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Arts & Letters

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Visit École française de Rome at the Palazzo Farnese and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and discover rare books with Sebastian Hierl, Drue Heinz Librarian at the American Academy in Rome. Hierl holds an MA and PhD in comparative literature from the University of South Carolina and a master’s in library science from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Visit the collections of Claudia and Enrico Consolandi and Valeria Napoleone in Milan with Ilaria Puri Purini. The collections focus on Italian art since the 1950s with works by Manzoni, Agnetti, Fontana, and works by women-identifying artists. Pieces from both collections are on loan to the Academy’s exhibition Artists Making Books. Puri Purini is an historian, curator, and scholar who most recently worked as a curator at the Contemporary Art Society in London.

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Have an exclusive, guided encounter with Shakespeare’s First Folio, the first published collection of his plays, and other treasures in Harvard’s Houghton Rare Book Library and Theater Collection with Stephen Greenblatt. Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and author of fourteen books about Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture, literature of travel and exploration, religion and literature, literature and anthropology, and literary and cultural theory.

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Two VIP tickets to Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival, May 2–4, 2025 in Brooklyn, NY, with access to concerts and invitations to special events, and an exclusive visit with Bang on a Can co-founder and co-artistic director David Lang, 1991 Fellow and 2017 Resident. Lang is a Professor of Music Composition at the Yale School of Music and is a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winning composer. Featuring 50+ concerts, Long Play showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn—with performances at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Roulette, Public Records, BRIC, The Space at Irondale, The Center for Fiction, plus outdoor events and more.

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2024 Residents Adam Yarinsky and Stephen Cassell, co-founders of Architecture Research Office (ARO), will guide you through their restoration of 101 Spring Street, Donald Judd’s studio and home. This project involved the comprehensive renovation of the 19th-century cast-iron warehouse where the artist lived and worked and preserves his permanently installed spaces and enables the public to experience them as he intended. Founded in 1993, ARO has earned over one hundred design awards including the 2020 Firm Award by the American Institute of Architects—the highest honor given to any architecture practice, the AIA New York State Firm of the Year Award, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture.

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Tour The Met’s Roman, Greek, and Etruscan collections on a guided tour with C. Brian Rose, renowned archaeologist and 1992 Fellow and 2012 Resident. Rose is the James B. Pritchard Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has concentrated on the political and artistic relationship between Rome and the provinces and on the monuments of Troy during the Classical periods.

In the Studio

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Join artist and musician Laurie Anderson, 2006 Resident, for a first-hand look at her process at her studio in Tribeca. Anderson is an avant-garde artist, musician, and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. She is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several musical devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows, some of which she will demonstrate during the visit.

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Experience Charbrook, the farm and rural studio of the landscape architecture practice, STIMSON, with 2024 Fellow in Landscape Architecture, Lauren Stimson, located in Princeton, MA. Your day will begin in the field with a tour of their plant nursery and greenhouse, followed by a farm to table lunch from their gardens, and end with you participating in a design charrette in their grange hall along with her client, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Stimson’s work explores forgotten histories, horticultural spontaneity, and ultimately emotional response to landscape experience. Recent projects include the Comprehensive Plan at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Artists’ Trail at the Florence Griswold Museum, Phil Hardberger Park, and the Lyceum and Student Center at Amherst College.

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Tour the Brooklyn Studio of a 2024 Fellow in Visual Arts Kamrooz Aram. Aram’s work disrupts the false opposition between ornament and abstraction, and challenges ornament’s relegation to discourses of criminality and excess. In his exhibitions, he stages an encounter between the Euro-American avant-garde and non-western forms of abstraction, interrogating the boundaries between art, artifact, and modes of display. Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 and MFA from Columbia University in 2003.

Food & Wine

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Dinner for four with wine pairings at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA, with a visit by Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse and the Rome Sustainable Food Project, and four cookbooks signed by Alice.

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Dinner for four at Ci Siamo with a seasonal menu prepared by Chef Hillary Sterling, with handpicked wine selections by Danny Meyer and priority booking through his office.

Artwork

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bookweight vv
archival inkjet print
Unframed
44" x 34" | 111.76 cm x 86.36 cm
Edition of 10
Courtesy of Ann Hamilton Studio

Live Auction

2017 Resident, pianist, composer, and multimedia artist Jason Moran invites you to his Stamford, CT studio that is a replica of his workspace at the Academy. The visit will include a short performance, a look at Moran’s drawings, and a tour of his jazz archive.

Behind the scenes visit to see the excavators at work to uncover life on the margins of the ancient city, guided by Roman archaeologist Allison Emmerson. Emmerson is an archaeologist who specializes in the study of cities. She is particularly interested in the “marginal” aspects of ancient urbanism, not only literal city edges and the activities they attracted, such as waste management and the treatment of the dead, but also the people who have been marginalized both in ancient life and in modern reconstructions of it, including women, the enslaved, and the subelite. Her first book, Life and Death in the Roman Suburb, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020 and was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America’s James R. Wiseman Book Award in 2022.

Winemaker Alessia Antinori invites you for a one-night stay and wine-pairing lunch at the Tenuta Principe Alberico, located just outside Rome in the idyllic Lazio countryside. Enjoy a private tour of Antinori nel Chianti Classico Winery followed by an exclusive tour of the famed Tignanello Estate cellar and an exquisite lunch with wine pairings in the private Antinori family Villa Tignanello.

Raffle

Your donation of $500 or more makes you eligible to win a prize drawing for a wheel of Trentingrana Aged Mountain Cheese. It is described as having complex fragrances and flavors, herbaceous dominant notes, with hints of caramel and a gentle astringency. Produced by Montitrentini in Trentino Alto Adige, this cheese is aged 30 months and weighs approximately 80 lbs.

Contributions directly fund the work of the American Academy in Rome, making possible unparalleled opportunities for work across disciplines, conventions, and questions. At a time when societies face complex challenges, the Academy is a crucial generator of new ideas.

Unless otherwise noted, scheduling for each experience is subject to availability. Participants must be in touch with the Development Office at least three months in advance of their desired date to coordinate the experience. Packages must be used within one year of purchase.