A Discussion with Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates

Academy supporters, donors, and friends commemorated a quarter-century of fostering transatlantic bonds in the arts, scholarship, and public policy.

Three Academy alumna are on TIME's 100 list of most influential people.

The Academy congratulates spring 2023 alumna Cristina Rivera Garza.

Johannes von Moltke looks at the New Right’s efforts to shift the language of public discourse.

Mark Copelovitch is exploring the causes and consequences of the US dollar’s enduring dominance in the world economy.

Leigh Raiford is studying photographs made by Black American activists and artists who traveled the world for study, work, or movement building.

Samantha Schnee is working on a translation of "In Winter Lights," the first novel by Berlin-based Basque writer Irati Elorrieta.

Noam Lupu looks at how political violence shapes the political identities of victims and their descendants.

Former Whitney director Adam D. Weinberg is researching contemporary artists's creation of sacred spaces.

Writer Heidi Julavits attempts to redefine memoir as an act of personal, philosophical, and ideological investigation.

Political scientist Margaret Weir asks, "Why does place continue to impose burdens on opportunity?"

James Shapiro is writing a book about the only federal theater ever founded in the United States.