Keeril Makan (CRF 2006) has recently been awarded the Luciano Berio Rome Prize in musical composition from the American Academy in Rome. He will live in Rome for one year beginning September 2008. He is the Assistant Professor of Music, Music and Theater Arts Section, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.
Keeril states "The work that I propose to create while at the American Academy in Rome will be a large-scale chamber opera. This work questions the assumption that if systems of nature can be technologically replicated the result will be positive universal progress, independent of the cultural and political climate in which the technology was conceived. The unexpected impact (both positive and negative) of technology's actual relationship to contemporary society is the focus of this work."

ALSO: Tzadik has just released the debut album by Keeril Makan (CRF 2006) In Sound, featuring the Kronos Quartet and Paul Dresher Ensemble Elector-Acoustic Band. www.keerilmakan.com

The Des Moines Art Center presents World Histories, an international group exhibition.

May 16, 2008 – August 31, 2008
Anna K. Meredith Gallery


Artists include El Anatsui (CRF 2001) (Ghana), Sonny Assu (Canada), Heri Dono (Indonesia), Dario Escobar (Guatemala), Yoko Inoue (CRF 2008) (Japan), Shi Jinsong (China), Mustafa Maluka (South Africa), Rachael Rakena (New Zealand), Katrin Sigurdardottir (Iceland), Jesse Small (U.S.), and Angela Strassheim (U.S.).
http://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/ex_meredith.html

The St. Louis New Music Circle has appointed composer/performer Tom Hamilton (CRF 2005) to a two year residency as part of their Collaborating Artists Manifest Adventure (CAMA) initiative. Hamilton will develop large-scale works in each year that will integrate the creative work of St. Louis artists with his own electroacoustic environments.
www.newmusiccircle.org

Gouches, Paintings by Judith Linhares will be shown at the Mid-Manhattan Library in New York until August 21, 2008.

There will also be an Artist Dialogue with Tom Huhn on May 19th at 6:30 pm at the same location. Judith Linhares (CRF 2006) will do a slide presentation in conjunction with the exhibition.
www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml

George E. Lewis (CRF 1998) has just finished the book he has been working on for over 10 years about the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. "Power Stronger Than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and Experimental Music" will be out in May 2008 from University of Chicago Press. (www.press.uchicago.edu) Among it's many members are Lewis, Wadada Leo Smith (CRF 2003) and Henry Threadgill (CRF 2001). www.aacmchicago.org

Third Person Singular is the title of the exhibition currently on view at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., with paintings by Amy Sillman (CRF 1999) through July 6, 2008. The show will travel to Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, and open on July 19 through January 4, 2009.
www.sikkemajenkinsco.com

This year's Pulitzer Prize in music, "for distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the US during the year", was recently awarded to David Lang (CRF 2003) for The Little Match Girl Passion, a piece commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corp. and the Perth Theater and Concert Hall. It premiered in October of 2007 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York.

The Year She Disappeared by Ann Harleman (CRF 2007) has just been released by University of Texas Press as part of the James Michener Fiction Series. The book relays "the harrowing adventures of a woman who kidnaps her endangered granddaughter and goes into hiding"...
www.annharleman.com

MASS MoCA, in North Adams, Mass., recently opened it's exhibition EASTERN STANDARD: Western Artist in China that includes multi-media work by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (CRF 2004), and Lana Lin (CRF 2003). Also included are artists from Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Sweden, and the United States ­ that are engaged with China on a variety of levels. Many have had lengthy residencies, some have permanent studios there, others have made multiple visits; all reveal their unique perspective on the subject of China and its fast and new development.
www.massmoca.org.

We are delighted to announce the new Civitella Ranieri Fellows in Music.

The awardees, who were juried in November 2007, will spend six weeks in residence at the Center in either 2008 or 2009.

Linda BOUCHARD, Canada/USA
Richard CAUSTON, UK
Beth CUSTER, USA
Michael DAUGHERTY, USA
Tansy DAVIES, UK
Jonathan DOVE, UK
Søren Nils EICHBERG, Germany / Denmark
Ricky Ian GORDON, USA
Annie GOSFIELD, USA
Erik GRISWOLD, USA / Australia
Scott JOHNSON, USA
Joelle LÉANDRE, France
Jacqueline LEGGATT, Canada
José Javier MALDONADO Torres, Mexico/Italy
James MOBBERLY, USA
Thomas AGERFELDT OLESEN, Denmark
Gabriela ORTIZ, Mexico
Milind Atchut RAIKAR, India
David RAKOWSKI, USA
Carol ROBINSON, USA/France
Francis SILKSTONE, UK
Øyvind TORVUND, Norway
Tom VARNER, USA
Jason YARDE, UK

Emily Jacir (CRF 2009) is one of six finalists for the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize. Given every two years to an artist who the jury decides has made an important contribution to contemporary art, the coveted prize is worth $100,000 this year. Emily lives in both New York and Ramallah on the West Bank, and works with photography, video, sculpture and drawings.
The winner will be announced in the fall and given a show at the Guggenheim Museum with a catalogue.
www.guggenheim.org

Daughter's Of The North is a new novel by Sarah Hall (CRF 2008) just published by Harper Perennial. Here are the cities where Sarah will do readings:

Boston

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
7:00 PM Reading and Signing HARVARD CO-OP
Harvard Co-Op
1400 Mass AVE
Cambridge, MA 02238


New York

Thursday, April 10, 2008
7:00 PM Reading and Signing BARNES & NOBLE
396 Ave of the Americas (at 8th Street)
New York, NY 10011

Sunday, April 13, 2008
6:00 PM Joint Reading with Owen Sheers MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOKSELLERS
52 Prince ST
New York, NY 10012


Charlotte

Monday, April 14, 2008
7.00 PM JOSEPH BETH CHARLOTTE
4345 Barclay Downs Drive
Charlotte, NC 28209


Raleigh

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
7:00 PM Reading and Signing REGULATOR BOOKSHOP
720 9th ST
Durham, NC 27705


Durham

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
7:00 PM Reading and Signing MCINTYRE'S
220 Market St.


Booktrust, an independent charity for the promotion of literature located in the UK, announced in November that the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for 2006/7 was awarded to Sarah Hall (CRF 2007) for her novel The Carhullan Army. Published by Faber and Faber, this is her third novel. For more information, visit www.booktrust.org.uk.