June 16, 2014 2016 McKim Medal Gala View photographs from the 2016 McKim Medal Gala in New York. Read more
June 11, 2014 Alumni Gather for a Centennial Reunion On June 3rd the Academy welcomed Alumni and their families back for a Reunion to celebrate the centenary of the Academy’s consolidation on the Janiculum Hill, organizing a week of special tours, a symposium on the future of the arts and humanities, an exhibition dedicated to the architectural history of the Academy Main Building, the annual Fellows’ Reading and Open Studios, the McKim Medal Gala and several informal opportunities to reconnect. Read more
June 10, 2014 Centennial Events in Celebration of an Idea Last week the Academy marked the close of an academic cycle and the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the McKim, Mead & White Building in the company of Trustees, Fellows, Residents, friends, and returning Alumni. Read more
May 30, 2014 Celebrating a Centennial: A Place Where Minds Meet An encounter with Rome represents now, as it has done since the American Academy’s inception, something unique: a chance for American artists and scholars to spend significant time interacting and working with each other in one of the oldest, most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Read more
May 30, 2014 Getty Program Brings the Medieval Mediterranean to AAR An image of the skyline of Old Cairo flashes on the screen. “Islamic? Fatimid? Mamluk? Egyptian? How would you categorize these buildings?” the conservation specialist Dina Bakhoum queries the assembled group. Read more
May 27, 2014 Building an Idea: McKim, Mead & White and the American Academy in Rome, 1914–2014 Beautiful weather enticed an especially large crowd to turn out for the opening of the AAR Gallery’s latest exhibition. Read more
May 16, 2014 James Hankins on the Perception of Rome Among Renaissance Humanists Addressing a crowded AAR Lecture Room, James Hankins (1982 Fellow) of Harvard University gave two parallel accounts about the recovery of ancient Greek and Latin sources in the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of Renaissance ideas on the Roman republic from the late fourteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century. Read more
May 14, 2014 Gabrielle Piedad Ponce Explores the Inspiration and Imagination of Cervantes Gabrielle Piedad Ponce is the winner of the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize and is a doctoral candidate at The Johns Hopkins University. Read more
May 13, 2014 Cornell in Rome Collaborates with the Academy On an evening in February, photography students and faculty from Cornell in Rome headed up the Janiculum Hill from the center of the city to attend a private lecture at the studio of visual artist Catherine Wagner at the American Academy in Rome. Read more
May 6, 2014 Derrell Acon Asks Where Black Art Comes From In his concert-lecture entitled, “Da Dove Viene La Black Art?” Derrell Acon combines song, poetry, literary quotation, and instrumentals in asking audiences to reflect with him on the origin and character of black art in America. Read more
May 5, 2014 Celebrating a Centennial: Following in the Footsteps of the Academy What follows is a virtual tour of sites that have hosted the would-be American Academy before it settled in its current home. Read more
April 24, 2014 Elizabeth Fain LaBombard Visits Landscapes That Are Often Underutilized on the Periphery of Rome Elizabeth Fain LaBombard is the winner of the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture and an Associate at James Corner Field Operations in New York. Read more
April 22, 2014 Eric Nathan Compiles Texts for a Song Cycle Inspired by Historic Correspondence Eric Nathan is the winner of the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize in Musical Composition and a Composer from New York City. Read more
April 17, 2014 Milton Gendel at New York’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Milton Gendel: A Surreal Life, curated by Andrew Heiskell Arts Director Peter Benson Miller and Barbara Drudi, opened last Friday in New York at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. Read more
April 11, 2014 Ruth W. Lo Looks at How Food Relates to Rome's Architecture and Urbanism in the Early Twentieth Century Ruth W. Lo is the Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Winner in Modern Italian Studies and a Ph.D candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Read more
April 10, 2014 nine seventeen at the AAR Gallery Prabhavathi Meppayil’s first solo exhibition in Europe opened last Wednesday evening at the AAR Gallery with the artist in attendance. Read more
April 10, 2014 Bradley Cantrell Frames Methodologies Developed in Rural Louisiana for Urban Contexts Bradley E. Cantrell is the winner of the Garden Club of America Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture and the Director and Associate Professor at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. Read more
April 8, 2014 2014–15 Rome Prize Winners Announced The American Academy in Rome congratulates the winners of the 118th annual Rome Prize Competition. Read more
April 7, 2014 Max Page Observes How We Individually Wrestle with the Past Max Page is the winner of the Mark Hampton Rome Prize and a professor of architecture and history in the Department of Art, Architecture, and Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Read more
April 3, 2014 Celebrating a Centennial: The Academy in Times of War On October 1, 1914, the doors of the McKim, Mead & White building opened solemnly onto a world at war. It was a war, they said, to end all wars, yet the institution would survive to see it end and another conflict begin. Read more