June 6, 2022 2022 Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Alumni of AAR are well represented among the 2022 American Academy of Arts and Letters award winners. Read more
June 3, 2022 Memoirs Volume 66 Published AAR has just published volume 66 of its flagship journal, the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Read more
June 1, 2022 Finding the Black Experience in Italy Rhonda Collier, the Inaugural Tuskegee University Affiliated Fellow, conducts research from the American Academy in Rome. Read more
May 27, 2022 In Memoriam: Professor Giovanni Uggeri AAR is saddened to learn of the death of Giovanni Uggeri (1965 Affiliated Fellow), an internationally renowned archeologist and scholar in the field of ancient topography. With his passing, we have lost a treasured user of our Library. Read more
May 26, 2022 AAR Announces Visionary Gift of Nearly $5 Million from the Tsao Family Foundation A visionary set of gifts by the Tsao Family Foundation will support scholars working on the historical intersection of China and Italy in arts and ideas, artists from China, as well as faculty or doctoral students from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Read more
May 24, 2022 Inaugural Fondazione Sicilia Affiliated Fellows Are Announced Congratulations to the inaugural Fondazione Sicilia Affiliated Fellows: artist duo Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta and scholar Gaia Nuccio. Read more
May 18, 2022 A Planned Gift A recent bequest intention from the Grose Family Fund will support Fellows who identify as LGBTQI+ or whose artistic or scholarly projects in Rome explore LGBTQI+ themes. Read more
May 4, 2022 From the Archives: Anna McCann Meet Anna McCann, the first American woman underwater archaeologist. Read more
April 25, 2022 Announcing the 2022–23 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. Read more
April 22, 2022 Trustees Emeriti Gather in New York AAR Trustees Emeriti came together in New York on Tuesday, April 19 for a reception with Academy Fellows. Read more
April 1, 2022 Aliza S. Wong Appointed 25th Director of the American Academy in Rome AAR is pleased to announce that Aliza S. Wong, a professor of history and interim dean of the Honors College at Texas Tech University, has been appointed to be the Academy’s 25th Director. Read more
March 31, 2022 AAR Launches on the Free Bloomberg Connects App Explore the American Academy in Rome at your fingertips on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Read more
March 10, 2022 Statement from AAR President and CEO Mark Robbins on Ukraine “The American Academy in Rome is dedicated to the open exchange of ideas as an essential part of a civil society. We condemn the invasion of Ukraine and stand in solidarity with people around the world whose liberty is at risk.” Read more
March 4, 2022 Academy Conference Examined Violence in Modern Politics across America and Europe By probing the similarities of these movements, an AAR conference on “Political Violence” deepened our understanding of historical events and gave us the context to understand current challenges facing democracy. Read more
February 7, 2022 The Legacy of Missionary Collections Is Explored at Fellow-Organized Workshop The thorny ethical issues behind missionary collections, including the question of how to—or how not to—display Indigenous objects, were the topic of a public workshop organized by Beatrice Falcucci and Gloria Bell that took place at AAR on February 1. Read more
January 21, 2022 Openness The work displayed over the years chronicles a slower openness to the full sweep of artistic inspiration Rome has to offer, as well as to a wider range of artists from the United States. Read more
January 20, 2022 AAR and NYPL Announce Collaboration to Support Global Scholarship in the Humanities The American Academy in Rome and The New York Public Library announced a new collaboration to advance scholarship in the arts and humanities and to partner on virtual and in-person programming events. Read more
December 29, 2021 From the Archives: Classical Summer School First held in 1923, the Classical Summer School was designed to give American high school Latin teachers direct experience with places in Italy associated with antiquity and return with a renewed enthusiasm for and greater understanding of their subjects. Read more
December 20, 2021 New Exhibition at the Archaeological Museum in Orbetello Showcases Images from AAR’s Archive The exhibition, called The Landscape of Cosa, tells its story using photographs from two important collections in the Academy’s Photographic Archive. Read more
November 22, 2021 Waste Not COVID-19 restrictions in Rome earlier this year led a 2021 Fellow in literature to conceive of an experimental dinner, realized in July with the Rome Sustainable Food Project, that takes overlooked and discarded ingredients as inspiration. Read more