Guggenheims and Warburgs

Benjamin Taylor ’92GSAS, an adjunct professor of writing in the School of the Arts, was named a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The trustees are responsible for selecting the recipients of the annual Guggenheim Fellowships, which celebrate those who have excelled in scholarship and the arts. Taylor received a fellowship in 2012.

David Freedberg, Columbia’s Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, is the new director of the University of London’s Warburg Institute. The Warburg Institute “exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition” and its influence on European civilization — particularly in the Renaissance. Freedberg will continue to teach at Columbia and direct the Italian Academy.