Features

In remembrance of 1958 Rome Prize Fellow Ann Freeman, the Academy’s Institutional Archive is delighted to share her “A Christmas Poem” from 1956.

Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow), a musical composer and performer based in Portland, Oregon, has been nominated for three Grammy Awards this year.

Rome Work is the title of 2023 Fellow Todd Gray’s exhibition at the gallery Vielmetter Los Angeles. As the title indicates, the artist made the pieces at the Academy during his Rome Prize Fellowship, from February to July 2023.

On Italian Arbor Day, AAR plants a tree in what will become a new annual tradition.

Marla Stone was inducted into the Accademia dei Lincei on November 10.

Varying Shades of Brown is a project featuring major installations and programs across the entire campus of Brown University by the acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow and AAR Trustee).

The Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Project hosted the opening reception for the CLIMAVORE Assembly, a conference held in Rome that explores new cultural and artistic tactics for ecologically driven action and policymaking.

Valentina Follo has joined AAR’s staff on a permanent, part-time basis, as Curator of the Norton-Van Buren Archaeological Study Collection and Program Manager of the Classical Summer School, and Johanne Affricot has joined AAR as Curator-at-Large.

At AAR’s New York Gala, held on November 2, three hundred guests gathered to honor three cultural leaders who exemplify outstanding commitment to scholarship and creativity.

The musical performances in I Nostri Pini di Roma recognized the pines of Rome: the beauty they share, the symbolic force of their presence, and the shade and shadow they provide. 

Every year we award the Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize in the discipline of Renaissance and early modern studies. But who was he?

The Academy’s program director, Shawn Miller, shares his favorite things and places in Rome.

The archaeologist and Tulane University professor Allison L. C. Emmerson (2019 Fellow) will become interim Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor starting in January 2024.

The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome invites submissions for volume 69, to be published in fall 2024.

AAR has assembled a diverse array of books by or featuring our Fellows and Residents to read this fall.

Aliza Wong, now in her second full year as Director, spoke to us about what she is looking forward to this academic year, the upcoming I Nostri Pini di Roma concert, and the challenges of one-hundred-year-old plumbing.

A gathering of Fellows in New York.

We spoke to RSFP Head Chef Fausto Ferraresi, who shared updates on recent activities at the Rome Sustainable Food Project—and a recipe for Tuscan bean soup.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts opened an exhibition of the sculptor John Rhoden, the first Black visual artist to win the Rome Prize.

Please join us in congratulating the pianist, composer, and 2020 Rome Prize Fellow Courtney Bryan, who has just won a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship.

In honor of Adam D. Weinberg, AAR is sharing this short video about his thoughts on the American Academy in Rome and its community of Fellows and Residents.

In 1961, Otto Luening turned the composers’ listening room into a full-blown studio for producing electronic music.

The duo Genuardi/Ruta, consisting of visual artists Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta, returns to Rome this week to debut Luci di via, an outdoor site-specific project curated by Giuliana Benassi for Matèria.

On Tuesday evening friends of the Academy gathered for a reception at the Consulate General of Italy in New York to welcome recently appointed AAR President Peter N. Miller. 

The retrospective Philip Guston Now, opening next month at Tate Modern in London, gives us occasion to revisit the artist’s “lifelong intense romance” with Italy and his ties to the American Academy in Rome.

These museum and gallery exhibitions feature the work of Rome Prize Fellows and Residents—in some cases directly inspired or initiated during their time at the Academy.

Last week AAR President Peter N. Miller delivered his first talk to a packed lecture room at the American Academy in Rome.

This month we highlight the favorite places of our Italian Fellows, who come to AAR from across Italy and bring with them a unique perspective that enriches the AAR community. 

The Academy is grateful to reopen this month for yet another season, and to welcome our new class of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows to the Eternal City.

The Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome is a website offering nearly 1,500 digitized photographs by Ernest Nash from AAR’s Fototeca Unione.