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The modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, an AAR Trustee Emeritus and a 1992 Resident, has died. He was 93 years old.

Hundreds of people filled AAR’s courtyard, cryptoporticus, library, and galleries to view artists and performers showcase their work and explore this year’s theme, “Convergence.”

Lo storico ed educatore Avinoam Shalem (Resident 2016) è stato nominato 24° direttore dell’American Academy in Rome.

Convergence is the theme of the 2020 edition of Cinque Mostre, AAR’s annual collective exhibition featuring work by current Rome Prize Fellows, Italian and Affiliated Fellows, and invited artists.

Political philosopher Danielle Allen and visual artist Theaster Gates picked up on this year’s Academy theme, “Encounters,” to delve into a conversation on democracy, art, and social activism.

Michael Sovern, a law professor and former president of Columbia University who chaired the Academy’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2005, died on January 20. He was 88 years old.

Former deputy director Cristina Puglisi, who now works at ICR-ICC, a leading preservation and conservation firm, shares some of her favorite things in Rome.

Claudia Trezza spoke with Peter Benson Miller, curator of Encounters I, about his ideas for the exhibition, which investigates the enduring impact of the city of Rome as a dynamic creative laboratory through a series of interdisciplinary exchanges.

Three leaders in art, architecture, and culture—Julie Mehretu, J. Meejin Yoon, and Adam Weinberg—sat down for an incisive conversation at the American Academy in Rome last month.

The fall conference in Rome, The Academy as a Mirror of Change, explored AAR’s evolution and featured a stellar line-up of speakers celebrating 125 years of art and culture.

View photographs from the 125th Anniversary New York Gala, held at Cipriani in New York on November 6, 2019.

Hundreds of people filled the studios, gardens, and terraces at the American Academy in Rome to witness visual, musical, and literary works created by Rome Prize Fellows, Italian Fellows, and more.

AAR celebrated its fifteenth annual McKim Medal Gala at Villa Aurelia in Rome. Over five hundred guests gathered on June 5 to honor Museum of Modern Art curator Paola Antonelli, along with the award-winning film director and screenwriter Luca Guadagnino, with the McKim Medal for their exceptional contributions to the arts.

Claudia Trezza interviewed the novelist and writer Anthony Doerr, a 2005 Fellow and a 2019 Resident, a few days after his reading at Macro Asilo in Rome.

The human body has gone through a lot since the American Academy in Rome was founded more than a century ago. When the Academy first opened its doors in 1894, the Greek and Roman notion of perfect balance and chiseled beauty was still the standard for study.

To catch a glimpse of the long-lost beliefs of the ancients and their visions of the afterlife, one needs to look at the images of the gods that they painted on their pottery. This was the argument the archaeologist Thomas Carpenter made during the 2019 Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture.

AAR presenta The Academic Body, una mostra che attraversa oltre un secolo per raccontare i cambiamenti della rappresentazione del corpo nell’arte e nella società, trasformazioni che hanno segnato e attraversato la vita stessa dell’Accademia, dal 1894, anno della sua fondazione, a oggi.

Claudia Trezza recaps a recent Academy symposium titled “Water and Culture: A View from Rome.” The event kicked off with a lecture by the architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi (both 2019 Residents).

AAR is pleased to announce a new Rome Prize Fellowship this year. The Philip Guston Rome Prize in Visual Arts, established by Musa and Thomas Mayer with a $3 million gift in memory of the artist Philip Guston.

Two 2019 Residents, Giuliana Bruno and Alice Friedman, focused on the subject of surfaces for their Conversations/Conversazioni event earlier this month. Claudia Trezza offers a few thoughts about the discussion.