Far Afield

The 1991 Fellow David Lang’s symphony for a broken orchestra breathes life into four hundred damaged public-school instruments.

Don’t miss a collaboration between 2016 Fellow Bryony Roberts, Mabel O. Wilson, and the Marching Cobras of New York. Live performances will take place this Saturday and Sunday at 12:00 noon, 1:00pm, and 2:00pm at Marcus Garvey Park near the entrance on 122nd Street and Madison Avenue.

AAR sends congratulations to Mary Margaret Jones (1998 Fellow and Chair of the AAR Board of Trustees) and Hargreaves Associates for their design of Zaryadye Park in Moscow, the city’s first major public park in half a century.

The art exhibition Lumen by 2014 Fellows Eric Nathan and Catherine Wagner, the landscape architect Loretta Gargan, and the architect Thomas Kelley will show in the Cohen Gallery at Brown University from October 5 to November 5.

The retrospective Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture is on view through November 5 at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.

The New York Times has reviewed Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897, a new exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that was organized by Vivien Greene (2004 Fellow) .

AAR congratulates the architects Tod Williams (1993 Fellow, current AAR Trustee) and Billie Tsien (2000 Resident), who were elected to the American Philosophical Society—the nation’s oldest scholarly organization.

Join 2016 Fellow Mark Boulos as he presents his new monograph on Thursday, June 8 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and then at the Galerie Stigter van Doesburg in Amsterdam on Friday, June 9.

Senam Okudzeto (2016 Fellow) has won a Graham Foundation Exhibition Grant for the production of her project Geomancy, Modernity, and Memory: Unofficial and Unrecognized Historic Civic Centers in Ghana.

Bryony Roberts, a 2016 Rome Prize Fellow, presents a site-specific installation at the 2017 California-Pacific Triennial, which opens to the public this Saturday, May 6.

Nina Young (2016 Fellow) has been named Peabody Conservatory Visiting Composer at Johns Hopkins University, beginning in fall 2017.

AAR remembers a 1976 Fellow and a friend to the Academy, Diane Lewis, who passed away on May 2, 2017.

The novel The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (2014 Fellow) has been adapted into a film with the same name starring Ellen Burstyn.

A solo exhibition of work by Shimon Attie (2002 Fellow), titled Lost in Space (After Huck), will run from March 24 to June 25 at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Daniel Mendelsohn, a 2010 Affiliated Fellow, offers a stirring tribute to the New York Review of Books editor Bob Silvers, a former AAR Trustee.

The Academy remembers a pioneer in American archaeology, Anna Marguerite McCann Taggart, who died on February 12, 2017.

An eponymous exhibition by an AAR Trustee, Fred Wilson, opens tonight at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York.

The University of Virginia School of Architecture has selected Bradley Cantrell, a 2014 Fellow, as its new chair of landscape architecture.

Former AAR Director and 1994 Fellow Christopher Celenza has been named dean of Georgetown College.

Nari Ward (2013 Fellow) was awarded the top Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts. Ward’s work explores the creation of a public conversation (or an intimate dialogue) with the viewer—especially one that makes the field of contemporary art more inclusive.