March 15, 2013 Time Present and Time Past: Scharoun Ensemble Berlin Season Five The Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (SEB) performed the work of Rome Prize winners Anthony Cheung and Jesse Jones at the Villa Aurelia on March 8, 9, and 10. Read more
March 14, 2013 Brenda Longfellow Contextualizes Recycled Statuary By Visiting the Monuments Where They Stood Brenda Longfellow is the Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize winner in Ancient Studies and an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa. Read more
March 12, 2013 Claudia Moser Studies the Archaeological Record of Ritual Sacrifice Claudia Moser is the winner of the Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a Ph.D candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. Read more
March 8, 2013 Jerome Lecturer David Mattingly Rewrites Roman North Africa The forty-first annual Jerome Lectures were packed this year as David Mattingly, professor of Roman archaeology and history at the University of Leicester, delivered a series of paradigm-busting presentations on Roman North Africa. Read more
March 6, 2013 Nicholas Blechman Discovers the Omnipresence of History and the Determination to Create Nicholas Blechman is the winner of the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design and an Art Director at The New York Times in New York City. Read more
February 15, 2013 Peter Jonathan Bell Is Driven by the Physicality of Sculpture Peter Jonathan Bell is the winner of the Robert Lehman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Read more
February 13, 2013 Sweetly Bear Down: James Siena at the AAR James Siena is the Mary Miss Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and an artist from New York City. Read more
February 8, 2013 William O’Brien Jr. Pursues a Refreshed Criticality Toward Contemporary Architectural Form William O'Brien Jr. is the Founders Rome Prize Winner in Architecture. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT where he holds the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, and is the principal of an independent architectural design practice in Cambridge. Read more
February 7, 2013 Fellow-Curated Art From Top to Bottom in Cinque Mostre The public spaces of the McKim, Mead & White Building were proudly made available to art, and to the city of Rome, on the evening of Wednesday, January 30, when a series of five (actually six) installations was presented as Cinque Mostre. Read more
February 6, 2013 Ross Altheimer Decodes the City of Rome Ross Altheimer is the winner of the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture and a Landscape Architecture Studio Leader at Hammel Green and Abrahamson in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read more
January 31, 2013 Jennifer Knust Deepens Her Understanding of Late Antique and Early Medieval Christians Jennifer Knust is the ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow in Ancient Studies, an Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and an Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University. Read more
January 28, 2013 Mari Yoko Hara Combs Through Sixteenth Century Manuscripts and Studies the History of the Built Environment Mari Yoko Hara is the Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Rome Rrize Winner in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. Read more
January 23, 2013 Carl D’Alvia Looks to the Grotesque and Metamorphic When Sculpting in a Contemporary Context Carl D’Alvia is the Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist from West Cornwall, Connecticut. Read more
January 22, 2013 Anthony Cheung Examines Timbral Commonalities and Auto Tunes a Piano in the Cryptoporticus Anthony Cheung is the Luciano Berio Rome Prize Winner in Musical Composition and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Read more
January 16, 2013 John Marino Researches the Mythical Siren and Founder of Naples John Marino is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence and professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. Read more
January 14, 2013 Glendalys Medina Draws a Geometric Alphabet Inspired by Graffiti Glendalys Medina is the John Armstrong Chaloner / Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist. Read more
January 10, 2013 John Guare Brings the Andes to the Gianicolo The playwright John Guare is the John T. Sargent Writer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Read more
December 13, 2012 No Eunuch Priests or Isaic Priestesses: AAR Opens Exhibition 'Religious Experience in Ancient Rome' The show featured objects from the AAR’s Norton–Van Buren Archaeology Study Collection—a collection of over six thousand objects including everything from Etruscan cinerary urns to Christian lamps, much of which has never been exhibited to the public. Read more
December 12, 2012 The American Academy 1947–54, Reopening and Reorientation: A Personal Reminiscence The Academy has just published a personal memoir by Lawrence Richardson Jr., a 1950 Fellow, 1979 Resident, and Academy Trustee from 1969 to 1992, focusing on his years in Rome. Read more
December 10, 2012 Thomas Hendrickson Explores Roman Anxiety about Decadence in the Library Thomas Hendrickson is the winner of the Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more