Far Afield

Jed Perl (2003 and 2014 Affiliated Fellow) has finished the second volume of a two-part biography of the American sculptor Alexander Calder. The book, Calder: The Conquest of Space, has been reviewed by the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Sarah Rose Sharp has reviewed Memory Houses by Robert Hutchison, a 2017 Fellow in architecture, for Hyperallergic. Hutchison developed many of the book’s drawings during his time in Rome, and the project was influenced by conversations with his fellow Fellows.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2020 fellowships to Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) and Suzanne Bocanegra (1991 Fellow) in the category for fine arts, to Sigrid Nunez (2001 Fellow) for fiction, and to Emily Wilson (2006 Fellow) for translation.

Bryony Roberts, a 2016 Rome Prize Fellow in historic preservation and conservation, is one of three architects shortlisted for the 2020 Wheelwright Prize, given by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The prize comes with a $100,000 grant intended to support two years of study.

Condé Nast Traveler has named Four Seasons in Rome, a memoir from Anthony Doerr (2005 Fellow, 2019 Resident), and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013 Resident) as two of the best armchair travel books.

Interview Magazine talks to Roberto Lugo, our 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in design, about his ceramics depicting Tupac Shakur, Colin Kaepernick, and Frederick Douglas.

The Association of American Publishers has given the 2020 R. R. Hawkins Award to Carmen C. Bambach (1994 Fellow, 2005 Affiliated Fellow) for her four-volume work, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). The book also won the association’s 2020 PROSE Award in Humanities.

The artist Martin Puryear (1998 Resident) was one of three people to be awarded a 2020 Getty Medal from the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Samiya Bashir, a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, opens up to Reed Magazine about poetry, politics, and writer’s block.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette has interviewed Matt Donovan, director of Smith College’s Poetry Center and a 2012 Fellow in literature.

Two Residents, Fikret Yegül (1998) and Diane Favro (2015), won a 2020 PROSE Award in Reference Works for their 2019 book Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity.

Headlands Center for the Arts in California has announced its new residents, which include Fellows Erin Besler (2019), Anna Betbeze (2014), Suzanne Rivecca (2012), and Carolyn Yarnell (2000).

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning has appointed Nicholas de Monchaux (2014 Fellow, 2000 Affiliated Fellow) to head the Department of Architecture, beginning July 2020.

Holly Flora (2011 Fellow) was awarded the Premio San Francesco from the Pontifical University of Saint Anthony (Antonianum) in Rome for her book Cimabue and the Franciscans (2018).

Oberlin Music has released Late Air, a compact disc of musical compositions by John Harbison (1981 Fellow) and sung by the soprano Kendra Colton.

Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem (2017 Fellows) collaborated with Eric Forman Studio to create Heart Squared, a public art installation in New York’s Times Square, organized by Times Square Arts and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

The visual artist Nari Ward (2013 Fellow) and two current Rome Prize winners in musical composition, Courtney Bryan and Pamela Z, have received 2020 fellowships from United States Artists.

An exhibition at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning will present prints by the renowned architectural storyteller Douglas Darden (1989 Fellow).

Maya Maskarinec (2014 Fellow) has won a 2020 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome.”

Later this month the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art will open Everything That’s Alive Moves, a solo exhibition of work by 2019 Fellow Karyn Olivier that includes pieces conceived of and created during her Fellowship year.