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As we prepare to usher in a new year, AAR revisits the 2023 calendar year and the highlights of our Fellows’ work.

AAR spoke with the art historian Diane Cole Ahl (2013 Resident), author of the recently published Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: “This Splendid and Noble Art” from Yale University Press.

Take a glimpse into our annual Winter Open Studios event.

On December 5, the eighth edition of the Bridge Book Award took place with an award ceremony at Centro Studi Americani in Rome. 

Nearly a century ago, AAR Director Gorham Stevens rushed to avert a duel between an Italian officer and a Fellow.

In remembrance of 1958 Rome Prize Fellow Ann Freeman, the Academy’s Institutional Archive is delighted to share her “A Christmas Poem” from 1956.

Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow), a musical composer and performer based in Portland, Oregon, has been nominated for three Grammy Awards this year.

Rome Work is the title of 2023 Fellow Todd Gray’s exhibition at the gallery Vielmetter Los Angeles. As the title indicates, the artist made the pieces at the Academy during his Rome Prize Fellowship, from February to July 2023.

On Italian Arbor Day, AAR plants a tree in what will become a new annual tradition.

Marla Stone was inducted into the Accademia dei Lincei on November 10.

Varying Shades of Brown is a project featuring major installations and programs across the entire campus of Brown University by the acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow and AAR Trustee).

The Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Project hosted the opening reception for the CLIMAVORE Assembly, a conference held in Rome that explores new cultural and artistic tactics for ecologically driven action and policymaking.

Valentina Follo has joined AAR’s staff on a permanent, part-time basis, as Curator of the Norton-Van Buren Archaeological Study Collection and Program Manager of the Classical Summer School, and Johanne Affricot has joined AAR as Curator-at-Large.

At AAR’s New York Gala, held on November 2, three hundred guests gathered to honor three cultural leaders who exemplify outstanding commitment to scholarship and creativity.

The Academy’s program director, Shawn Miller, shares his favorite things and places in Rome, which include a cannonball shot from the Janiculum into Palazzo Colonna and the Trastevere gelateria Fatamorgana.

The musical performances in I Nostri Pini di Roma recognized the pines of Rome: the beauty they share, the symbolic force of their presence, and the shade and shadow they provide. 

Every year we award the Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize in the discipline of Renaissance and early modern studies. But who was he?

The archaeologist and Tulane University professor Allison L. C. Emmerson (2019 Fellow) will become interim Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor starting in January 2024.

The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome invites submissions for volume 69, to be published in fall 2024.

AAR has assembled a diverse array of books by or featuring our Fellows and Residents to read this fall.