Millions of readers in thrall to Elena Ferrante, the secretive and wildly popular Italian novelist. If they are reading Ferrante’s books in English, they are absorbing the translation work of Ann Goldstein (DG 2017). Goldstein translated “My Brilliant Friend” and the...
This Made in Italy Lab article, entitled, “Civitella Ranieri: When a Medieval Fortress Becomes An Artist Residency,” consisting of an interview with our Residency Director Diego Mencaroni, uncovers “the ancient Umbrian castle, today acting as an...
On August 12th, Joanna Klink (CRF 2012, DG 2017) launched her book “The Nightfields” in a virtual event put on by Prairie Lights Bookstore, in which 31 poets and writers read from the book’s series, “Night Sky”. Many Civitellians were...
Sonya Clark (CRF 2012) is the 2020 recipient of the $35,000 Rappaport Prize, an annual award funded by local philanthropists Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport. In Clark, a professor of art at Amherst College, the museum has chosen an artist with a deep commitment to...
The New York City Opera has announced a spring 2021 season featuring works by the two prominent American composers, both Civitellians, Ricky Ian Gordon (CRF 2009) and Anthony Davis (CRF 2011). The NYCO will first stage the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s opera...
Follow this link to vote for Kazumi Tanaka (CRF 2014)’s high line art installation proposal, Sunflower – Himawari. It is a 16 foot-tall bronze sunflower rendered with a grayscale patina and a black horsehair center. The work is inspired by two elements of a...
