Far Afield

Color photograph of the head and shoulders of Germane Barnes

Germane Barnes Wins the 2021 Wheelwright Prize

Germane Barnes, recipient of the 2021–22 Rome Prize in Architecture, has been named winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize, a grant from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design that supports investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded research.
Detail of a color illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck of Jhumpa Lahiri sitting at a desk covered with papers in front of a window looking out onto an Italian cityscape

Sigrid Nunez on Jhumpa Lahiri

Sigrid Nunez (2001 Fellow) has reviewed Whereabouts by 2013 Resident Jhumpa Lahiri for the New York Review of Books. The novel is the first Lahiri has written in Italian and had translated into English.
Color photograph of Sanford Biggers (on the right) crouching behind two yellow blobby sculptures beside another man (on the left); both men wear masks

Sanford Biggers at Rockefeller Center

Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) will show his highly anticipated monumental Oracle sculpture and other works across the Rockefeller Center campus in New York. This public art exhibition, a partnership between Rockefeller Center and the Art Production Fund, runs May 5–June 29, 2021.

 
Color photograph of the head and shoulders of Corinna Gosmaro in profile, standing against a white studio wall and looking left at two blue and white circular fabric artworks on the wall, hanging at eye level

Corinna Gosmaro Wins Fiminco Foundation Award

Corinna Gosmaro (2020 Italian Fellow) was among sixteen artists to win an eleven-month residency at the Fiminco Foundation in Romainville, France. Her residency begins this September.
Color screenshot of the title card for Elizabeth Rodini's video interview with the Antiquities Coalition

The Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image

The Antiquities Coalition’s Peter Herdrich spoke to AAR’s Andrew Heiskell Arts Director Elizabeth Rodini about the incredible journey of Gentile Bellini’s celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed II.
Color photograph of Anne Munly standing behind a table displaying two-dimensional work in her Syracuse exhibition

Anne Munly Retirement Exhibition at Syracuse

Syracuse University is hosting Exhibition Interrupted, a display of work designed by Anne Munly (1996 Fellow) on view through May 25. Munly, a professor in the School of Architecture, is retiring after more than thirty years of service.
Color photograph of the face of Nathaniel Mackey looking to the left

Nathaniel Mackey in the New Yorker

Nathaniel Mackey (2017 Resident) talked to the New Yorker in advance of several new releases: three volumes of poetry collected under the name Double Trio; an album of words and sounds called Fugitive Equation (with the Creaking Breeze Ensemble); and a book of essays titled Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out.
Color photograph of a man and woman taking a selfie at nighttime, standing in front of a temporary white-lighted latticed structure designed by Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller Win Architecture Award

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller (2011 Fellows) have won a 2021 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kripa and Mueller are the founders of AGENCY, a collaborative interdisciplinary practice based in El Paso, Texas.
Color photograph of the face of David Karmon standing outside underneath a tree

David Karmon Is New JSAH Editor

David Karmon, a 2016 Fellow and the author of the forthcoming book Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance, talks to the University of California Press about taking the reins of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians as editor.
Color photograph of the head and shoulders of Nina C. Young standing outdoors in front of green plants

Nina C. Young and James Siena Win Guggenheim Fellowships

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2021 fellowships to Nina C. Young (2016 Fellow) in music composition and James Siena (2013 Resident) in fine arts.
Split-screen image with a photograph of Kirstin Valdez Quade on the left and the cover of her book "The Five Wounds" on the right

Kirstin Valdez Quade on “The Five Wounds”

Kirstin Valdez Quade (2019 Fellow) talks to NPR’s Scott Simon about her debut novel, The Five Wounds, which she worked on during her year in Rome.
Color photograph of the arms, head, and torso of Yehudi Wyner sitting at a piano

Yehudi Wyner Receives Gold Medal for Music

Yehudi Wyner, a 1956 Rome Prize Fellow in musical composition, was awarded a 2021 Gold Medal for Music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Color photograph of Chang-Rae Lee's head and torso as he stands on the landing of a stairwell

Award of Merit for the Novel Goes to Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee (2008 Resident) was given the 2021 Award of Merit for the Novel, a $25,000 prize that honors an outstanding writer who represents excellence in the craft of the novel, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Abstract artwork of a hut with a door composed of pencil, gouache, ink, beeswax on paper on canvas

Arts Awards for Suzanne Bocanegra and Jennifer Packer

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has given a 2021 Arts and Letters Award in Art to Suzanne Bocanegra (1991 Fellow) and a 2021 John Koch Award in Art to Jennifer Packer (2021 Fellow).
Color photograph of the face of Emma Blake in front of green foliage

Emma Blake to Co-Edit the American Journal of Archaeology

The Archaeological Institute of America has appointed Emma Blake, a 2013 Fellow in ancient studies, and Robert Schon as the next joint editors-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology.
Color photograph of an angular, architectural floor sculpture made of green-painted cherry wood and aluminum

Richard Rezac at Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Last week Richard Rezac (2007 Fellow) opened a solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. Titled Cast, the show is on view through May 8 and features a series of works Rezac made within the last year.
Several colorful round buttons with the profile of various animals in white

Michael Bierut Rebrands the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Michael Bierut (2016 Resident, current AAR Trustee) led a team at Pentagram that finished the two-year project of creating a new brand identity for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, which includes the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
Color photographs of two small Paul Manship bronze sculptures from 1925—Actaeon (left) and Diana (right)—that show a nude male and female figures accompanied by doglike animals

Wall Street Journal Reviews Paul Manship Exhibition

Judith H. Dobrzynski of the Wall Street Journal has reviewed Paul Manship: Ancient Made Modern, an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art that illuminates how this sculptor—a 1912 Rome Prize Fellow and the creator of AAR’s Cortile fountain—became a master of his craft.
Color profile photograph of a black man wearing a sculptural brass musical instrument on his head

Steve Parker’s War Tubas

Steve Parker (2021 Fellow) talks to Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim (2018 Resident) of the New York Times about his “war tuba,” a musical instrument that is a sculptural listening device instead of a sound maker. His inspirations are the early-twentieth-century military sound locators that detected enemy aircraft before the advent of radar.
Color photograph of a seated Ann Hamilton holding a microphone and speaking during the 2018 Rome Prize Ceremony

Ann Hamiton to Create Public Artwork in Iowa

The US General Services Administration has commissioned Ann Hamilton (2017 Resident) to create an Art in Architecture project for the new federal courthouse under construction in Des Moines, Iowa.