Next week in Rome—AAR celebrates its 125th anniversary by opening its 2019–20 programming season with a Conversations/Conversazioni event featuring Vatican Museum director Barbara Jatta and AAR director John Ochsendorf (2008Fellow).
Today in Rome—Mark Robbins, president and CEO of the American Academy in Rome and a 1997Fellow, will speak about the arc of the Academy in its 125 year history.
TOMORROW is the deadline for the summer program in Latin Epigraphy, an intensive two-week course (June 17-July 3) introducing graduate students and early career scholars to the reading, interpretation, and editing of Latin inscriptions from
Norman Krumholz, a 1987Fellow in design, a professor at Cleveland State University& Levin College of Urban Affairs, and Cleveland& city planning director from 1969 to 1979, died on December 20, 2019
Last November the composer and pianist Yehudi Wyner (1956 Fellow, 1991 Resident) described hisexperience to the Boston Musical Intelligencer: "It changed the path of my thinking"
Holly Flora (2011 Fellow) was awarded the Premio San Francesco from the Pontifical University of Saint Anthony (Antonianum) in Rome for her book Cimabue and the Franciscans (2018).
Maya Maskarinec (2014 Fellow) has won a 2020 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome.”
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Affiliated Fellow Helen Cammock Shares Turner Prize
The London-based artist Helen Cammock—who won the American Academy of Rome’s 2018 Max Mara Art Prize for Women Affiliated Fellowship—is one of four recipients of this year’s Turner Prize
Rustin Levenson (2015 Resident) led the conservation of Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Coronation of the Virgin (ca. 1492), in the collection of the Bass Museum of Art in Florida.
John Kelly (2007 Fellow) will be premiering a new work, Underneath the Skin, at the Skirball Center at New York University on October 11 and 12, 2019. Underneath the Skin is a new solo work of dance and theater drawn from the life of the societal and sexual maverick Samuel Steward (1909–1993).
Research conducted at the Academy by Milena Belloni (2017 Italian Fellow) will appear in his new book, The Big Gamble: The Migration of Eritreans to Europe, to be published by the University of California Press later this year.
Sanford Biggers, a 2018 Rome Prize Fellow, organized Tricknology, featuring the work of Allison Janae Hamilton and ektor garcia, for the Apsen location of Marianne Boesky Gallery. The show is on view until September 9.
