Far Afield

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.

Andrew Norman, the 2007 winner of the Samuel Barber Rome Prize, receives a rave review from the New York Times critic David Allen for his composition, Play.

The magazine Domus has featured the work of two current Rome Prize winners, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem. The article includes their exploration of Italy’s contemporary ruins.

Thompson Gallery at the Cambridge School of Weston is currently featuring an exhibition on the work of Jack Massey (1961 Fellow), titled Jack Massey—Light & Dark.

A new monograph by 2005 Fellow Allan Wexler, titled Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design, is now available through Lars Müller Publishers.

SO - IL founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu will present the inaugural Mark Robbins Lecture at the AIA New York Center for Architecture on January 19, 2017.

Andrew Norman, a 2007 Rome Prize Fellow in musical composition, has won the Grawemeyer Award for Music.

Chris Hawthorne (2016 Affiliated Fellow) has reviewed the Louis Kahn retrospective at the San Diego Museum of Art for the Los Angeles Times.

The Boston Symphony will premiere 2014 Fellow Eric Nathan’s composition “the space of a door” beginning November 8.

Mary Margaret Jones, chair of the AAR Board of Trustees and a 1998 Fellow, has accepted the 2016 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture.

Nicholas de Monchaux (2014 Fellow) has written a new book Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Hargreaves Associates, led by AAR Trustee and 1998 Fellow Mary Margaret Jones, has won the Rosa Barba International Landscape Award.

Christopher Celenza, a 1994 Rome Prize Fellow and a former AAR director, has been named vice provost for faculty affairs at Johns Hopkins University.

2016 Rome Prize winner Stella Nair has won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her project “Shelter, Shrine, and Prison: The Acllauasi and Other Spaces for Women in the Inca Empire.”

Krys Leem, a 2015 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, has been featured in a profile in the Los Angeles Times.