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Claire Dillon is the 2025 Paul Mellon Rome Prize Fellow in medieval studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where she specializes in the intersections of visual cultures, identities, and faiths in the medieval Mediterranean and their modern afterlives.

This April, the American Academy in Rome, the dynamic international community that supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together, convenes Galileo Week.

Giancarlo Tursi, a 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in modern Italian studies, spent a few moments answering a few questions from the Academy.

Curator Akili Tommasino’s research for Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now relied not only on archival access but also on the human networks fostered by the Academy.

The American Academy in Rome has posted a new collection of color photographs from the early 1960s—the Charles T. Stifter Collection—to the AAR Library’s Digital Humanities Center.

In occasione del Black History Month 2025, l’American Academy in Rome ospita il seminario interattivo The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist: Ritual Project.

As we begin this January, it feels appropriate to look back on the accomplishments of the past year and ahead to the promise of the coming one.

AAR announces a fellowship opportunity, in partnership with the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of Italy’s Ministry of Culture, aimed at advancing curatorial research and promoting Italian contemporary art on an international stage.

Volume 69 of our annual journal, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, features scholarship that spans antiquity to the modern era.

The American Academy in Rome has partnered with the Emily Harvey Foundation to create a new residency opportunity for Rome Prize Fellows in Venice, starting in summer 2025.

Visual artist Sally Smart has been awarded the Mordant Family and Creative Australia Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. 

AAR presented a screening of Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities, a documentary that delves into how leading thinkers and creators wield intellectual inquiry to shape their fields, followed by a panel discussion with several of the interviewees.

On Thursday, November 21, AAR concluded its two-event series at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York with a panel discussion on “Material Afterlives.” 

To mark the return of the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures to Rome this December, to be given by Rubina Raja starting today and continuing into next week, we are looking back at the history of the series at the American Academy in Rome.

In celebration of Arbor Day this year, the Verdi planted a beautiful cypress tree in the Triangle Garden for the children in our community to enjoy.

Anthony Acciavatti (2025 Fellow) and AAR President Peter N. Miller were two of sixteen speakers at a two-day conference hosted by the Gallerie dell’Accademia and the Warwick Venice Centre.

At last week’s New York Gala, the American Academy in Rome honored the Grammy Award–winning jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, and the visual artist Jenny Holzer with the Centennial Medal.

Last month Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana bestowed a Lifetime Achievement Medal on Michael C. J. Putnam (1964 Fellow, 1970 Resident, Life Trustee) and gave the Vergilius Prize to Joseph Farrell (2014 Resident).

Charting a vision for the future of institutional food, Mark Bittman and Kathleen Finlay will lead the next chapter of the ecogastronomic endeavor founded by Alice Waters and Mona Talbott in 2006.