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This year AAR’s Classical Summer School, founded in 1923, marks its centennial. If you participated in the program, we would love to hear from you.

Stephen Harby has made a bequest intention to endow a Rome Prize Fellowship and Residency in architecture, in memory of the architect Charles Moore.

To celebrate the opening of Roma, a Portrait at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, which celebrates the foreign cultural academies in the Eternal City, we republish this article by Denise R. Costanzo (2015 Fellow) on the approaches to classical and modern architecture at those institutes.

November 4, 2022, saw the return of Salone, the Society of Fellows’ flagship multimedia performance event that featured musicians, composers, choreographers, and artists from among the Academy’s alumni.

Peter N. Miller, a respected historian and educator who is a leading voice on the continued importance of the humanities, will serve as the next President of the American Academy in Rome.

The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2023–24 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships.

Today the National Endowment for the Humanities announced it will award a $472,850 challenge grant to AAR for an expansion of the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library into Villa Chiaraviglio.

Whitfield Lovell (2019 Resident) has generously given AAR two striking portraits of two of the first Black Fellows for the Academy Bar: Ulysses Kay and June Jordan

Monica Rhodes talks about the importance of involving communities when making decisions on how to best conserve a historical site.

Five artists and designers discussed the impact, positive or negative, that public art has on the built environment, drawing from their personal experiences and professional projects.

Ilaria Puri Purini, a curator and art historian currently based in London, has been appointed as the eighth Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome, to serve a three-year term beginning this summer.

As we close out Black History Month this year, we share a video celebrating two of the earliest African American winners of the Rome Prize: Ulysses Kay and June Jordan.

On February 9–10, the Academy hosted a conference that brought together scholars from the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Britain, and Italy to analyze and debate the meaning of identity in Italy and the US from the early nineteenth century to today.

For a poetry book in progress, 2023 Rome Prize Fellow Tung-Hui Hu is looking into why humans have punished objects and animals as if they were people.

The Academy acquired a copy of a rare collection of books that presents one-to-one-scale reproductions of every fresco in the Sistine Chapel.

More than eight hundred people passed through the American Academy in Rome’s doors for the annual Winter Open Studios.

A new photovoltaic power generation system, installed on the roof of the McKim, Mead & White Building, is producing clean energy for the Academy.

Richard Trythall, a composer and pianist who was an important figure in the American Academy in Rome’s musical history, died on December 21, 2022, at the age of 83.

Sarah Beckmann, our 2023 Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize Fellow in ancient studies, talks about her project, The Villa in Late Antiquity: Roman Ideals and Local Identities.

The American Academy in Rome has named the winners of the inaugural Getty Foundation Affiliated Fellowships: Zakarya Khelif and Emre Gönlügür.