Far Afield

The landscape architect Mary Margaret Jones’s (1998 Fellow) renovation of Philadelphia’s iconic LOVE park had a ceremonial groundbreaking this week.

The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum opens a new public garden by Fellow Walter Hood with the design studio Diller Scofidio+Renfro .

A project in Rwanda by AAR Trustee Sharon Davis continues to receive accolades. See her Women’s Opportunity Center and Share Houses.

The Savannah College of Art and Design has named Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow) as its deFINE ART 2016 honoree. The accompanying exhibition, titled Carrie Mae Weems: Considered, will feature photography and video works from many of the artist’s iconic series.

The 2015 Rome Prize winner Lauren Mackler is featured in a major Artforum article, “Systems of Believe: Public Fiction” by Ned Michael Holte.

AAR Trustee Tod Williams (1983 Fellow) and Billie Tsien (2000 Resident) have been selected as Architectural Digest’s AD100 of 2016.

David Adjaye & Associates was selected by Architectural Digest for its 2016 AD100 list. Adjaye was a 2016 Resident at the Academy.

Calvin Tsao, a 2010 Resident and a current Trustee, has been named as one of Architectural Digest’s AD100 for 2016.

The 2015 Rome Prize winner Nina C. Young will be a 2016 composer in residence for the Riot Ensemble.

Celebrate the publication of a new book by Shane Butler (1999 Fellow), titled The Ancient Phonograph. The evening’s program—featuring a talk by Butler and an operatic monologue based on the book’s source texts by the singer Joseph Keckler—will delve into the peculiarities and vagaries of the human voice.

The San Francisco Chronicle has covered AAR’s panel discussion, “On Museum Design.”

A work by Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak, titled 1+8, is showing at MAXXI in the exhibition Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury, on view December 11, 2015, to April 30, 2016.

The composers Nina C. Young (2015 Rome Prize winner) and Dan Visconti (2014 Fellow) have been awarded commissions by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation.

Nari Ward, a 2013 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, will have midcareer retrospective titled Sun Splashed at Perez Art Museum in Miami.

Andrew Norman, a 2007 Fellow in musical composition, will premiere a new piano concerto between December 10 and 12 at David Geffen Hall in New York.

Night Poems by Doug Argue, a 1998 Fellow, literally covers Art Miami!

Giorgia Zanellato, a 2015 Italian Fellow, has been featured in Elle Decor.

Sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé, cofounded by Nina C. Young, our current Rome Prize winner in musical composition, will present its debut concert, A Taste of Échappé, at Saint Peter’s Church on November 16.

A collaboration between Bryony Roberts (2015 Fellow) and the South Shore Drill Team, the performance piece We Know How to Order deals with issues of race, public space, and architecture.

Laurie Anderson (2006 Resident) and AAR President and CEO Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow) kick off a new series of Patron’s event in New York.