Far Afield

At the Intersection of Two Faults, a solo exhibition of recent work by 2019 Fellow Karyn Olivier, is on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York through July 30.
 

Sometimes Sculpture Deserves a Break, a recent solo exhibition of new work by Carl D’Alvia (2013 Fellow) at Hesse Flatow in New York, “is a playful, irony-laden take on the hyper-masculine minimalist sculpture canon.”

In her new book Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire, writes Charlie Pemberton, Hérica Valladares (2009 Fellow) “has managed to reframe familiar mythological faces in such a way as to add nuance to our understanding of their Roman representation.”

The Burton Barr Phoenix Central Library in Arizona, designed by Will Bruder Architects and completed in 1995, is the winner of the 2021 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award. Bruder was a Rome Prize Fellow in architecture in 1987.

The National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts has selected Richard J. Powell (2018 Resident) to present the seventy-first A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts in spring 2022. Pamela O. Long (2004 Fellow) is Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow this fall and winter, working on Machines on Paper: From Leonardo da Vinci to Vincenzo Scamozzi. Anna Dumont (2021 Fellow) is Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow for 2021–22, continuing her dissertation on From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Textiles and Italian Women’s Labor, 1870–1945.

Brooklyn Basin Township Commons, a recently opened public space along the Oakland waterfront designed by Sarah Kuehl (2005 Fellow) and Liz Einwiller from the landscape architecture firm Einwiller Kuehl, was a 2021 Architizer A+Awards Jury Winner in the category for architecture and urban transformation.

“I basically talk about almost every single person in my life, and almost always in a way that is not fully positive,” said filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (2008 Fellow) about his yearlong podcast series, 365 Stories I Want to Tell You Before We Both Die.

Francine Prose (2006 Resident) talks about her new novel The Vixen, which explores Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the CIA, and book publishing in the 1950s, with the New York Times.

“Her fiction is rightfully praised for its structural innovation, its stylish commentary on technology and ‘the moment,’” writes Parul Sehgal in her New York Times review of Wayward, a new novel from 2009 Fellow Dana Spiotta, “but her vision for the novel is fundamentally moral, even traditional.”

Thomas Gordon Smith, a 1990 Rome Prize Fellow and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, where he was also former chair of the School of Architecture, died on June 23. He was 73 years old.

OSLAVIA - The Cave of the Past Future, a new film from Ila Bêka (2019 Italian Fellow) and Louise Lemoine that explores the interior of the inaccessible studio-home of Futurist painter Giacomo Balla and his daughters, is part of a group exhibition at MAXXI. The trailer is on YouTube.

“More and more over the years,” Christopher Cerrone (2016 Fellow) told the New York Times in a recent profile, “I’ve tried to do the same thing with rhythm and pulse that I’ve done with harmony. And I think it’s helped clarify and refine my overall compositional language.”

Tania León (1998 Resident) won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her composition Stride, which the New York Philharmonic commissioned in 2019 and premiered in February 2020.

Samuele F. S. Pardini reviews The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison for the Brooklyn Rail. The newly published book includes numerous correspondence the American author wrote during his two years as a Rome Prize Fellow in the mid-1950s.

Oxford University Press has published Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise: The Integration of Larinum into the Roman State by 2012 Fellow Elizabeth C. Robinson. The book, her first monograph, is based on the dissertation she researched during her two-year fellowship.

In a New York Times feature on “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Percussion,” the composer Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow) highlights Jason Treuting’s piece “extremes,” and the percussionist Cynthia Yeh selects “Memory Palace,” a work by 2016 Fellow Christopher Cerrone.

The photographer Catherine Opie (2021 Resident) will participate in an in-person conversation with the curator Hou Hanru tomorrow in Rome at MAXXI. The two will discuss Opie’s new Phaidon monograph, which surveys her groundbreaking career.

President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint four new members to the Commission on Fine Arts. Among the group is the architect Billie Tsien (2000 Resident and AAR Trustee Emerita).

In her Serpentine Galleries exhibition, the painter Jennifer Packer (2021 Fellow) “looks back at a history of art that has excluded and exploited Black people,” writes Naomi Polonsky for Hyperallergic, “and uses it to create works that celebrate contemporary Black life in its uniqueness.”

The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College is presenting Saved from Drowning, a solo exhibition of multimedia work by 2014 Fellow Dan Hurlin, on view through June 6.

Mary Beard (2019 Resident) will establish a £80,000 fund to support two classics students from underrepresented groups at Cambridge University upon her retirement next year. The fund will cover the £10,000-a-year living costs of two undergraduates from a minority ethnic group and low-income background, and span the duration of a four-year degree.

The artist Tomaso De Luca (2017 Italian Fellow ) has won the MAXXI Bulgari Prize 2020. His work A Week’s Notice, on view in the accompanying exhibition, was selected by the international jury for its subtle poetics, maturity, and ethical, social, and political involvement.

On Tuesday, May 18, Temple University Rome will host the virtual opening of Mapping a Friendship, an online exhibition dedicated to the work of Joyce Kozloff (2000 Fellow) and Simonetta Moro (2000 Affiliated Fellow), who met during their stay at AAR.

Catherine Bonesho (2018 Fellow) has received a 2021–22 academic year fellowship from the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan related to the study of Diversity in Second Temple Judaism. During the fellowship, she will work on her second book project, “Kings, Queens, and Caesars: Gentile Rulers in Early Jewish Literature.”

On May 8 Filippo Perocco (2009 Italian Fellow) conducted the original version of Polifonica-Monodia-Ritimica (1951) by Luigi Nono at Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, where he is currently artist in residence. Tonight is the premiere of his commissioned composition Come canto, voce. And on May 18 he will perform a piece by Salvatore Sciarrino as an organist within a larger ensemble of musicians. These concerts are part of the larger program of a new festival devoted to contemporary music.

Germane Barnes, recipient of the 2021–22 Rome Prize in Architecture, has been named winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize, a grant from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design that supports investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded research.

Sigrid Nunez (2001 Fellow) has reviewed Whereabouts by 2013 Resident Jhumpa Lahiri for the New York Review of Books. The novel is the first Lahiri has written in Italian and had translated into English.

Sanford Biggers (2018 Fellow) will show his highly anticipated monumental Oracle sculpture and other works across the Rockefeller Center campus in New York. This public art exhibition, a partnership between Rockefeller Center and the Art Production Fund, runs May 5–June 29, 2021.

Corinna Gosmaro (2020 Italian Fellow) was among sixteen artists to win an eleven-month residency at the Fiminco Foundation in Romainville, France. Her residency begins this September.

The Antiquities Coalition’s Peter Herdrich spoke to AAR’s Andrew Heiskell Arts Director Elizabeth Rodini about the incredible journey of Gentile Bellini’s celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed II.