Far Afield

Ensemble, the largest presentation of works by Julie Mehretu (2020 Resident) in Europe, opens on March 17 at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. The exhibition is punctuated by the presence of close artist friends, including Huma Bhabha, Tacita Dean, David Hammons (1990 Fellow), and Paul Pfeiffer.

Today Samuel D. Gruber (1987 Fellow) lectures on “The Unfinished Task,” reviewing how Jewish historic and religious sites in Central and Eastern Europe have been documented, protected, and maintained by public and private interests. Of special interest are synagogues, cemeteries, and Holocaust-centered sites.

From March 15 to 17, Autumn Knight (2022 Fellow) is presenting the West Coast premiere of NOTHING#31: a bar at REDCAT in Los Angeles. The work is part of a series investigating the Italian concept of dolce far niente (the sweetness of doing nothing), which the artist developed in Rome.

John Ochsendorf (2008 Fellow, former Director) will discuss “Inka Suspension Bridges: Engineering a Pre-Industrial Construction” at Johns Hopkins University’s Distinguished Lecture in the Art of the Ancient Americas on March 14.

The artist Alex Da Corte (2023 Fellow) directed the music video for a new St. Vincent song, “Broken Man.” His visuals will also accompany Annie Clark’s forthcoming album, All Born Screaming. 

Antoine Predock, an architect and a 1985 Rome Prize Fellow “who became known for buildings that resonated with the landscape of the American Southwest,” has died.

The University of Chicago Press is publishing Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise by Rebecca Zorach (2021 Resident), which examines race, public monuments, and the occupation of land in the United States.

The Turin-based artist Manuele Cerutti (2022 Italian Fellow) is presenting new paintings and works on paper at a solo exhibition, titled QUEM GENUIT ADORAVIT, at Fondazione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia.

Marla Stone (1996 Fellow, former Mellon Humanities Professor) will lecture on “Acts of Self Representation: Nazi–Fascist Cultural Diplomacy” at the University of Oregon as part of the Propaganda: Fascism and Neo-Fascism Lecture Series.

Research into community involvement and cultural understanding in creating shared built environments, conducted by the designer and writer Leighton Beaman and the landscape architect Zaneta Hong (2019 Fellow), is the subject of The Civic Playground Project, an exhibition that opens today at Cornell University.

The organist Paul Jacobs performs a John Harbison composition, What Do We Make of Bach?, in Boston on March 3 with the New England Philharmonic. The day’s program also features 2003 Fellow David Sanford’s piece, Thy Book of Toil.

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff (2013 Resident) is a “fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women of the 16th and early 17th centuries,” writes Tina Brown in the New York Times.

The Cincinnati Art Museum presents Whitfield Lovell: Passages, a thought-provoking, comprehensive retrospective that presents over eighty works in drawing, assemblage, and installation by our 2019 Resident. The exhibition, opening on March 1, is on view through May 26.

Frank Stella (1983 Resident) constructs a site-specific installation, titled Project Atrium: Frank Stella, that opens on February 29 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, in Florida.

In “Pentagram Partners Tell All,” Michael Bierut (2016 Resident) joins his colleagues to unveil the mystique surrounding the storied design firm. This discussion, to be streamed live on February 28, is sponsored by AIGA NY.

Chris Reed (2017 Resident), founding director of STOSS Landscape Urbanism, will give the inaugural Dean’s Lecture at the University of Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning on February 28. Attend in person or watch on Zoom.

On February 27, Lyle Ashton Harris (2001 Fellow) talks to Clifford Prince King at Cooper Union. This Public Art Fund conversation focuses on King’s recent project of photographs on bus shelters and newsstands across New York, Chicago, and Boston.

A retrospective exhibition surveying the artistic work of the design writer and editor Stanley Abercrombie (1983 Fellow) opens on February 25 at the Point Richmond Gallery, in the San Francisco Bay area.

Elle Pérez talks to Ben Broome of Flash Art, describing their confluence of art, music, and teaching as part of a larger form: acts of communication. Pérez's work pursues “achieving a photographic description of the ephemeral condition of living.”

The filmmakers Kevin Jerome Everson (2002 Fellow) and Claudrena N. Harold talk to Maya Cade, curator of Black Film Archive, after a February 24 screening of their joint work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. A day later, Everson presents and discusses his recent solo films.