Far Afield

Tomorrow the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, reopens after a four-year renovation with gardens designed by OLIN, headed by Laurie Olin (1974 Fellow, 1990 and 2008 Resident) and galleries by KieranTimberlake, led by Stephen J. Kieran (1981 Fellow) and James Timberlake (1983 Fellow).

A Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow) survey, Remember to Dream, opening on June 22 at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art, offers “seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice.”

Linda Pollak (2004 Fellow), a founding partner of Marpillero Pollak Architects, has received an honorary membership in the American Society of Landscape Architects.

The next AZURE Talk, taking place on June 20 at George Brown College in Toronto, features the acclaimed landscape architect Julie Bargmann (1990 Fellow), founder of D.I.R.T. Studio, who will deliver a presentation on her inspiring career.

Anthony Cutler (1992 Resident), an expert in Byzantine ivory carvings and the Evan Pugh University Professor Emeritus of Art History at Pennsylvania State University, died on May 16, 2024. He was 90 years old.

Nicholas Terpstra (2019 and 2023 Affiliated Fellow), professor of history at the University of Toronto and a specialist in Renaissance politics, religion, gender and charity, will join his school’s Trinity College as provost and vice chancellor.

Tomorrow Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow) and the ensemble Imani Winds will release BeLonging, a recording whose music was inspired by the sounds of immigrants being held at a Brooklyn detention center in 2019.

On June 16 the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham will present the world premiere of Invisible Angels, a composition for unaccompanied choir by Mark Kilstofte (2003 Fellow), at Duke University Chapel. Admission to the concert, titled What the Earth Says, is free.

Today Harvard University Press publishes a fresh rendition of Cicero’s Fragmentary Speeches, edited and translated by Jane W. Crawford (1982 Fellow) and Andrew R. Dyck.

The first of four summer open houses for Treaties on De-Fences, an exhibition by Jorge Otero-Pailos (2022 Resident), takes place on June 12 at the National Museum of American Diplomacy in Washington, DC.

Lyle Ashton Harris (2001 Fellow) spoke to Ryan McGinley about art, activism, and his newly opened exhibition, Our first and last love, at the Queens Museum in New York. The interview was published by Interview.

The artist Franc Palaia (1986 Fellow) will show multimedia collages in Urban Cuba- Cuba Urbano, his solo exhibition at Changolife Arts in Beacon, New York, on view until August 31.

Opening today, Singularities gathers paintings by our 1949 Fellow and 1971 Resident Philip Guston. The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich features a tour led by Musa Mayer, the artist’s daughter and president of the Guston Foundation.

Today the conservator and author Rosa Lowinger (2009 Fellow) will speak on a panel addressing “Touchstones of Identity: Safeguarding Our Cultural DNA” at the Smithsonian’s American Latino Museum in Washington, DC.

A survey of work by Christopher Wool (1990 Fellow) from the past decade, the largest since 2014, will run through July 31, 2024. The show, organized by Wool with curator Anne Pontégnie, takes up the entire unoccupied nineteenth floor of 101 Greenwich Street in New York’s financial district.

The photographer Allen Frame (2018 Fellow) joins Jeanine Oleson (2024 Fellow) and Gabriele Giugni at Spazio Supernova, a three-year cultural project based in Trastevere, to read from Sounds in the Distance by David Wojnarowicz.

The Academy’s interim Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor, Allison Emmerson (2019 Fellow), will appear on the next episode of Mary Beard’s BBC podcast Being Roman with Mary Beard. The episode, titled “Three Lovers and a Funeral,” airs on Tuesday, June 4.

This week Cambridge University Press publishes Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure between Italy and Egypt, a new book from Joseph John Viscomi (2015 Fellow).

Northwestern University has honored the art historian Rebecca Zorach (2021 Resident) with its Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award.

National Black Theatre will stage The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout at the Kennedy Center Opera House on June 1. The program includes 2020 Fellow Courtney Bryan’s composition Sanctum.