Far Afield

Color photograph of stone and cloth objects on a makeshift wood table, outdoors in front of a red painted fence

James Welling’s “Thought Objects”

James Welling, who will be the Academy’s Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer in Residence this May, explores digital processes in his latest solo exhibition, Thought Objects, at David Zwirner in New York.
Color photograph of several painted ceramic artworks made to look like ancient artifacts

Rhona Hoffman Gallery Presents Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz (2023 Resident) follows up The Monument, The Monster and The Maquette, his 2022 exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, with Listening Back to Fragments, on view through March 2.
Color photograph of a black man in an artist studio looking at his prints

Todd Gray in Conversation in Los Angeles

The artist Todd Gray (2023 Fellow) and the curator Ekow Eshun will meet at Vielmetter Los Angeles tomorrow to discuss the artist’s current exhibition of Rome Work at the gallery, as well as future projects.
Color photograph of fire and smoke in a black neighborhood during the 1992 uprising in Los Angeles

Never-before-Seen Photos by Catherine Opie in Los Angeles

For the exhibition harmony is fraught, Regen Projects in Los Angeles will debut over sixty photographs by Catherine Opie (2021 Resident) that have never been shown publicly. The presentation features images taken over the last thirty-plus years.
Detail of a green and black abstract painting

Sharon Horvath’s Paintings in New York

Paintings by Sharon Horvath (1997 Fellow), appearing in Small Myriad at Bookstein Projects in New York, “convey the feeling of deep water that contains both one’s reflection as well as the void.” The exhibition opens on January 11, 2024.
Detail of a book cover showing cloth binding material and a sliver of a roman incised drawing

John North Hopkins Surveys Four Centuries of Art and Architecture

John North Hopkins (2009 Fellow) surveys four centuries of art and architecture in Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, ca. 650–250 BCE, his new book from Yale University Press.
Color reproduction of a painting showing an abstracted mountain scene predominantly in blues and whites

Elliott Green’s Imaginary Landscapes in New Orleans

Elliott Green (2012 Fellow) calls his new paintings Imaginary Landscapes. See them in a solo show at Ferrara Showman Gallery in New Orleans through February 9.
Color photograph of an artist in her studio

Abigail DeVille Named Fellow at Princeton’s Lewis Center

The artist Abigail DeVille (2018 Fellow) will be a Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts during the 2024–25 academic year.
color photograph of a woman in a labcoat leaning over a table with objects as men stand behind her looking on

Pamela Hatchfield Joins NYU as Conservation Professor

Pamela Hatchfield (2007 Fellow) was recently named 2023–24 Judith Praska Visiting Distinguished Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Color reproduction of an artwork depicting a multicolored map

Joyce Kozloff’s Solo Exhibition in Hudson

Joyce Kozloff (2000 Fellow) showed new and recent work in a solo exhibition, Uncivil Wars, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York.
Graphic design illustration of concentric circles, each with a cut out collage

Katie Kitamura Reviews Marie NDiaye’s Novel

Katie Kitamura, our current Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow in Literature, has reviewed Marie NDiaye’s new novel, Vengeance Is Mine, in the December issue of the Atlantic.
Color photograph of a temporary slotted wood pavilion in a public square in Miami surrounded by palm trees

Germane Barnes’s “Ukhamba” in Miami

Germane Barnes (2022 Fellow) has installed a temporary pavilion Ukhamba outside Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art and Design, on view on the Wolfson campus through February 24, 2024. The work then moves to the school’s North Campus for display between March 11 and May 26.
Color film still from the movie May December, showing two women standing by a lake

Alexandra Kleeman on Potrayals of Desire in Cinema

The novelist Alexandra Kleeman (2021 Fellow) examines the complicated depictions of sex in recent contemporary films—including May December, Oppenheimer, and Saltburn—for the New York Times Magazine.
Color photograph of a man conducting a choir in a church

The Crossing to Sing David Lang’s World Premiere

The Crossing, a choir dedicated to new music, will perform the world premiere of poor hymnal by David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident). The concert will be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Iron Gate Theatre in Philadelphia on December 15.
Detail of a drawing with many red squiggly lines

James Siena Drawings in New York

James Siena (2013 Resident) is presenting drawings at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York. “Each line moves in a similar—not identical—manner over and over, across the page, wryly imitating itself,” writes Laura Bannister in the catalogue. The exhibition opening is December 14.
Eight images of the same brass instruments, each overlaid with a different color

Steve Parker’s “Weird Winter”

Steve Parker (2021 Fellow) is presenting an installation, Weird Winter, at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. The work comprises brass instruments, musical snow globes, marionette-animated trees, and more.
Detail of a book cover with the title "Magus" and a red and black woodcut print of a four fingers and the tip of a thumb

Anthony Grafton Investigates the Learned Magician

This week Belknap Press is publishing Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton (2004 Resident). The book explores the place of the “learned magician” in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe.
Color photo of an older light skinned man seated at a piano

John Harbison Composition to Be Performed

Quad City Symphony Orchestra will perform Snow Country by 1981 Resident John Harbison at the Adler Theatre in Davenport, Iowa, as part of its Masterworks III: Winter Wonders repertoire. The concert takes place on December 2.
Black and white photo of three perfomers in costume on a stage

Colin Gee Production in Cork

On December 1, Dance Cork Firkin Crane in Ireland is staging All The Relations by Colin Gee (2012 Fellow) and Angie Smalis. The performance tells the story of a small-town event with eight dancers, a narrator, and live music.
Detail of a Renaissance painting of the head and torso of a woman

Diane Cole Ahl Writes “Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy”

Last month Yale University Press published Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art by Diane Cole Ahl (2013 Resident). The book is based, in part, on research conducted at the Academy during her time in Rome.