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The American Academy’s fall 2010 series of walks and site visits for Fellows concluded on Tuesday 21 December, with a behind-the-scenes look at Rome’s most elegant public library, the Biblioteca Casanatense on Via S. Ignazio.

The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, has selected Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome and a 1984 Fellow, to receive its 2010 Vincent Scully Prize, one of the most significant distinctions in the architecture and design fields.

Best wishes from the Fellows, Staff, and Trustees of the American Academy in Rome.

Auguri dai Borsisti, dal Personale e dal Consiglio di amministrazione dell'American Academy in Rome.

The Russian visual artists Ivan Govorkov and Elena Gubanova, a husband and wife based in Saint Petersburg, have been working and exhibiting together since 1990.

Biscotti is a newly released cookbook written by Mona Talbott, executive chef of the American Academy in Rome’s Sustainable Food Project and pastry cook, Mirella Misenti.

Luigi Moretti (1907-1973) is widely considered the most important Italian architect of the 20th century.

The Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program (EHP) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with two lectures copresented with the American Academy in Rome on November 23 and 24, featuring the writer David Macaulay and the artist Anna Schuleit.

Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers college and university teachers opportunities to study a var

For a full six weeks and in eight major events—from 5 November through 21 December 2010—Rome is enjoying the 47th iteration of the Nuova Consonanza music festival. The unifying theme of this year’s program is “Romantik.”

“The ‘Public’ Library in the Italian Renaissance” by Christopher S. Celenza (1994 Fellow).

The Academy has assembled a flexible network of arts and humanities Advisors to whom the AAR community can turn for information and guidance, including scholars, artists, writers, galleristi and others—all based or largely based in Rome.

A great crowd turned out to celebrate the American Academy in Rome’s 2010 Cabaret, curated by Academy Trustees Laurie Anderson, RAAR’06, and Laurie Simmons, RAAR’05.

The Cabaret will take place Tuesday 26 October, 2010, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on New York's Lower East Side.

The American Academy in Rome, in collaboration with the Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, is pleased to present Betty Woodman: Roman Fresco/Pleasures and Places, an exhibition of selected recent works in ceramic and on canvas.

The American Academy in Rome proudly announces that Laurie Anderson (2006 Resident) will both curate and perform at the upcoming Cabaret in New York on October 26, 2010.

On Monday 27 September the Friends of the Academy in Italy gathered to welcome new AAR Director Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR’94 and the new class of Academy Fellows.

“It was off the proverbial hook.” That was how AAR Mellon Professor Corey Brennan (1988 Fellow) described The 1960 Rome Olympic Games Conference, which he organized under the auspices of the Academy for September 30–October 2.

Featuring Fellows, Residents and friends of the American Academy in Rome, this year's Cabaret at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York City on October 26 promises to be packed with vivid work by some of today’s most exciting artists.

The American Academy in Rome welcomes the first two of five Italian fellows who will live and work at the Academy this year. Earlier this month, PhD candidate Marco Rossati and artist Marco Raparelli arrived to join the AAR community and settle in to their respective study and studio.

One of the most prized traditions of the American Academy in Rome is its series of walks and talks, a collaborative enterprise where Fellows explore the city or (often) points further afield under expert direction by one or more group leaders.