AAR Magazine

This issue of AAR Magazine celebrates the Academy’s 125th anniversary. The issue introduces nine Residents for fall 2019, reports on a November conference in Rome on the Academy’s influence on the arts and humanities, and recognizes Life Trustee Michael C. J. Putnam, professor emeritus of classics at Brown University and a Vergil specialist, whom the Paideia Institute recently honored.

A special two-page spread presents a selection of key moments in the Academy’s history since 1894 as a visual timeline; another spread describes Encounters I, the first of a two-part exhibition that features Fellows and Residents from the 1940s to the 1980s. The issue also highlights recent awards, exhibitions, and publications by those Fellows who have returned from the Eternal City, and provides a special look at Rome, through the eyes of a longtime member of the Academy Community.

This issue of AAR Magazine embraces the wide range of Academy activities—past, present, and future. The issue features a new project from the Academy's Photographic Archive—the digitization and geotag­ging of nearly 1,300 images by Ernest Nash from the Fototeca Unione—and recaps a two-day conference on the legacy of cultural production from the Fascist era. We also highlight recent work by Rome Prize win­ners, spring Residents, and participants in the annual Cinque Mostre exhibition, and preview the spring exhibition, The Academic Body, curated by Mark Robbins and Peter Benson Miller. The issue reports on awards, exhibitions, and publications by those who have returned from the Eternal City. Finally, we announce the 2019 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows, who will ascend the Janiculum this September for eleven months of creativity and community.

This issue of AAR Magazine features the artists, scholars, thinkers, and producers that form the diverse and expansive community that is the American Academy in Rome. We describe some of the 2018–19 programming, which revolves around the theme of “The Body.” We introduce eight Residents for fall 2018 and winter 2019 and update readers on two AAR exhibitions: Paolo Gioli, Anthropolaroid, which opened in Rome in October, and the US debut in November of Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata, at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. Finally, we highlight the Brown Foundation, which has established the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize for visual arts.

This issue highlights recent work and collaborations by our Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows. Because this year was the tenth anniversary of the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin in Rome, we reflect on how the concert series began. The spring issue also anticipates a solo show of new work by Yto Barrada, the Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence from last fall, which—along with the Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture by Mary Roberts in March and a conference on Islamic art and architecture in May—are the culminating events of East and West, the Academy’s thematic series of events for 2017–18. Finally, we are excited to announce the 2018–19 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows!

This issue of AAR Magazine introduces our new director and features several artists and scholars from our diverse and expansive community. This year’s overarching theme of East and West is represented in the varied programming and events conducted by AAR in Rome and the United States—and in the ways Fellows and Residents cross between and redefine disciplines that once seemed wholly distinct and fixed.

This issue of AAR Magazine offers a summation of a very productive year. We feature the scholars and artists in our creative community at the culmination of their research and look at how the Fellows’ Project Fund has expanded their possibilities for collaborating and presenting their work in intriguing ways. We update this year’s exploration of American Classics with reports on a February conference and previews of events still to come, including an exhibition featuring new work by the artist Charles Ray. You will also find a close look at AAR’s involvement in archaeology and details of a new Italian Fellowship sponsored by Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT. And, of course, we introduce the Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows for 2017–18!

In this issue, we celebrate this year’s central theme of American Classics, exploring programs and work that define what it means to be American and the ways in which this is reframed in the context of our setting in Rome. We also feature the artists, writers, scholars, and composers in our diverse and expansive community, as well as one of our signature programs: the Rome Sustainable Food Project, which recently published its latest cookbook, Carne. We also highlight new partnerships with organizations such as the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Institute for International Education, which help expand our audiences.

Every year a talented pool of artists and scholars are invited to the Academy to pursue their work in a creative, international environment. This spring issue of AAR Magazine introduces the core of this group: our 2016–17 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows. This issue also highlights a selection of work created at the Academy over the last year, shares news about Fellows and Residents of previous years, and offers an overview of the programs and events taking place in Rome and in the United States. In addition, we are proud to present several of the invited Residents who have joined us this spring. Welcome to the world of ideas at the American Academy in Rome.

This issue of AAR Magazine features artists, writers, scholars, and composers from our diverse and expansive community, as well as one of our signature resources: the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library. The overarching theme of Categories, which characterizes AAR programming and events throughout this year, is represented in the varied fields we address—from electronic music to archaeology—and in the ways Fellows and Residents cross between and redefine categories that once seemed wholly distinct and fixed. Welcome to the world of ideas at the American Academy in Rome.

In this issue of AAR Magazine, we introduce the community of artists, writers, scholars, and composers living and working at the American Academy in Rome. Each year, winners of the Rome Prize, along with Italian Affiliated Fellows and Residents, are invited to the Academy to pursue their work in a dynamic international environment that supports innovative scholarship and creativity. This year’s elite group is featured, along with a selection of work by current Fellows and news about Fellows from previous years.

The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. Each year, the Academy awards the Rome Prize. Those selected for the Prize are invited to Rome to pursue their work in an atmosphere of intellectual and artistic freedom and interdisciplinary exchange. In the pages that follow, you will be introduced to a selection of the most recent Fellows, as well as a number of Fellows from previous years.