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Last week the American Academy in Rome and the Casa delle Letterature collaborated once again, presenting on this occasion a lively panel discussion with authors André Aciman (2014 Resident) and Giorgio Van Straten.

A new exhibition dedicated to American artist and photographer Grear Patterson opened last Wednesday at the AAR Gallery.

Since the Rhode Island School of Design’s establishment of the European Honors Program in September 1960, there has been a bond of mutual purpose connecting the Academy and EHP. 

On September 22, Villa Aurelia drew a full house to hear Andrea Carandini, president of the Fondzione Ambiente Italiana, speak about the future of the organization as an Italian institute dedicated to the oversight of Italian art, nature, and culture.

Every autumn the American Academy in Rome welcomes new Fellows and Residents to the start of the year with a gathering of the wider Rome community.

The Visiting Artists and Scholars Program provides artists and scholars of any nationality the opportunity to participate in the interdisciplinary and intellectual community of the American Academy in Rome. 

This year the AAR established an Affiliated Fellowship in association with the Community Colleges Humanities Association. 

The American Academy in Rome celebrated its tenth annual McKim Gala last month on a picture-perfect spring evening.

Having served as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies for the past two years, Kimberly Bowes (2006 Fellow) now becomes the twenty-second Director of the American Academy in Rome.

On Friday evening the AAR community gathered for a splendid barbecue in Bass Garden in honor of Christopher Celenza (1994 Fellow).

View photographs from the 2016 McKim Medal Gala in New York.

On June 3rd the Academy welcomed Alumni and their families back for a Reunion to celebrate the centenary of the Academy’s consolidation on the Janiculum Hill, organizing a week of special tours, a symposium on the future of the arts and humanities, an exhibition dedicated to the architectural history of the Academy Main Building, the annual Fellows’ Reading and Open Studios, the McKim Medal Gala and several informal opportunities to reconnect.

Last week the Academy marked the close of an academic cycle and the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the McKim, Mead & White Building in the company of Trustees, Fellows, Residents, friends, and returning Alumni.

An encounter with Rome represents now, as it has done since the American Academy’s inception, something unique: a chance for American artists and scholars to spend significant time interacting and working with each other in one of the oldest, most cosmopolitan cities in the world.

An image of the skyline of Old Cairo flashes on the screen. “Islamic? Fatimid? Mamluk? Egyptian? How would you categorize these buildings?” the conservation specialist Dina Bakhoum queries the assembled group.

Beautiful weather enticed an especially large crowd to turn out for the opening of the AAR Gallery’s latest exhibition.

Addressing a crowded AAR Lecture Room, James Hankins (1982 Fellow) of Harvard University gave two parallel accounts about the recovery of ancient Greek and Latin sources in the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of Renaissance ideas on the Roman republic from the late fourteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century.

Gabrielle Piedad Ponce is the winner of the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize and is a doctoral candidate at The Johns Hopkins University.

On an evening in February, photography students and faculty from Cornell in Rome headed up the Janiculum Hill from the center of the city to attend a private lecture at the studio of visual artist Catherine Wagner at the American Academy in Rome.

In his concert-lecture entitled, “Da Dove Viene La Black Art?” Derrell Acon combines song, poetry, literary quotation, and instrumentals in asking audiences to reflect with him on the origin and character of black art in America.