Richard Rezac’s first solo museum show in Chicago since 1990 opens on April 21 at The University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society. Rezac was a 2007Fellow in visual arts.
Paintings and watercolors by Al Held, a 1981 Resident at the Academy, are on view at David Klein Gallery in Detroit through April 28.
Architectural Digest has identified the Marchesi Antinori Chianti Classico Cellar, owned by AAR Trustee Alessia Antinori, as one of “16 Spectacular Green Roofs around the World”!
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.”
TOMORROW 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 or watch online at http://bit.ly/2EQuq0a.
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).
The American Academy in Rome seeks a development intern in the New York office for summer 2018. Learn more at http://bit.ly/2J1jaQZ.
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!
The American Academy in Rome announces the winners of the 2018–19 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships!!!
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.
Tonight’s Rome Prize Ceremony in New York can be live streamed at bit.ly/2mi1k2p, starting at 6:30 PM.
After the 2018–19 Rome Prize and Italian Fellows are announced, we will feature a conversation between the visual artist Ann Hamilton and AAR president Mark Robbins.
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.
The American Academy in Rome will announce the winners of the 2018–19 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships on Thursday evening, April 12.
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.
Ra Di Martino, our 2018 CRT Italian Fellow in visual arts and winner of the ACACIA Prize, has a solo exhibition at the 900 museo del novecento in Milan, opening on April 9.
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.
Italy’s far-right Lega party, which won almost 18 percent of the vote in the general election on 4 March and could form part of the next coalition government, wants to turn a former Fascist party headquarters in Como, in the Lombardy region, into northern Italy’s biggest museum of modern art, architecture, and design.
The Art Newspaper has the full story: http://bit.ly/2IqXc9K.
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).
Karl Kirchwey, a 1994 Fellow in literature and the Academy’s 2010–13 Heiskell Arts Director, is the editor of “Poems of Rome,” an anthology of verse about the Eternal City, published by Penguin Random House. The book is out now!
Wednesday in Rome—aby Joseph Williams, 2018Fellow in medieval studies, will look closely at the circulation and change of a particular constructional solution—the squinch dome—and its relationship to the geography of road networks, travel routes, and patronage on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
Attend in person or watch at livestream.com/aarome!
AAR News
Architectural Digest has identified the Marchesi Antinori Chianti Classico Cellar, owned by AAR Trustee Alessia Antinori, as one of “16 Spectacular Green Roofs around the World.”

Rä di Martino, 2018 CRT Italian Fellow in visual art and winner of the ACACIA Prize, has a solo exhibition at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, opening on April 9.

Karl Kirchwey, 1994 Fellow and 2010–13 Heiskell Arts Director, is the editor of Poems of Rome, an anthology of verse about the Eternal City. Poets span the centuries: from Horace and Ovid to Adrienne Rich and Jorie Graham.

Doug Argue’s first solo show at Marc Strauss Gallery in New York opens on April 8. Argue was a 1998 Fellow in visual arts.

The Los Angeles Times has reviewed photographs by Catherine Wagner, a 2014 Fellow, that were inspired by Giorgio Morandi. Her exhibition at Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica ends on March 31.

A terrific San Francisco Classical Review article highlights the work of two Fellows, Doug Argue and David Lang, and two Residents, Laurie Anderson and Brenda Way.

Afro Kismet, a solo exhibition of new work by Fred Wilson (AAR Trustee), opens tonight at Pace Gallery in London.

The Archaeological Institute of America has given the 2018 James R. Wiseman Book Award to Gilbert J. Gorski (1998 Affiliated Fellow) and James E. Packer (1964 Fellow) for The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide.

Rä di Martino, the current CRT Italian Fellow, has a solo show at Copperfield Gallery in London, taking place 22 March–6 May 2018. Opening reception is 21 March.
