Features

An international audience packed the American Academy in Rome’s Villa Aurelia on September 25 to hear Mary Beard, one of the world’s most celebrated scholars of the ancient world, kick off the year’s series of programs with a lecture titled “The Classical Body: The Naked and the Nude.”

The American Academy in Rome presents Paolo Gioli: Anthropolaroid, a solo exhibition by the artist Paolo Gioli, curated by Peter Benson Miller.
 

The Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund has awarded 2018–19 fellowships to Alexander Skidan in poetry, and to Vladimir Logutov in the visual arts.

The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce its selection for a new vice president for development, Kathleen Heins, who will start on August 13, 2018.

This year’s Open Studios took place on Thursday, June 7, 2018. Claudia Trezza offers a summary of what she saw, including the literary and musical performances.

The American Academy in Rome celebrated its fourteenth annual McKim Medal Gala at Villa Aurelia in Rome.

Yto Barrada’s The Dye Garden, the spring exhibition at the American Academy in Rome, is on view through July 8. Barrada was a 2018 Resident in visual arts at the Academy.

Registration is open for Designing Water, a two-day symposium to be held at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania in October 2018.

View photographs of the 2018 Rome Prize Ceremony and the final Conversations/Conversazioni event at Cooper Union in New York.

We were all shocked and saddened at the sudden loss of our colleague, Giovanni Cimoroni, a longtime member of the AAR staff and community.

This Spring 2018 issue of our biannual magazine highlights recent work and collaborations by our Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows.

The American Academy in Rome announces the winners of the 2018–19 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships.

Drue Heinz, a spirited philanthropist for literature and the arts, died on March 30, 2018, in Lasswade, Scotland. A Trustee of the American Academy of Rome from 2001 to 2004, she endowed the Drue Heinz Librarian and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature.

Henry A. Millon, dean emeritus of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, died on April 2, 2018. Millon was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 1960, a Resident in 1966, Director from 1974 to 1977, and a Trustee from 1977 to 1994.

On February 2–3, the renowned Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performed two concerts at the American Academy in Rome as the culminating events of a week-long residency. This is the tenth year of the group’s annual visit and concert series for the AAR community and the city of Rome.

MAXXI is presenting a project by the American artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla called Blackout.

A group exhibition titled Black Value, composed of current and former Academy Fellows, opens on February 8 in Florence.

The celebrated playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner delivered a delightful Centennial Medal Speech during the American Academy in Rome’s 2017 Fall Gala.

Lynne C. Lancaster, an archaeologist, architectural historian, educator, and 2002 Fellow, has been selected as the next Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.

United States Artists has selected two Rome Prize winners, Abigail DeVille and Thomas Kelley, and one AAR Resident, Tania León, to receive 2018 fellowships.