Far Afield

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.