Press Releases

AAR’s New York Gala Honors Terence Blanchard, Carlo Ginzburg, and Jenny Holzer

AAR Appoints Mark Bittman and Kathleen Finlay as Co-Directors of Rome Sustainable Food Project

Artists Making Books: Pages of Refuge

AAR Celebrated 2024 McKim Medal Gala on June 5 at Villa Aurelia, Rome

AAR to Celebrate Sofia Coppola at the McKim Medal Gala in Rome on June 5

A Moment in Time: Xu Bing in Rome

Announcing the 2024–25 Rome Prize Winners

AAR Appoints Caroline Goodson as Next Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor

AAR Selects Ketter Weissman as Director of Development

AAR Announces Residents for Fall/Winter 2023

2023 McKim Medal Gala

Peter N. Miller Named New AAR President

2023–24 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

June Jordan, The Poetry of Design

Ilaria Puri Purini Appointed Next Arts Director

Mark Robbins to Step Down as AAR President and CEO in July 2023

AAR Announces Expansion of Global Affiliates Program

AAR Celebrated the 2022 McKim Medal Gala on June 8

AAR Announces Visionary Gift of Nearly $5 Million from the Tsao Family Foundation

Announcing the 2022–23 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

American Academy in Rome Presents “Regeneration”

Aliza S. Wong Appointed 25th Director of the American Academy in Rome

AAR Launches Digital Guide to Bring the Academy Directly to Mobile Devices

Announcing the 2021–22 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

Marla Stone to Be AAR’s Next Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor

Announcing the 2020–21 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

Avinoam Shalem Appointed 24th Director of the American Academy in Rome

The Academic Body

AAR Receives Gift to Establish Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellowship

American Academy in Rome Announces New Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

Cinque Mostre 2019: Δx Displacement

Elizabeth Rodini Appointed as AAR’s Next Andrew Heiskell Arts Director

Sinclair W. Bell Selected as Editor of Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

Paolo Gioli: Anthropolaroid

AAR Selects Kathleen Heins as Vice President for Development

2018 McKim Medal Gala

Designing Water

2018–19 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

Black Value Exhibition of Rome Prize Fellows in Florence

AAR Selects Lynne C. Lancaster as Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities

Wandering Rome: New Exhibition Compares Photographic Perspectives on Rome

2017 McKim Medal Gala Celebrates Giuseppe Penone, Dante Ferretti, and Francesca Lo Schiavo

AAR Announces Winners of the 2017–18 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships

AAR Selects John Ochsendorf as the 23rd Director of the Academy

AAR Announces Season Sponsor of Conversations/Conversazioni Series

AAR Celebrates Patrizia Cavalli and Giorgio Moroder at McKim Gala

AAR Announces 2016–17 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

AAR Spring 2016 Residents: William Kentridge, Kara Walker, David Adjaye, David Stone, Anna Deavere Smith, and More

American Academy in Rome to Honor Carlo Petrini and Paolo Sorrentino at McKim Gala

American Academy in Rome Explores Black Identity with Nero su Bianco

Academy Shines at the 2015 Venice Biennale

AAR Presents the 2015–16 Rome Prize Winners

The American Academy in Rome Presents Charles Mayton: Tableau, Table, Tovolo

Cinque Mostre 2015: An Explosion of New Art and Ideas at the American Academy in Rome

American Academy in Rome Selects Lindsay Harris as Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies

American Academy in Rome Welcomes Chris Begley, Vice President of Development

American Academy in Rome Welcomes New Vice President for Finance and Administration

American Academy in Rome Selects Lindsay Harris as Interim Mellon Professor

American Academy in Rome to Honor Zaha Hadid with 2014 McKim Medal

American Academy in Rome Announces Rome Prize Winners

American Academy in Rome and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo Presents Milton Gendel: A Surreal Life

American Academy in Rome Appoints Kimberly Bowes as Its 22nd Director

Mark Robbins Named New AAR President

Genevieve Gessert Appointed Next Director of CSS

2013 McKim Medal Gala

2013–14 Rome Prize Winners Announced

2013 Tribute Dinner – New York

Martino Gamper and Jason Dodge: Design and Narrative in the Found Object

Scharoun Ensemble Berlin 2013

Exhibition: The Idea of Realism

Peter Benson Miller Is the Sixth Andrew Heiskell Arts Director

Brightlight/Darklight Exhibition

New Drue Heinz Librarian

2012 McKim Medal Gala English

Rome Prize Winners 2012–13

American Academy in Rome Galas Honoring Kentridge, Sellars, and Muti

Scharoun Ensemble Berlin at Villa Aurelia

AAR Selects Professor Kimberly Bowes as Next Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Nate Lowman: Three Amigos Exhibition

Milton Gendel Exhibition

2011 McKim Gala

Antoni Muntadas and Giulio Squillacciotti

Rome Prize Winners 2011–12

Derek Walcott Reading

Leonard Barkan to Give the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series

Eugenio Montale Reading

Philip Guston: Roma

Accademia Stanze Persone

Scharoun Ensemble

Betty Woodman

The 1960 Rome Olympic Games Conference

2010 McKim Gala

New York Gala