Features

AAR mourns the loss of Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer and our 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, who passed away on March 20.

AAR presents Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape, the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes from new vantage points.

AAR and the Society of Fellows have announced the winners of their new Venice Residency program: the architect Hsinming Fung and Mike Chin, a scholar of ancient studies.

Claire Dillon is the 2025 Paul Mellon Rome Prize Fellow in medieval studies and a PhD candidate 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.

As spring unfolds, the American Academy in Rome welcomes a distinguished cohort of scholars and artists for the second half of its 2025 fellowship season, beginning this month.

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.

For Black History Month at the American Academy in Rome, AAR Curator-at-Large Johanne Affricot has organized There’s Always More, a public program featuring screenings, conversations, lectures, and performances.

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.