Far Afield

Rä di Martino, 2018 CRT Italian Fellow in visual art and winner of the ACACIA Prize, has a solo exhibition at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, opening on April 9.

Karl Kirchwey, 1994 Fellow and 2010–13 Heiskell Arts Director, is the editor of Poems of Rome, an anthology of verse about the Eternal City. Poets span the centuries: from Horace and Ovid to Adrienne Rich and Jorie Graham.

Doug Argue’s first solo show at Marc Strauss Gallery in New York opens on April 8. Argue was a 1998 Fellow in visual arts.

The Los Angeles Times has reviewed photographs by Catherine Wagner, a 2014 Fellow, that were inspired by Giorgio Morandi. Her exhibition at Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica ends on March 31.

A terrific San Francisco Classical Review article highlights the work of two Fellows, Doug Argue and David Lang, and two Residents, Laurie Anderson and Brenda Way.

Afro Kismet, a solo exhibition of new work by Fred Wilson (AAR Trustee), opens tonight at Pace Gallery in London.

The Archaeological Institute of America has given the 2018 James R. Wiseman Book Award to Gilbert J. Gorski (1998 Affiliated Fellow) and James E. Packer (1964 Fellow) for The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide.

The artist Rä di Martino, the current CRT Italian Fellow, has a solo show at Copperfield Gallery in London, taking place March 22–May 6. Opening reception is March 21.

Double V Gallery in Marseille is featuring five new paintings by Elliott Green, a 2012 Rome Prize Fellow, in a group exhibition titled La Cage aux Fauves.

Richard S. Weinstein, former dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning and 1991–92 Visiting Scholar, has died.

Rome: Urban Formation and Transformation by Jon Michael Schwarting (1970 Fellow) was published last year by AR+D Publishing.

Last month Stony Brook University honored composer Sheila Silver, a 1979 Rome Prize Fellow, with a concert of her compositions in New York.

Ayad Akhtar, a 2018 Resident, has won the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History for his play Junk.

Ricochet, a concerto by Andy Akiho, a 2015 Fellow in musical composition, features solos from championship-winning ping-pong players.

Abigail DeVille, a 2018 Rome Prize Fellow, has won a 2017 Biennial Grant worth $20,000 from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

Lauren Ginsberg (2018 Fellow) has won the Classical Association of the Middle West and South’s First Book Award for Staging Memory, Staging Strife: Empire and Civil War in the Octavia.

Rashwan Abdelbaki, AAR’s first Artist Protection Fund Fellow, is the subject of an exhibition at EFA Studios in New York.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has selected Huck Hodge (2011 Fellow) for the Charles Ives Living Award in Music.

The author Krys Lee, a 2015 Fellow, talks about her book How I Became a North Korean and her Rome Prize experience in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Current Rome Prize Fellow Beverly McIver will speak at Le Murate in Florence on February 6.