American Academy in Rome

The Vilcek Foundation has awarded the inaugural Vilcek Prize for Excellence to Carmen C. Bambach (1994 Fellow, 2015 Affiliated Fellow), a curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The prize, which includes a $100,000 award, is given to an immigrant who has had a significant impact on American society and world culture.

Patrick Tighe, a 2007 Fellow in architecture, is one of five recipients of Interior Design’s annual Hall of Fame Award for 2018. Tighe was selected by the magazine’s editor in chief Cindy Allen and a nominating committee of previous Hall of Fame members.

Rainbow Room / The Year in Hate, a solo exhibition of new work by Rochelle Feinstein (2018 Fellow), is on view at Campoli Presti in London through November 11. For this exhibition, Feinstein combines two mirroring propositions—as indicated in her title—to explore the dysfunctional relationships between language, perception, and constructed meanings.

The New York Times has reviewed Marnie, an opera based on Winston Graham’s novel with music composed by Nico Muhly (2018 Resident). “Mr. Muhly opted,” Anthony Tommasini writes, “to maintain mystery through whole stretches of the score, to suggest emotions rather than making everything explicit.”