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This year marked the fifteen-year anniversary of the Rome Sustainable Food Project, a milestone that was celebrated at a Friends of the Academy garden party on June 12.

Nearly three hundred guests gathered at the American Academy in Rome’s New York Gala, held at Cipriani 25 Broadway on November 2.

A viral Twitter account called Weird Medieval Guys is spreading joy through the unlikely source of European medieval art.

Learning from Las Vegas gleefully pairs the capital of both Christendom and classical pieties with Sin City, in all its cheap, tawdry vulgarity. How? The authors justify Vegas first: “learning from everything” in a nonjudgmental way (initially) is “a way of being revolutionary for an architect.”

Academy President and CEO Mark Robbins announced today that he will step down at the conclusion of the academic year, in July 2023, following nearly ten years in the role.

The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce its slate of twenty-one Residents for the 2022–23 academic year.

The American Academy in Rome is moving its New York offices to the Dia Art Foundation building at 535 West 22nd Street in October.

Two celebrated Australian artists, Reko Rennie and Angela Valamanesh, are the latest recipients of the Mordant Family/Australia Council Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

The American Academy in Rome notes with sadness the death of Nancy Brown Negley, Trustee Emerita.

A Fellows’ Project Fund event on July 5 was dedicated to organizations that advocate for social and racial justice for migrants in Italy.

CBS Sunday Morning distilled the Academy’s essence, history, and present-day life in a five-minute television segment that aired on July 10.

The American Academy in Rome celebrates the life of the late poet Jay Hopler (2011 Fellow).

A grant from the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative will support a residency for scholars from underserved regions in the greater Mediterranean basin.

The American Academy in Rome honored curator Cecilia Alemani and the filmmaker and producer Matteo Garrone at the sixteenth McKim Medal Gala at the Villa Aurelia in Rome on June 8.

Alumni of AAR are well represented among the 2022 American Academy of Arts and Letters award winners.

AAR has just published volume 66 of its flagship journal, the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.

Rhonda Collier, the Inaugural Tuskegee University Affiliated Fellow, conducts research from the American Academy in Rome.

AAR is saddened to learn of the death of Giovanni Uggeri (1965 Affiliated Fellow), an internationally renowned archeologist and scholar in the field of ancient topography. With his passing, we have lost a treasured user of our Library.

A visionary set of gifts by the Tsao Family Foundation will support scholars working on the historical intersection of China and Italy in arts and ideas, artists from China, as well as faculty or doctoral students from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Congratulations to the inaugural Fondazione Sicilia Affiliated Fellows: artist duo Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta and scholar Gaia Nuccio. 

A recent bequest intention from the Grose Family Fund will support Fellows who identify as LGBTQI+ or whose artistic or scholarly projects in Rome explore LGBTQI+ themes.

Meet Anna McCann, the first American woman underwater archaeologist.

The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships.

AAR is pleased to announce that Aliza S. Wong, a professor of history and interim dean of the Honors College at Texas Tech University, has been appointed to be the Academy’s 25th Director.

Explore the American Academy in Rome at your fingertips on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.

“The American Academy in Rome is dedicated to the open exchange of ideas as an essential part of a civil society. We condemn the invasion of Ukraine and stand in solidarity with people around the world whose liberty is at risk.”

By probing the similarities of these movements, an AAR conference on “Political Violence” deepened our understanding of historical events and gave us the context to understand current challenges facing democracy.

The thorny ethical issues behind missionary collections, including the question of how to—or how not to—display Indigenous objects, were the topic of a public workshop organized by Beatrice Falcucci and Gloria Bell that took place at AAR on February 1.

First held in 1923, the Classical Summer School was designed to give American high school Latin teachers direct experience with places in Italy associated with antiquity and return with a renewed enthusiasm for and greater understanding of their subjects.

The work displayed over the years chronicles a slower openness to the full sweep of artistic inspiration Rome has to offer, as well as to a wider range of artists from the United States.