March 23, 2023 Public Space as a Form of Expression 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. Read more
March 9, 2023 Ilaria Puri Purini Appointed Andrew Heiskell Arts Director 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. Read more
February 28, 2023 June Jordan & Ulysses Kay: Faces That Changed the Academy 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. Read more
February 24, 2023 What Makes A Citizen 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. Read more
February 22, 2023 Fellows in Focus: Tung-Hui Hu 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. Read more
February 15, 2023 The Sistine Chapel at Your Fingertips 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. Read more
February 1, 2023 Winter Open Studios Highlights Recent Work by Fellows More than eight hundred people passed through the American Academy in Rome’s doors for the annual Winter Open Studios. Read more
January 27, 2023 The Academy Goes Solar A new photovoltaic power generation system, installed on the roof of the McKim, Mead & White Building, is producing clean energy for the Academy. Read more
December 28, 2022 In Memoriam: Richard Trythall 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. Read more
December 23, 2022 Fellows in Focus: Sarah Beckmann 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. Read more
December 21, 2022 Inaugural Getty Foundation Affiliated Fellows Are Announced The American Academy in Rome has named the winners of the inaugural Getty Foundation Affiliated Fellowships: Zakarya Khelif and Emre Gönlügür. Read more
December 12, 2022 American Academy in Rome’s 20 Best Books to Give This Season As the holiday season fast approaches, AAR has assembled a diverse array of books by or featuring our Fellows and Residents. Read more
November 28, 2022 Dispatch from Turkey: Catching Up with C. Brian Rose A newly announced bequest intention by C. Brian Rose (1992 Fellow, 2012 Resident, and Trustee Emeritus) will support residencies across disciplines in the humanities. Read more
November 10, 2022 Food and Fellowship: The Rome Sustainable Food Project Celebrates Fifteen Years This year marked the fifteen-year anniversary of the Rome Sustainable Food Project, a milestone that was celebrated at a Friends of the Academy garden party on June 12. Read more
November 4, 2022 AAR Raises $1 Million at the 2022 New York Gala Nearly three hundred guests gathered at the American Academy in Rome’s New York Gala, held at Cipriani 25 Broadway on November 2. Read more
October 31, 2022 Is Weird Medieval Guys the Best Account on Twitter? A viral Twitter account called Weird Medieval Guys is spreading joy through the unlikely source of European medieval art. Read more
October 27, 2022 Italy Is (Only) Almost All Right Learning from Las Vegas gleefully pairs the capital of both Christendom and classical pieties with Sin City, in all its cheap, tawdry vulgarity. How? The authors justify Vegas first: “learning from everything” in a nonjudgmental way (initially) is “a way of being revolutionary for an architect.” Read more
October 12, 2022 When in Rome: Elizabeth Rodini In this edition we highlight favorites of Elizabeth Rodini, who served the American Academy in Rome as interim Director for 2021–22 and as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director from 2019 to 2021. Read more
October 3, 2022 Mark Robbins to Step Down as President and CEO in July 2023 Academy President and CEO Mark Robbins announced today that he will step down at the conclusion of the academic year, in July 2023, following nearly ten years in the role. Read more
September 28, 2022 Twenty Residents to Visit AAR in 2022–23 The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce its slate of twenty Residents for the 2022–23 academic year. Read more