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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.
Colorful abstract artwork in oil and pencil, in aqua, red, brown, purple, and green

Elliott Green at Pamela Salisbury Gallery

Tomorrow Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York, will present the opening of AutoRevisionism, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by 2012 Fellow Elliott Green. The show will continue until April 4.
Color portrait of the head of David Sanford (photograph by Tony Rinaldo)

Music Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Among the eighteen recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters music awards are David Sanford (2003 Fellow), Yotam Haber (2008 Fellow), Lei Liang (2012 Fellow), Annie Gosfield (2016 Resident), and William Dougherty (2021 Fellow).
Color photograph of the head and torso of Richard Powell seated in an outdoor patio location

Richard Powell Talks Black Art History

Richard Powell (2018 Resident) of Duke University talked to Artnet News about the arc of his career and the evolution of scholarship into Black art history.
Detail of the cover of Jack Livings's book The Blizzard Party, showing a snow covered street

Debut Novel from Jack Livings

Jack Livings (2017 Fellow) worked on his first novel, The Blizzard Party, during his Rome Prize year. It’s about to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Black and white photogaph of the face of Roger Bond Martin

Landscape Architect Roger Bond Martin Has Died

Roger Bond Martin (1964 Fellow), cofounder of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Landscape Architecture, has died. He was known in the Twin Cities for the renovation of the Grand Rounds parkway system and for leading the design of the Minnesota Zoo. In 1968, Martin established InterDesign with graphic designer Peter Seitz and systems analyst Stephen Kahne.
Color portrait of the head, shoulders, and chest of Avinoam Shalem, standing on the front steps of the McKim Mead & White Building in Rome

Artribute Interview with Avinoam Shalem

AAR’s new director Avinoam Shalem spoke with Artribune about the Academy’s reopening, the incoming Fellows, and the challenges an international research institution faces in COVID times.
Color photograph of a person standing in a wooden stall on the grass, next to a wooden rowboat on its side

Creative Capital Grant for Three 2009 Fellows

Three 2009 Fellows—Marie Lorenz (visual arts), Dana Spiotta (literature), and Kurt Rohde (musical composition)—won a 2021 Creative Capital grant in opera and sculpture for their project, Newtown Odyssey.