May 1, 2013 Nari Ward Is Interested in the Arte Povera Movement and Artists That Use Quotidian Materials Nari Ward is the winner of the Chuck Close Rome Prize in Visual Arts and an Artist in New York. Read more
April 29, 2013 Bruce Babbitt Searches for Meaning in the Aurelian Wall Bruce Babbitt is the James Marston Fitch Historic Preservationist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and a planning consultant in Washington, DC. Read more
April 29, 2013 Elizabeth Schulte is Focused on the Technical Aspects of Printmaking and Papermaking Elizabeth Kaiser Schulte is the winner of the Booth Family Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation and the Owner/Chief Conservator of Elizabeth Kaiser Schulte Conservation of Art and Historic Artifacts on Paper in Atlanta, GA. Read more
April 25, 2013 Camille Mathieu Investigates the Interdisciplinary Work of French Painters in Napoleonic Rome Camille S. Mathieu is the winner of the Donald and Maria Cox/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (Year Two of a Two-Year Fellowship) in Modern Italian Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more
April 20, 2013 Adele Chatfield-Taylor and Diller Scofidio + Renfro Honored at AAR’s Annual Tribute Dinner The American Academy in Rome’s Annual Tribute Dinner took place at The Plaza Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, 17 April 2013. Read more
April 20, 2013 A Lecture by Barry Strauss on “Spartacus: The Man, the Myth, the Legacy” Wednesday evening’s lecture by Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell University (2013 Resident), took place in the elegant Palazzo Mattei di Giove, which is home to the Centro Studi Americani. Read more
April 16, 2013 Beth Saunders Traces the Footsteps of Italian Photographers from the 1840s and 1850s Beth Saunders is the winner of the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Read more
April 2, 2013 Stephen Greenblatt Contemplates the Enduring Power of Lucretius and his Dangerous Ideas A lecture by Stephen Greenblatt, RAAR’10, took place Wednesday evening under an auspicious full moon at the Villa Aurelia. Read more
April 2, 2013 Lucy Corin Thinks Obsessively about Space and Narrative Time Lucy Corin is the winner of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize in Literature (a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman) and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis. Read more
March 29, 2013 Abruzzo to Puglia: Fellows' Spring Trip 2013 This year the Trip’s aim was a deeper understanding of lesser-known parts of Italy and an appreciation of how culture and heritage fit – and clash – in a modern Italy. Read more
March 27, 2013 The Found Object: Jason Dodge and Martino Gamper at the AAR The most spare and conceptually elegant art show offered at the AAR in recent years was two installations by American artist Jason Dodge (in the Art Gallery) and Italian artist Martino Gamper (in the Cryptoporticus). Read more
March 27, 2013 Randall Mason Looks at Giovannoni’s Rome at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Randall Mason is the winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation and an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more
March 15, 2013 Time Present and Time Past: Scharoun Ensemble Berlin Season Five The Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (SEB) performed the work of Rome Prize winners Anthony Cheung and Jesse Jones at the Villa Aurelia on March 8, 9, and 10. Read more
March 14, 2013 Brenda Longfellow Contextualizes Recycled Statuary By Visiting the Monuments Where They Stood Brenda Longfellow is the Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize winner in Ancient Studies and an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa. Read more
March 12, 2013 Claudia Moser Studies the Archaeological Record of Ritual Sacrifice Claudia Moser is the winner of the Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a Ph.D candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. Read more
March 8, 2013 Jerome Lecturer David Mattingly Rewrites Roman North Africa The forty-first annual Jerome Lectures were packed this year as David Mattingly, professor of Roman archaeology and history at the University of Leicester, delivered a series of paradigm-busting presentations on Roman North Africa. Read more
March 6, 2013 Nicholas Blechman Discovers the Omnipresence of History and the Determination to Create Nicholas Blechman is the winner of the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design and an Art Director at The New York Times in New York City. Read more
February 15, 2013 Peter Jonathan Bell Is Driven by the Physicality of Sculpture Peter Jonathan Bell is the winner of the Robert Lehman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Read more
February 13, 2013 Sweetly Bear Down: James Siena at the AAR James Siena is the Mary Miss Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and an artist from New York City. Read more