On March 27 Kate Soper (2024 Fellow) will present Ipsa Dixit—a chamber music theater piece for voice, flute, violin, and percussion that explores music, language, and meaning—at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, joins Claudia Durastanti (2015 Italian Fellow) and Andrea Romanzi for a conversation at Parco della Musica in Rome exploring literature, language, and silence.
On March 25, Erica Moretti (2024 Fellow) will moderate a Montclair State University event featuring Maria Laurino, who is speaking about her latest book, The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land without Choice.
The London Review of Books has published two poems written by Paula Bohince (2022 Affiliated Fellow) in its current issue. Their titles are “Ecologic” and “Milk Music.”
On March 21 Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow) will convene Monumental Concerns, a full-day program at the Museum of Modern Art in New York exploring the complex landscape of contested memorial sites and monuments.
A sculpture by Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta (2023 Italian Fellows) finds its way to the cover of the Italian art magazine ArteeCritica. Daniela Bigi interviews the artist duo in the issue.
Alexa Vaughn (2023 Fellow) will present her continuing research on “DeafSpace / DeafScape as Methodology: A Case Study in Cripping the Design Process” at CripTech Creativity: Rethinking Access through Art and Technology, a full-day workshop taking place at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz on March 22.
The New York Times praises Meanwhile, directed by Catherine Gund (2025 Resident), for its lyrical approach to documentary filmmaking, blending art, sound, and history into a meditative exploration of Black resilience and survival.
Participants in the Medieval Academy of America’s one hundredth annual meeting, taking place March 20–22 at Harvard University, include Joshua Birk (2013 Fellow), Denva Gallant (2023 Fellow), Michael McCormick (2017 Resident), and William Chester Jordan (2018 Fellow).
On March 16, Mabel O. Wilson (2022 Resident) will deliver the second of four talks in the 74th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
From March 14 to 16, William Kentridge (2011 and 2016 Resident) will present the first Bay Area performance of a chamber opera, titled The Great Yes, The Great No, at Cal Performances in Berkeley, California.
KieranTimberlake, the architectural firm established in 1984 by Stephen Kieran (1981 Fellow) and James Timberlake (1983 Fellow), has transitioned from a founder-led partnership to a fully employee-owned corporation.
Dietrich Neumann (2014 Resident) has won the 2025 PROSE Award in architecture and urban planning from the Association of American Publishers for his book Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time, published by Yale University Press.
A Hyperallergic review of Paint Me a Road Out of Here explores a documentary by Catherine Gund (2025 Resident) on Faith Ringgold’s 1972 Rikers Island mural, tracing its creation, displacement, and restoration as a powerful symbol of resilience and hope.
On March 10 and 11, Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) and others will read from the French translation of her Après Sappho at La Maison de la Poésie in Paris. The event highlights the work’s choral storytelling and feminist legacy.
David Nirenberg (2021 Resident) will deliver the Clark Horowitz Annual Lecture in Religion at Pomona College in California on March 10, speaking on “History as a Resource in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”
Jana Dambrogio (2008 Fellow) and Daniel Starza Smith’s new book from MIT Press, Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter, explores the art of securing messages through intricate folds and seals, revealing a rich history of document security before modern envelopes.
John Delury (2024 Fellow) has won a 2025 Melvin MS Goo Writing Fellowship, which supports individual Chinese or American journalists, authors, or writers for projects that strengthen understanding between these two countries.
A Composer Portraits concert for Miya Masaoka (2023 Fellow) at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre will feature the world premiere of her new work, Into the Landscape of the Shaking Inner Chôra.
Wangechi Mutu (2019 Resident) will lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago on March 6 in conjunction with an exhibition, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, that includes her work.
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