Alumni News

Sally Mann '73 "Remembered Light"

Remembered Light, the newest show from photographer Sally Mann '73, will open at Gagosian Gallery in New York City on September 22nd. The show was inspired by her friendship with artist Cy Twombly, who passed away in 2011. The show includes "intimate and elegiac images, some with just the play of light on the wall and floor of [Twombly's] emptied studio."

Buzzfeed Logo "A New Leaf"

Two alumni were included in Buzzfeed's list of 21 Incredible New Books You Need to Read this Fall. A "colorful new novel" by Jonathan Lethem '86, A Gambler's Anatomy, was featured, along with Safiya Sinclair's '10 new "lyrical and provocative" book of poetry Cannibal.

Amelia Meath Sylvan Esso 鈥淣otable鈥 In NYT

Sylvan Esso, a group that includes Amelia Meath 鈥10, was featured in this week鈥檚 New York Times Playlist for their single 鈥淩adio.鈥 The playlist includes 鈥渢he week鈥檚 most notable new songs.鈥 This week鈥檚 theme: 鈥渢en tracks you may have missed this summer.鈥

Rolling Stone National Anthem Protest

Morgan Jerkins MFAW 鈥16 recently published an essay in Rolling Stone on 鈥淲hat Colin Kaepernick鈥檚 National Anthem Protest Tells Us 凯旋门官网 America.鈥 In it, she argues that 鈥淧eople aren鈥檛 merely upset because he is disrespecting the flag; they are upset because [his] anger illuminates just how divided this nation is and has always been.鈥 

Gesture Installation Rendering the Unthinkable

Gesture, a nearly 3000-part installation of small paintings by Manju Shandler 鈥95, is included in the exhibition 鈥淩endering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11鈥 at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Each painting is meant to evoke a particular victim. The show opens on September 12.