Features

The American Academy in Rome has appointed Caroline Goodson, a professor of early medieval history at the University of Cambridge and a 2003 Rome Prize Fellow in medieval studies, as its next Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor.

Seven winners of the 2024 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, announced today, are also Rome Prize Fellows.

Get ready for an exciting three months ahead at the Academy, packed with a vibrant array of programs taking place not only on the Janiculum Hill but also across Rome

AAR spoke to Emre Gönlügür, the 2024 Getty Global Affiliated Fellow and assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at Izmir University of Economics, about his recent activities.

The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce its new director of development, Ketter Weissman, who will start her role on April 22.

Academy Fellows and Residents were well represented among the 2024 winners of awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

AAR looks forward to presenting the first Galileo Night Lecture in what will become a new annual tradition, marking the anniversary of Galileo’s demonstration of the telescope at the site of AAR’s Casa Rustica on April 14, 1611.

A very enthusiastic audience of 125 attended Salone III at the legendary Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village in New York on March 12.

Since arriving at the academy, Ajay Manthripragada (2024 Fellow) has focused his work on architectural terracotta.

In March of 1966, the architect and then-recent AAR Director Richard A. Kimball organized an international conference on urban design, titled “The City as a Work of Art.”

Marla Stone, the Academy’s Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor from 2021 to 2023, shares with us a few favorite places in the Eternal City.

Antoine Predock, an architect and a 1985 Rome Prize Fellow whose drawings “capture the essence of structures from antiquity, including the Parthenon, as well as landscapes, churches, cityscapes, and monuments,” has died.

John Delury, our 2024 Tsao Family Rome Prize Fellow, tells AAR how his fellowship year is unfolding.

Spring is around the corner, and the art world eagerly anticipates a vibrant array of gallery and museum shows that highlight the work of Academy Fellows and Residents.

AAR spoke to Lauren Stimson about her Rome Prize Fellowship, and how her project has changed since arriving.

AAR celebrated Black History Month with dedicated programming that surveyed historical presences and absences, and their enduring legacy in shaping the world we live in today.

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a $35,000 grant to support Rome Prize Fellowships in the visual arts. 

“Pairings” offered the first of what AAR hopes will become an annual series: a roundtable with chefs and winegrowers that sparked meaningful discussion about sustainability, food politics, and the implications of climate change on food systems.

As part of AAR’s “Fellows in Focus” series, we spotlight Emily B. Frank, the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation and a PhD candidate at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Rome Sustainable Food Project chef Sara Levi visits a farming cooperative in Pedaso to learn more about evolutionary population bread wheat, and how to bring it to the Academy.