Far Afield

John Marciari (1998 Fellow) will speak at Columbia University’s Italian Academy on April 25 for a scholar’s day related to the Nicholas Hall exhibition Beyond the Fringe: Painting for the Market in 17th-Century Italy. His presentation addresses “Flowers, Fruits, and a New Art Market: Caravaggio’s Early Years in Rome.”

Aaron Cayer (2024 Fellow) has won a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship—the only recipient chosen from the discipline of architecture. The award recognizes Cayer’s influential work at the intersection of architecture, labor, and politics.

The High Line in New York presents Soft Power, a new artwork by artist Alex Da Corte (2023 Fellow), on the billboard adjacent to the park at 18th Street near Tenth Avenue. It remains on view through May.

On April 24, Paola D’Agostino (2013 Affiliated Fellow) will lead a seminar at Villa I Tatti in Florence on “Italian Art Museums Now,” addressing the importance of these spaces for the production of knowledge.

Tomorrow, on April 22, Jeanne Marie Teutonico (2009 Resident) will lecture on “Repair and Restore: Embracing Change, Preserving Memory, and Building Community through the Conservation of Cultural Heritage” at Harvard Art Museums.

Fugitive Tilts, the first book of prose by Ishion Hutchinson (2018 Fellow), is a collection of essays exploring memory, art, displacement, and Caribbean identity, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan (2011 Fellow) is published today by Washington Square Press. The novel follows colleagues at a New York museum over a single day.

The University of North Carolina, Wilmington, will host a concert on April 14 that features a premiere of From a Litany by William Grosvenor Neil (1983 Fellow), set from a poem by Mark Strand (1983 Resident). The piece 

Aleksandar Bošković (2024 Affiliated Fellow), senior lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, was awarded the North American Society for Serbian Studies Book Prize for Zenithism (1921–1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology with his coeditor, Steven Teref.

At the Athens Open Meeting 2025 tomorrow, Guy Hedreen (1994 Fellow) will address “Composite Creatures in Greek Culture: Art, Science, and Imagination” at the American School of Classical Studies.

Marie Lorenz (2009 Fellow) will contextualizes her artistic practice in this April 10 lecture at the University of California, Davis, where she is spring quarter visiting professor.

Today Katie Kitamura (2024 Fellow) publishes her new novel, Audition, with Riverhead. NPR calls the book a “tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller.”

Catherine Opie (2021 Resident) presents new photographs and ceramic sculptures as A Study of Blue Mountains, her latest solo exhibition at Lehman Maupin in New York. The show features the Norwegian Mountain series, her newest body of work to date.

On April 3, hear Verge, Remix, and Bodymusic by Sebastian Currier (1994 Fellow), a guest composer in residence at the University of Michigan, performed live by Contemporary Directions Ensemble.

The Chicago artist Lan Tuazon (2024 Affiliated Fellow) will speak at the MIT List Visual Arts Center on April 5 for the 2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability. Her panel navigates “landscapes of extraction, displacement, and ecological change.”

Classicist Rebecca R. Benefiel (2003 Fellow) collaborated with two physicians, Perry Hammond and Kent Lam, to write and publish “An Account of Roman Surgical Treatments for Ozena: Historical Review” in the journal Laryngoscope.

In the Guardian, Roberto Lugo, a ceramic artist and a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in design, emphasizes the importance of telling inclusive stories through art, highlighting how his work honors overlooked communities and challenges traditional museum narratives.

Giorgia Zanellato (2015 Italian Fellow) and Daniele Bortotto are presenting five custom-designed rooms in the Brera Design Apartment during Milan Design Week. Visits to the project, called Orizzonti, are by appointment.

On April 1 Nico Vascellari (2008 Italian Fellow) will open Pastorale, a solo exhibition of recent and previously unseen works, at Palazzo Reale di Milano’s Sala delle Cariatidi.

David M. Childs (2024 Resident, Trustee Emeritus), an architect who designed many buildings in New York—including 1 World Trade Center, Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, and Time Warner Center—with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, died on March 26 at age 83. Childs, who served two years as chair of the Academy’s Board of Trustees (2006–8), also led the centenary renovation of our McKim, Mead & White Building in 1994.