Far Afield

The Cultural Landscape Foundation has awarded the inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize to Julie Bargmann (1990 Fellow). The biennial prize includes a $100,000 award and two years of public engagement activities focused on the laureate’s work and landscape architecture more broadly.

Next month New Amsterdam will release Before and After, a new album from NOW Ensemble, which is devoted to the work of Sean Friar (2012 Fellow), who first conceived the album during his time in Rome. Presale has started, and the first single “Rally” is available.

How did Europe’s oldest political institution come to grips with the disruptive new technology of print? Margaret Meserve (2007 Fellow) explores the question in her new book, Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome.

Hauser & Wirth in New York is presenting Philip Guston 1969–1979, an exhibition of breakthrough figurative paintings from this 1949 Rome Prize Fellow and 1971 Resident. The show, with works drawn from the final decade of his career, is on view through October 30.

A two-museum retrospective of work by Jasper Johns (1973–76 Trustee) has opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Brad Kessler, a 2009 Fellow in literature, talks to WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s podcast The Conversation about his newly published novel, North.

Black History Month Florence, led by AAR advisor Justin Randolph Thompson, has opened a new physical space to continue its work hosting programs, exhibitions, libraries and archives, and other forms of creative research.

Three New York institutions—Magazzino Italian Art, the Italian Cultural Institute, and NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò—are collaborating to present Viandante, a solo exhibition of work by 2016 Italian Fellow Namsal Siedlecki. The show, his first in the city, runs from October 29 to December 4.

Katie Larson (2016 Fellow) has been appointed the 2021–22 scholar in residence at Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York, where she will lead tours of the permanent collection and special exhibitions, organize the annual spring lecture series, and contribute to the museum’s curatorial and public programming.

David Adjaye (2016 Resident) and Theaster Gates (2020 Resident) are part of a four-person team that won a competition to redevelop Canning Dock in Liverpool, England. Their project, part of a ten-year plan to transform the city’s waterfront, aims to bring the history of the transatlantic slave trade into the public realm.

Igor Santos, our current Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow, has received the 2021 Busoni Composition Prize, presented every two to three years to young emerging composers.

Lauren Ginsberg (2018 Fellow), associate professor of classical studies in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University, has earned tenure at her school.

Anthony Doerr, a 2005 Rome Prize Fellow in literature and a Resident in 2019, talks to the Guardian about his new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land.

A New York Times article on “When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear” features the experiences of 1952 Rome Prize Fellow Ulysses Kay in Italy and Soviet Russia.

Michael Young (2020 Fellow) has published the book that he worked on during his time in Rome. Reality Modeled after Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image, new from Routledge, explores architecture’s entanglement with contemporary image culture.

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art by 2000 Italian Fulbright Fellow Simonetta Moro, published this summer by Routledge, defines a new cartographic aesthetic as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art.

Katherine Balch, a 2021 Rome Prize Fellow in musical composition, will join the faculty of the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in spring 2022.

“I have a funny relationship to the idea of realism,” Alexandra Kleeman told the New York Times when she was in Rome earlier this summer. The new novel from this 2021 Fellow, titled Something New Under the Sun, has just been published by Hogarth Books.

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.”