American Academy in Rome

Paintings and watercolors by Al Held, a 1981 Resident at the Academy, are on view at David Klein Gallery in Detroit through April 28.

Spring 2018 events at the American Academy in Rome!

TODAY in Rome—Annabelle Selldorf, a spring 2018 Resident and the founder of Selldorf Architects, will give aon “Public Spaces and Private Place.”

Attend in person for free or watch online at http://bit.ly/2EQuq0a .

Newly attributed Leonardo painting at the Worcester Art Museum!!!

The Guardian reports: “A small Renaissance painting owned by an American museum and not on public view for most of the past two decades has been identified as partly the work of Leonardo da Vinci.”

TODAY in Rome—Jonathan Scelsa and Jennifer Birkeland, our 2018Fellows in design, will discuss “Crossdisciplinary Vantage: Optics/Operations/Oppositions” in aRead more at http://bit.ly/2JJm7Xu.

The livestream at https://livestream.com/aarome/events/8162114 starts at 6:30 PM (Rome) and 12:30 PM (New York).

Monday in Rome—Jonathan Scelsa and Jennifer Birkeland, our 2018Fellows in design, will discuss “Crossdisciplinary Vantage: Optics / Operations / Oppositions” in aAttend in person or watch at home at https://livestream.com/aarome!

Henry A. Millon, founding dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington DC, died on April 2, 2018, at age 91. Millon was a 1960 Fellow, a 1966 Resident, and AAR Director from 1974 to 1977.

Drue Heinz, a spirited philanthropist for literature and the arts and an AAR Trustee from 2001 to 2004, died on March 30, 2018, at age 103. She endowed the Drue Heinz Librarian at the Academy, currently held by Sebastian Hierl, as well as the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature.

TODAY in Rome—Emilio Rosamilia, our Italian Fellow in ancient studies, will discuss “The Day the Greeks Went South: Cyrene and Its Inscriptions (ca. 400–150 BCE)” See http://bit.ly/2GIr3hn for more information. Livestream theat 6:30 PM (Rome) and 12:30 PM (New York) at http://bit.ly/2mi1k2p.

TODAY in Rome—the first of three seminars onValentino Pace, professor emeritus from Università degli Studi di Udine, will discuss “Issues in the Art Historical Research of Medieval Southern Italy.” See http://bit.ly/2qbV0w4 for details.

TODAY in Rome—aby Joseph Williams, our 2018Fellow in medieval studies and a Wired! at Duke collaborator, that looks closely at how a construction technique called the squinch dome developed in tandem with Mediterranean trade.

Watch the Livestream at https://livestream.com/aarome at 6:30 PM (Rome) and 12:30 PM (New York).