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More than eight hundred people passed through the American Academy in Rome’s doors for the annual Winter Open Studios.

A new photovoltaic power generation system, installed on the roof of the McKim, Mead & White Building, is producing clean energy for the Academy.

Richard Trythall, a composer and pianist who was an important figure in the American Academy in Rome’s musical history, died on December 21, 2022, at the age of 83.

Sarah Beckmann, our 2023 Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize Fellow in ancient studies, talks about her project, The Villa in Late Antiquity: Roman Ideals and Local Identities.

The American Academy in Rome has named the winners of the inaugural Getty Foundation Affiliated Fellowships: Zakarya Khelif and Emre Gönlügür.

As the holiday season fast approaches, AAR has assembled a diverse array of books by or featuring our Fellows and Residents.

A newly announced bequest intention by C. Brian Rose (1992 Fellow, 2012 Resident, and Trustee Emeritus) will support residencies across disciplines in the humanities.

This year marked the fifteen-year anniversary of the Rome Sustainable Food Project, a milestone that was celebrated at a Friends of the Academy garden party on June 12.

Nearly three hundred guests gathered at the American Academy in Rome’s New York Gala, held at Cipriani 25 Broadway on November 2.

A viral Twitter account called Weird Medieval Guys is spreading joy through the unlikely source of European medieval art.

Learning from Las Vegas gleefully pairs the capital of both Christendom and classical pieties with Sin City, in all its cheap, tawdry vulgarity. How? The authors justify Vegas first: “learning from everything” in a nonjudgmental way (initially) is “a way of being revolutionary for an architect.”

Academy President and CEO Mark Robbins announced today that he will step down at the conclusion of the academic year, in July 2023, following nearly ten years in the role.

The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce its slate of twenty Residents for the 2022–23 academic year.

The American Academy in Rome is moving its New York offices to the Dia Art Foundation building at 535 West 22nd Street in October.

Two celebrated Australian artists, Reko Rennie and Angela Valamanesh, are the latest recipients of the Mordant Family/Australia Council Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

The American Academy in Rome notes with sadness the death of Nancy Brown Negley, Trustee Emerita.

A Fellows’ Project Fund event on July 5 was dedicated to organizations that advocate for social and racial justice for migrants in Italy.

CBS Sunday Morning distilled the Academy’s essence, history, and present-day life in a five-minute television segment that aired on July 10.

The American Academy in Rome celebrates the life of the late poet Jay Hopler (2011 Fellow).

A grant from the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative will support a residency for scholars from underserved regions in the greater Mediterranean basin.

The American Academy in Rome honored curator Cecilia Alemani and the filmmaker and producer Matteo Garrone at the sixteenth McKim Medal Gala at the Villa Aurelia in Rome on June 8.

Alumni of AAR are well represented among the 2022 American Academy of Arts and Letters award winners.

AAR has just published volume 66 of its flagship journal, the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.

Rhonda Collier, the Inaugural Tuskegee University Affiliated Fellow, conducts research from the American Academy in Rome.

AAR is saddened to learn of the death of Giovanni Uggeri (1965 Affiliated Fellow), an internationally renowned archeologist and scholar in the field of ancient topography. With his passing, we have lost a treasured user of our Library.

A visionary set of gifts by the Tsao Family Foundation will support scholars working on the historical intersection of China and Italy in arts and ideas, artists from China, as well as faculty or doctoral students from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Congratulations to the inaugural Fondazione Sicilia Affiliated Fellows: artist duo Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta and scholar Gaia Nuccio. 

A recent bequest intention from the Grose Family Fund will support Fellows who identify as LGBTQI+ or whose artistic or scholarly projects in Rome explore LGBTQI+ themes.

Meet Anna McCann, the first American woman underwater archaeologist.

The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships.