American Academy in Rome

The Easton Journal revisits Farmers and Geese (1939), a WPA-era bas-relief in a Connecticut post office by the Boston sculptor Joseph Coletti, an Affiliated Fellow from 1924 to 1926.

The landscape architect David Rubin of Land Collective (2012 Fellow) gets a glowing profile from the Indianapolis Monthly about his numerous projects in Indianapolis, including Newfields, Eskenazi Hospital, and Cummins Indianapolis Distribution Center.

Jed Perl (2003 and 2014 Affiliated Fellow) has finished the second volume of a two-part biography of the American sculptor Alexander Calder. The book, Calder: The Conquest of Space, has been reviewed by the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2020 fellowships to Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) and Suzanne Bocanegra (1991 Fellow) in the category for fine arts, to Sigrid Nunez (2001 Fellow) for fiction, and to Emily Wilson (2006 Fellow) for translation.