Features

At last week’s New York Gala, the American Academy in Rome honored the Grammy Award–winning jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, and the visual artist Jenny Holzer with the Centennial Medal.

Last month Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana bestowed a Lifetime Achievement Medal on Michael C. J. Putnam (1964 Fellow, 1970 Resident, Life Trustee) and gave the Vergilius Prize to Joseph Farrell (2014 Resident).

Charting a vision for the future of institutional food, Mark Bittman and Kathleen Finlay will lead the next chapter of the ecogastronomic endeavor founded by Alice Waters and Mona Talbott in 2006.

Historically, Rome Prize Fellows have gathered around the table to play a specific variation of pool known as “cowboy”: a combination of carom and pocket billiards using four balls.

AAR mourns the loss of the artist and philanthropist Cynthia Hazen Polsky, who passed away on October 22.

The artists Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow) and Alex Katz (1984 Resident) are among the recipients of the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts, to be presented today at the White House by President Joseph R. Biden. 

AAR invites applications for a pilot Rome Prize dedicated to the Environmental Arts & Humanities, designed specifically for collaborative efforts.

Peter N. Miller’s “‘The History of Rain and Fine Weather’ Revisited: The View from the Top of the Gianicolo” kicked off the new fellowship year at the American Academy in Rome.

The MacArthur Foundation has just awarded Tony Cokes, a celebrated video artist and AAR’s 2023 Carla Fendi Rome Prize Fellow in Art and Technology, with a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship.

In this interview, Ilaria Puri Purini reflects on how today’s artists continue to find inspiration in past publishing practices while also embracing contemporary methods of dissemination.

Notes from Rome—featuring the works of four composers performed by the Longleash ensemble and one sung by its composer—offered a vibrant dialogue between contemporary creative voices and the rich tradition of Italian influences.

In September 1974, AAR piloted a language and cultural orientation program for new Rome Prize Fellows, in partnership with the University of Siena.

The artist Rick Lowe, designer Sheila Bridges, medievalist Geraldine Heng, and classicist Patrice Rankine join nine other distinguished AAR Residents from the arts and humanities for the 2024–25 academic year.

AAR invites applications for the annual Rome Prize competition. Each year, fellowships are given to approximately thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence in their fields.

The editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome invites submissions for volume 70, to be published in autumn 2025.

This week the Academy welcomes the newest cohort of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows to the Eternal City.

The American Academy shares an early preview of our upcoming fall programming in Rome and New York.

A PhD candidate at the University of Delaware, Gabriella L. Johnson is completing her dissertation on how people in the early modern period perceived and engaged with aquatic nature through coral, shells, and marine fossils.

A new book from Rizzoli posthumously surveys the arc of 1985 Fellow Antoine Predock’s life and career.

Shruti Swamy, our 2024 Rome Prize Fellow in Literature, is thinking expansively about motherhood and caregiving while working on her novel, Margret and Vishnu.