March 31, 2022 AAR Launches on the Free Bloomberg Connects App Explore the American Academy in Rome at your fingertips on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Read more
March 10, 2022 Statement from AAR President and CEO Mark Robbins on Ukraine “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.” Read more
March 4, 2022 Academy Conference Examined Violence in Modern Politics across America and Europe 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. Read more
February 7, 2022 The Legacy of Missionary Collections Is Explored at Fellow-Organized Workshop 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. Read more
January 21, 2022 Openness 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. Read more
January 20, 2022 AAR and NYPL Announce Collaboration to Support Global Scholarship in the Humanities The American Academy in Rome and The New York Public Library announced a new collaboration to advance scholarship in the arts and humanities and to partner on virtual and in-person programming events. Read more
December 29, 2021 From the Archives: Classical Summer School 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. Read more
December 20, 2021 New Exhibition at the Archaeological Museum in Orbetello Showcases Images from AAR’s Archive The exhibition, called The Landscape of Cosa, tells its story using photographs from two important collections in the Academy’s Photographic Archive. Read more
November 22, 2021 Waste Not COVID-19 restrictions in Rome earlier this year led a 2021 Fellow in literature to conceive of an experimental dinner, realized in July with the Rome Sustainable Food Project, that takes overlooked and discarded ingredients as inspiration. Read more
October 18, 2021 When in Rome: 2021 Fellows Five 2021 Fellows who have just returned from Rome share their favorite places in the city and region. Read more
September 15, 2021 AAR to Honor Mary Schmidt Campbell, John Guare, and Julie Mehretu On October 26, AAR will present the 2021 New York Gala honoring three individuals—scholar and administrator Mary Schmidt Campbell, writer John Guare, and artist Julie Mehretu—who advance the arts and humanities. Read more
August 18, 2021 American Academy in Rome Leadership – Fall 2021 As interim Director, Elizabeth Rodini will head a team of talented scholars, with Marla Stone joining as the new Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor and Lindsay Harris as interim Andrew Heiskell Arts Director. Read more
August 16, 2021 Announcing the AAR Residents for 2021–22 Among the group of thirteen AAR Residents for the upcoming 2021–22 academic year will be the poet Natasha Trethewey, the art historian Dario Gamboni, and the filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Read more
July 13, 2021 AAR Publishes New Issue in Memoirs Series AAR and the University of Michigan Press have just released volume 65 of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Read more
June 8, 2021 Scholar Margaret Laird Selected as Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Margaret L. Laird, an independent scholar whose research focuses on Roman art and archaeology of the imperial period and a 2000 Rome Prize Fellow, has been appointed to a three-year term as editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Read more
April 23, 2021 Announcing the 2021–22 Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows This year, the gift of “time and space to think and work” was awarded to thirty-five American and five Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome, starting in September 2021. Read more
April 7, 2021 The Keys to the Castle: An Interview with Tomaso De Luca Leslie Cozzi (2018 Fellow) interviews the artist Tomaso De Luca (2017 Italian Fellow), whose work can be seen in Rome at the Quadriennale d’arte and the MAXXI Bvlgari Prize 2020. Read more
March 31, 2021 Marla Stone to Be AAR’s Next Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor Marla Stone, a professor of modern European history at Occidental College and a 1996 Rome Prize Fellow in Post-Classical Humanistic Studies, has been appointed AAR’s next Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor. Read more
February 1, 2021 AAR Reopens AAR is beyond grateful to reopen for yet another season and welcome our new class of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows to the Eternal City. Read more
January 28, 2021 Announcing the Spring 2021 Residents The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce its slate of Residents for 2021. Read more