2 aprile 2013 Stephen Greenblatt Contemplates the Enduring Power of Lucretius and his Dangerous Ideas A lecture by Stephen Greenblatt, RAAR’10, took place Wednesday evening under an auspicious full moon at the Villa Aurelia. Read more
2 aprile 2013 Lucy Corin Thinks Obsessively about Space and Narrative Time Lucy Corin is the winner of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize in Literature (a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman) and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis. Read more
29 marzo 2013 Abruzzo to Puglia: Fellows' Spring Trip 2013 This year the Trip’s aim was a deeper understanding of lesser-known parts of Italy and an appreciation of how culture and heritage fit – and clash – in a modern Italy. Read more
27 marzo 2013 Randall Mason Looks at Giovannoni’s Rome at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Randall Mason is the winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation and an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more
27 marzo 2013 The Found Object: Jason Dodge and Martino Gamper at the AAR The most spare and conceptually elegant art show offered at the AAR in recent years was two installations by American artist Jason Dodge (in the Art Gallery) and Italian artist Martino Gamper (in the Cryptoporticus). Read more
15 marzo 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
14 marzo 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
12 marzo 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
8 marzo 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
6 marzo 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
15 febbraio 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
13 febbraio 2013 Sweetly Bear Down: James Siena at 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
8 febbraio 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
7 febbraio 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
6 febbraio 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
31 gennaio 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
28 gennaio 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
23 gennaio 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
22 gennaio 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
16 gennaio 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