Alumni News

A new exhibition of the later works of Helen Frankenthaler '49 opened today at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. The show, titled Line Into Color, Color Into Line and curated by John Elderfield, includes "works where the painter was exploring the division between drawing and painting." It will run until October 29. 

Lydia Martín MFAW '16 has won Ploughshare's 2016 Emerging Writer's Contest Fiction Prize for her story "The Adjustment Act." Fiction judge Anthony Marra called it "a flat-out triumph: richly characterized, gorgeously rendered, deeply humane." Ploughshares, which is published by Emerson College, "has been committed to promoting the work of up-and-coming writers" since 1971.

After receiving honorable mention for a Golden Nica Award at the Ars Electronica festival, Heather Dewey-Hagborg ’03 discovered that more than 90 percent of the prize’s winners over its 29-year history were male. In response, Heather and other female artists developed a social media campaign—#KissMyArs—which quickly went viral.

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."

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.