July 7, 2011 Remembering AAR Trustee Cy Twombly (1928–2011) Rome resident and beloved American Academy Trustee artist Cy Twombly died on July 5, 2011. He was 83. Read more
June 20, 2011 Shane Bjornlie Writes About the Intersection of Politics and Literature Shane Bjornlie is the Andrew Heiskell Post-doctoral fellow in Classical Studies. Under a different sun, in southern California, Shane is Assistant Professor of Roman and Late Antique History at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches for the Department of History at CMC and for the Intercollegiate Classics program of the Claremont Colleges consortium. Read more
June 20, 2011 AAR Honors Artist Luigi Ontani at McKim Medal Gala in Rome The American Academy in Rome held its annual McKim Medal Gala at the Villa Aurelia in Rome on May 26, 2011, in honor of Italian artist Luigi Ontani, whom the Academy named the seventh McKim Medal laureate. Read more
June 19, 2011 On Tuesday 28 June, A Book Presentation of 'Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art 1500–1900' Four years ago (19-21 June 2007), the American Academy in Rome hosted a conference co-organized by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Bibliotheca Hertziana—Max Planck Institute for Art History that explored the collecting of religious art in and of Italy. Read more
June 9, 2011 In Rome, a Conference on History and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean (15-16 June 2011) Whether it is climate, or the use and overuse of timber resources, or the extent and effects of urbanization, or a host of other issues, the history of the Mediterranean environment in antiquity is full of unresolved debates. Read more
June 2, 2011 In Rome, American and Spanish Academies Present ‘Dialogue: Two Projects of Antoni Muntadas and Giulio Squillacciotti’ Internationally-renowned artist Antoni Muntadas will bring two Janiculum neighbors together on Tuesday 7 June 2011, when the American Academy in Rome and the Real Academia de España en Roma will unite to present two Muntadas events as well as a new project by Italian artist Giulio Squillacciotti. Read more
June 1, 2011 A Whirlwind Week in Review: Annual Events in Late May (Part 1) It was five full days, but still it seemed like a whirlwind when the AAR’s Board of Trustees made their annual visit to Rome from 25 May to 29 May. Read more
May 28, 2011 The Glimpse Series: Stephanie Malia Hom Explores Mass Tourism in Rome Stephanie Malia Hom is the recipient of the 2010-2011 Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies. She arrived in Rome from the University of Oklahoma, where she is Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. Read more
May 16, 2011 From May 25 to 28, AAR Presents the Fellows’ Annual Events in the Arts: Open Studios, Reading, and Concert Three days in late May—Wednesday the 25th, Friday the 27th, and Saturday the 28th—see one of the Academy’s oldest and most consistently rewarding traditions, the annual presentation of work by current Rome Prize Fellows in the AAR’s School of Fine Arts. Read more
May 12, 2011 The Glimpse Series: Carly Jane Steinborn Is Immersed in the Visual Evidence of Ravenna and Rome Carly Jane Steinborn is the Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Winner in Medieval Studies, and one of two Fellows lucky enough to live and work at the Academy for two years. Read more
May 3, 2011 Fellows Explore Aqueducts at Vicovaro and (with AIAC) under the American Academy It may well become an annual ritual. On April 30, the archaeologist Gianni Ponti—veteran advisor to the American Academy in Rome and a dean at Rome’s IES—once again brought a somewhat incredulous group of AAR Fellows to the Roman aqueducts near Vicovaro (45 kilometers northeast of the city). Read more
April 28, 2011 Two Nights at the AAR for “X LOCUS,” a Collaborative Fellows’ Installation On Thursday, April 28, 2011, a public gathering of over one hundred people saw the cortile of the McKim, Mead & White Building at the American Academy in Rome transformed by a collaborative installation entitled X LOCUS. Read more
April 25, 2011 At the 2011–12 Rome Prize Ceremony, “Poetry, Visual Art, and Place” The American Academy in Rome held the Janet and Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony on April 14 at New York City’s Harmonie Club to announce the winners of the 2011–12 Fellowships. The ceremony was well attended by over three hundred guests, including many Academy Trustees, Fellows, and Residents. Read more
April 21, 2011 Frank O. Gehry and Paul LeClerc Honored at AAR’s Centenary Celebration Dinner The American Academy in Rome’s Centenary Celebration Dinner took place at the Plaza Hotel in New York on April 13, 2011. Read more
April 14, 2011 In Rome, A ‘Cabaret’ Celebrates the 400th Anniversary of Galileo’s Telescope on the Gianicolo The American Academy in Rome’s Casa Rustica (in the present Bass Garden) occupies the precise site where, on Thursday, April 14, 1611, Galileo made his first demonstration to a learned audience in Rome of his new invention, named on this occasion as the “telescope.” Read more
April 13, 2011 American Academy in Rome Announces the 2011–12 Rome Prize Winners The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011–12 Rome Prize. Read more
April 2, 2011 Spring Trip Takes Fellows to Three Regions of Turkey The American Academy in Rome has its fair share of traditions, but one of the most hallowed is its annual Spring Trip for Fellows. Read more
April 1, 2011 The Glimpse Series: Paul Rudy’s Rome Collaborations (so far) Paul Rudy is the recipient of the 2010-11 Elliott Carter Rome Prize in Musical Composition. He arrived in Rome last September from Kansas City where he is a Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri. Read more
March 23, 2011 In Rome, A World Premiere Reading of Nobel Laureate and AAR Resident Derek Walcott’s ‘Moon-Child (Ti Jean in Concert)’ On Monday 4 April at 9 PM, the Sala Aurelia at the American Academy’s Villa Aurelia will be transformed into a theater space and will resonate with the sights and sounds of the Caribbean, as Nobel Laureate and William B. Hart Poet-in-Residence Derek Walcott leads a cast including actors Wendell Manwarren, Giovanna Bozzolo, and Dean Atta in the world premiere reading of his new play Moon-Child (Ti Jean in Concert). Read more
March 18, 2011 On 7 and 14 April 2011, Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Galileo on the Gianicolo To mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first demonstration of his telescope on the site of the Casa Rustica, the Academy is offering three events, starting on Thursday 7 April 2011 (5 PM), with an installment of the AAR’s “Conversations That Matter” series. Read more