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The American composer Elliott Carter’s connection with the American Academy in Rome was a long and mutually beneficial one. Carter’s recent death at the age of 103 seemed a perfect opportunity for us to ask our two current Rome Prize winners in musical composition for their thoughts about his life and musical legacy.

Emma Blake is the National Endowment for the Humanities/Phyillis G. Gordan Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Winner in Ancient Studies and an Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Patrick Oliphant is an editorial cartoonist, the winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize, and the Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

The former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and the Grammy Award–winning pianist Laurence Hobgood triumphantly found their own path and avoided the pitfalls, in performing a program entitled POEMJAZZ in the Sala Musica at the Villa Aurelia on Sunday evening, November 4.

Dominique Kirchner Reill is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Miami.

Joshua Colin Birk is the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Medieval Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Smith College.

The thirty-third edition of the annual Roman new music festival “Nuovi Spazi Musicali,” curated by composer Ada Gentile, concluded a series of five concerts with a program at the Villa Aurelia on Monday evening, October 22, 2012.

Pablo Castro Estévez is the James R. Lamantia Jr. Rome Prize Winner in Architecture and a principal at OBRA Architects in New York.

We recently sat down with current Society of Fellows web editor Pamela Keech (1982 Fellow) to discuss her role, plans for the future, and why what happens in Rome does not stay in Rome.

Almost 250 people gathered at Villa Aurelia on Monday, September 24 to celebrate what promises to be a magical year.

Sebastian Hierl, the American Academy in Rome’s newly appointed Drue Heinz Librarian of the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library, will begin his term at the end of August.

Kimberly Bowes (2006 Fellow) arrives in Rome to begin her three-year tenure as Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies on July 1.

Since 1923, the American Academy in Rome has hosted both aspiring and preeminent scholars at its Classical Summer School.

Aaron S. Allen is assistant professor of musicology in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies.

Jennifer R. Davis is assistant professor in the Department of History at the Catholic University of America and the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Medieval Studies.

The Academy kicked off the annual Trustees Week in Rome with a series of highly anticipated events from 28 May until 31 May, beginning with the 8th edition of the McKim Medal Gala.

The splendid high-ceilinged studios in AAR’s McKim, Mead & White Building and its pavilions are supposedly a legacy from the time when Fellows designed colossal or equestrian statues. Fellows don’t do that so much anymore, but the soaring spaces inside studios remain, and can be both an inspiration and a physical and psychological challenge to their inhabitants.

On Monday 28 May 2012, the American Academy in Rome awarded the McKim Medal to internationally renowned conductor, Maestro Riccardo Muti, in honor of his significant accomplishments and contributions to classical music throughout his career.

Corey Brennan (1988 Fellow) completes his term as Mellon Professor in Charge of the Humanities this month and has been an unflagging source of erudition, energy, and enthusiasm over the past three years.

Elliott Green is a painter from New York and the Jules Guerin Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts.