Far Afield

The New York Times calls 2014 Fellow Dan Hurlin’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed a harrowing puppet show.

Dan Hurlin, a 2014 Rome Prize Fellow, will premiere Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed at Bard Summerscape on July 10.  

Barbara Goldsmith, a member of the AAR Board of Trustees and the author of Little Gloria, has died. She was 85 years old.

Anna Campbell Bliss, a 1984 Rome Prize Fellow in design, passed away on October 12, 2015, at her home in Salt Lake City after a long illness. She was 90 years old.

1962 Fellow Ross Holloway has published an article on excavation at Cosa in Martate edizioni.

Molissa Fenley (2008 Fellow) is presenting parts of her new work Water Table: The Third Coast, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, performed by Christiana Axelsen and Rebecca Chaleff and Mali with music by Laetitia Sonami, performed by Fenley at New York Live Arts Theater from June 14 to 18.

2014 Fellow Catie Newell’s exhibition Overnight will open at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on June 11.

The Snøhetta architect Craig Dykers, a 2015 Resident, has been featured in the magazine Interior Design.

The Rome gallery Magazzino will present an exhibition of drawings, titled Pergamena, by the 2016 Rome Prize Winner David Schutter.

The 2016 Booth Family Rome Prize winner Bryony Roberts will present her new publication, Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation, at the Venice Biennale on May 26 (4:00pm at Nordic Pavilion, Giardini, Venice).

Congratulations to Trustee and 1998 Fellow Mary Margaret Jones and Hargreaves Associates, which was awarded the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture.

Facts on the Ground, an exhibition of new work by Shimon Attie, a 2002 Rome Prize Fellow, opens at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York on April 28.

Congratulations to 2012 Fellow Matt Donovan on the publication of a series of essays written during his fellowship, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press).

Shimon Attie, a 2002 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, will discuss his new monograph and current exhibition Facts on the Ground at the New York Public Library on May 10, 2016.

The 2015 Rome Prize winner Christopher Cerrone will premiere his Los Angeles Philharmonic–commissioned The Pieces That Fall to Earth on March 24 at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York.

Congratulations to Fellows and Residents who have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters!

The work of Corin Hewitt, a 2015 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, is featured in group show, In a Field With No Bounds, in Burlington, Vermont.

The 2000 Fellow Wendy Kaplan will host a panel discussion at the UCLA Hammer Museum called “Crafted at Black Mountain: Skill, De-Skill, and Contemporary Art Practice” on Thursday, March 24, 2016.

AAR congratulates the 2016 AIANY Design Award winners, which include several Academy Fellows and Residents.

The Rome Prize Fellow Nina Young’s group Ensemble Échappé will perform her work and that of Andrew Norman (2007 Fellow) at Symphony Space in New York on Thursday, February 25.