2024. Among the inductees are five Rome Prize Fellows—the artists Diana Cooper, Rochelle Feinstein (2018), Beverly McIver (2018), and Sheila Pepe (2025) and the architect Jesse Reiser (1985)—and one AAR Resident, the architect Nader Tehrani (2018).

Eliza Griswold (2010 Fellow) is a National Book Award finalist in nonfiction for Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Tony Cokes (2023 Fellow) has won a 2024 fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. The artist was recognized for the “unexpected juxtapositions in his works [that] highlight the ways in which dominant narratives emerging from our oversaturated media environments reinforce existing power structures.”

On October 4 Alice Visentin (2023 Italian Fellow) will open a solo exhibition, Everyday Mystery, at Gió Marconi in Milan. Her paintings feature manifesting and dissolving shapes as well as a “relinquishing of control.”

A conversation between Glenn Ligon (2019 Resident), Kellie Jones, and Julie Mehretu (2020 Resident) on October 4 at Cooper Union in New York launches the publication of Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews. The evening also features a reading by Helga Davis.

Sitting Still, a documentary film dedicated to the landscape architect Laurie Olin (1974 Fellow), gets its world premiere on September 27 at the Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York. A second screening takes place the next day.

Today Carmen Belmonte (2019 Italian Fellow) is one of four speakers at John Cabot University in Rome who will gather to discuss her latest edited book, A Difficult Heritage: The Afterlives of Fascist-era Art and Architecture.

Today Yale University Press releases a new book, Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time, written by Dietrich Neumann (2014 Resident). The study offers “a new, critical look at Mies and complicates the established narrative about him.”

On September 24 Wabash College in Indiana presents Sandbox Percussion’s performance of the Grammy-nominated composition Seven Pillars by Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow).

Germane Barnes (2022 Fellow) combines research, architecture, and activism to connect identity and the built environment in Germane Barnes: Columnal Disorder at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tomorrow Patricia Cronin (2007 Fellow) will speak at “In Session: Perspectives on Art School in the 21st Century,” a day-long symposium addressing art education being held at the Art Students League of New York.

On September 22 Lyle Ashton Harris (2001 Fellow) will close his solo exhibition of photographs and installations, titled Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love, at the Queens Museum in New York.

On September 19 Zachary Fabri (2024 Fellow), an artist focused on lens-based media and public space, will give the first visiting artist lecture of the fall semester for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst’s Art Department.

The University of Colorado Art Museum in Boulder surveys nearly twenty years of art by William Villalongo (2022 Fellow). The work in William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations is “informed by research in the natural and social sciences, mythologies and folklore, popular culture imagery, and the history of art….”

The Miller Theatre at Columbia University honors Courtney Bryan (2020 Fellow) with a Composer Portrait concert tonight. Her music will be performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble and Quince Ensemble.

Tonight the Japan Society in New York begins a series of twelve sold-out performances of the award-winning Dogugaeshi, created by the puppeteer and artist Basil Twist (2019 Fellow), to be held from September 11 to 19.

The historian Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident) is one of four coeditors of Information: A Short History, published today by Princeton University Press. The book grapples with the enormous impact information has had on our everyday lives.

Today Reaktion Books releases Amāravatī: Art and Buddhism in Ancient India by Jaś Elsner (2024 Resident). The book offers insights into early Buddhist art in South Asia by examining the reliquary mounds at one of ancient India’s most remarkable monuments.

A solo exhibition of work by Marinella Senatore (2012 Italian Fellow), titled Together We Stand, ends its summer run at Kunsthaus Stade in Germany on Sunday, September 8.

Simon Verity, an English stone carver who created two works in the Academy’s Bass Garden—the Quasimodo Fountain and the sundial—has died at the age of 79. His work can also be seen at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and Canterbury Cathedral in England.