February 7, 2024 In Memoriam: George W. Houston George W. Houston, a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1969 to 2005 and a 1969 Rome Prize Fellow, has died. Read more
February 6, 2024 Fellows in Focus: Fatma Bucak As part of AAR’s “Fellows in Focus” series, we highlight Fatma Bucak, the Turin-based artist and our 2024 Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts. Read more
February 5, 2024 Re-Creating History: Pamela Keech at the Tenement Museum In recent months, Keech served on the design team for the Tenement Museum’s latest exhibition, A Union of Hope: 1869, completed late last year, and became the museum’s first exhibition to feature the home of a Black family. Read more
February 5, 2024 AAR Welcomes Spring-Term Fellows to Rome The Academy is grateful to welcome the latest Rome Prize winners to the Eternal City. Read more
February 2, 2024 Application Deadline Extended: 2024 Classical Summer School The deadline to apply for the 2024 Classical Summer School has been extended. The new deadline is February 23, 2024. Read more
January 31, 2024 Evan Jewell Appointed Classical Summer School Director Evan Jewell (2023 Fellow) has been selected to be the new director of the Classical Summer School. Read more
January 29, 2024 Miranda Mote Opens Her Studio and Practice to Children of Rome Miranda E. Mote, our 2024 Fellow in landscape architecture, is bringing the outdoors in while welcoming some unlikely visitors to her studio: scores of children ages three to fifteen for specially designed classes that combine art, botany, and plant stories. Read more
January 26, 2024 Archaeologists and Scholars Dig Deep into Roman Regia at Major Conference At the center of the Roman Forum, often ignored by the tourists visiting the area, lies an archaeological treasure trove that holds secrets from the oldest days of Rome: the Regia. This remarkable site served as the subject of a major seminar held at the Curia Julia on Thursday. Read more
January 25, 2024 New Oral Histories Published Online The Academy’s Institutional Archive has published three new oral histories from the sculptor Gilbert Franklin, the artist Robert B. Green, and the classicists Lawrence Richardson Jr. and Emeline Hill Richardson. Read more
January 16, 2024 From the Archives: The Janus Medal The two-faced deity Janus is associated with thresholds, beginnings, and transitions—an apt mascot for AAR, which represents a symbolic threshold between America and Europe, and between past and future. Read more
January 9, 2024 Remembering Malcolm Bell III Malcolm Bell III (1970 Fellow, 1989 Resident), a widely admired archaeologist, a longtime field director of excavations at Morgantina in Sicily, and an international advocate for the protection of cultural heritage, has died. Read more
January 3, 2024 New Volume of “Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome” Is Published We are pleased to announce the publication of volume 68 of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, AAR’s annual peer-reviewed journal. Read more
December 31, 2023 AAR Year in Review As we prepare to usher in a new year, AAR revisits the 2023 calendar year and the highlights of our Fellows’ work. Read more
December 21, 2023 Painters of Great Excellence: An Interview with Diane Cole Ahl AAR spoke with the art historian Diane Cole Ahl (2013 Resident), author of the recently published Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: “This Splendid and Noble Art” from Yale University Press. Read more
December 20, 2023 Winter Open Studios Showcases Work by Fall Fellows in the Arts Take a glimpse into our annual Winter Open Studios event. Read more
December 13, 2023 Winners of the Bridge Book Award Announced On December 5, the eighth edition of the Bridge Book Award took place with an award ceremony at Centro Studi Americani in Rome. Read more
December 11, 2023 From the Archives: The Duel that Almost Took Place at AAR Nearly a century ago, AAR Director Gorham Stevens rushed to avert a duel between an Italian officer and a Fellow. Read more
December 1, 2023 From the Archives: “A Christmas Poem” by Ann Freeman In remembrance of 1958 Rome Prize Fellow Ann Freeman, the Academy’s Institutional Archive is delighted to share her “A Christmas Poem” from 1956. Read more
November 30, 2023 Andy Akiho Nominated for Three Grammys Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow), a musical composer and performer based in Portland, Oregon, has been nominated for three Grammy Awards this year. Read more
November 29, 2023 New Work Made in Rome by 2023 Fellow Todd Gray Shown in Los Angeles Rome Work is the title of 2023 Fellow Todd Gray’s exhibition at the gallery Vielmetter Los Angeles. As the title indicates, the artist made the pieces at the Academy during his Rome Prize Fellowship, from February to July 2023. Read more