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Il 26 ottobre, AAR presenterà il Gala di New York 2021 in onore di tre persone—la studiosa e amministratore Mary Schmidt Campbell, lo scrittore John Guare e l’artista Julie Mehretu—che promuovono le arti e le scienze umane e esemplificano risultati eccezionali nelle discipline in cui le borse del Premio Roma vengono conferite borse di studio italiane e residenze invitate.

In qualità di direttore ad interim, Elizabeth Rodini guiderà un team di studiosi di talento, con Marla Stone che si unirà come nuovo Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor e Lindsay Harris come Andrew Heiskell Arts Director ad interim.

Tra i quattordici residenti dell’AAR per il prossimo anno accademico 2021–22 ci saranno la poetessa Natasha Trethewey, lo storico dell’arte Dario Gamboni e la regista Ava DuVernay.

L’AAR e la University of Michigan Press hanno appena pubblicato il volume 65 delle Memorie dell’American Academy in Rome.

Margaret L. Laird, studiosa indipendente le cui ricerche si concentrano sull’arte romana e sull’archeologia del periodo imperiale e membro del Rome Prize nel 2000, è stata nominata curatrice per un triennio delle Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.

Quest’anno, il dono del “tempo e spazio per pensare e lavorare” è stato assegnato a trentacinque artisti e studiosi americani e cinque italiani, che riceveranno ciascuno uno stipendio, uno spazio di lavoro e vitto e alloggio presso il campus di undici acri dell’Accademia di Roma, a partire da settembre 2021.

Leslie Cozzi (Fellow 2018) intervista l’artista Tomaso De Luca (Italian Fellow 2017), i cui lavori sono esposti a Roma alla Quadriennale d’arte e al MAXXI.

Marla Stone, docente di Storia Moderna Europea all’Occidental College e Rome Prize Fellow 1996 per gli Studi Umanistici Post-Classici, sarà la prossima Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor presso l’American Academy in Rome.

L’AAR è oltremodo grata di riaprire per l’ennesima stagione e dare il benvenuto alla nostra nuova classe di vincitori del Rome Prize e Italian Fellows nella Città Eterna.

L’American Academy in Rome è lieta di annunciare la sua lista di residenti per il 2021.

L’American Academy in Rome ricorda l’artista Jackie Saccoccio (Fellow 2005), scomparsa il 4 dicembre.

La fotografa Carole Raddato ha donato il nucleo della sua vasta collezione, circa 30.000 immagini digitali, alla Biblioteca AAR per garantirne la conservazione a lungo termine e l’accesso continuo agli studiosi.

La biblioteca dell’Accademia Americana di Roma riaprirà agli studiosi il 2 novembre.

Sanjaya Thakur, professore associato e presidente del Dipartimento di studi classici del Colorado College, è stata nominata direttrice della Scuola estiva classica dell'AAR.

Encounters I and II are part of a year-long series of events commemorating the institution’s 125th anniversary. The exhibitions trace only a few representative examples of the many interdisciplinary encounters fostered by the Academy from 1948 to the present.

This year, fellowships were awarded to twenty-two North American and two Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five to seven months at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome.

In the midst of a global pandemic that has disproportionately affected communities of color, racially motivated violence is a reminder that systemic racism still persists.

Since 1894, the Academy has been a nurturing home to a vibrant community of hundreds of distinguished scholars and artists. In this issue, we celebrate AAR’s 125th anniversary by looking back at some of the Fellows and their work.

A video installation by the preservationist Matthew Brennan and the designer Eugenia Morpurgo, on view during Cinque Mostre 2020 earlier this year, featured a condensed version of their vision of a landscape after 2,100 years of climate change.

In celebration of the Academy’s 125th anniversary, the exhibitions Encounters I: Abstracting Rome and Encounters II: The Activist Gesture investigate the enduring impact of the city of Rome as a dynamic creative laboratory through a series of interdisciplinary exchanges.

Encounters I identifies the abstracting techniques resulting from three historic encounters; the second part traces how those techniques are employed in recent contemporary works responding to pressing social and political issues in the United States.

Pairing the artist Julie Mehretu and the architect J. Meejin Yoon, Encounters II explores the role of abstract forms and gestural mark making as indices and agents of social and political change in contemporary American society.

Nancy Millar O’Boyle, a member of the American Academy in Rome’s Board of Trustees from 1985 to 2011, died on March 25, 2020. She was one week shy of her 89th birthday.

In consideration of the safety of those residing in Rome and the institution as a whole, we have made the difficult decision to close the Academy’s campus on April 3.

The modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, an AAR Trustee Emeritus and a 1992 Resident, has died. He was 93 years old.

Hundreds of people filled AAR’s courtyard, cryptoporticus, library, and galleries to view artists and performers showcase their work and explore this year’s theme, “Convergence.”

Lo storico ed educatore Avinoam Shalem (Resident 2016) è stato nominato 24° direttore dell’American Academy in Rome.

Convergence is the theme of the 2020 edition of Cinque Mostre, AAR’s annual collective exhibition featuring work by current Rome Prize Fellows, Italian and Affiliated Fellows, and invited artists.

Political philosopher Danielle Allen and visual artist Theaster Gates picked up on this year’s Academy theme, “Encounters,” to delve into a conversation on democracy, art, and social activism.

Michael Sovern, a law professor and former president of Columbia University who chaired the Academy’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2005, died on January 20. He was 88 years old.