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In 1961, Otto Luening turned the composers’ listening room into a full-blown studio for producing electronic music.

The duo Genuardi/Ruta, consisting of visual artists Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta, returns to Rome this week to debut Luci di via, an outdoor site-specific project curated by Giuliana Benassi for Matèria.

On Tuesday evening friends of the Academy gathered for a reception at the Consulate General of Italy in New York to welcome recently appointed AAR President Peter N. Miller. 

The retrospective Philip Guston Now, opening next month at Tate Modern in London, gives us occasion to revisit the artist’s “lifelong intense romance” with Italy and his ties to the American Academy in Rome.

These museum and gallery exhibitions feature the work of Rome Prize Fellows and Residents—in some cases directly inspired or initiated during their time at the Academy.

Last week AAR President Peter N. Miller delivered his first talk to a packed lecture room at the American Academy in Rome.

This month we highlight the favorite places of our Italian Fellows, who come to AAR from across Italy and bring with them a unique perspective that enriches the AAR community. 

The Academy is grateful to reopen this month for yet another season, and to welcome our new class of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows to the Eternal City.

The Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome is a website offering nearly 1,500 digitized photographs by Ernest Nash from AAR’s Fototeca Unione.

The American Academy in Rome today announced its slate of Residents for fall and winter 2023.

Adam T. Foley, a classicist, historian, and a 2016 Rome Prize Fellow in Renaissance and early modern studies, has died.

Calvin Tsao, a principal at Tsao & McKown Architects and chair of the American Academy’s Board of Trustees, shares his favorite places in Rome.

Each year, the Rome Prize is given to about thirty-five artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence in their fields. Winners receive a stipend, room and board, and individual workspace at AAR’s eleven-acre campus.

Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago played host to the Society of Fellows’ Gatherings Series in the first half of 2023. With its latest round of events, SOF continues to bring fellowship, culture, and discussion to friends across the country.

I riflettori si sono spesso accesi su Paul Manship (Fellow 1912 per la scultura), quindi ora ci rivolgiamo al suo collega: Albin Polasek. Fellow del 1913, Polasek era uno scultore ceco-americano che, come Manship, lavorava in uno stile neoclassico.

Marjorie Kreilick, a 1963 Fellow and the second woman to win a Rome Prize in painting, died on July 5, 2023, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Quando il compositore Lukas Foss (1952 Fellow) arrivò all’American Academy in Rome nel 1950, era appena all’inizio di una straordinaria carriera.

L’American Academy in Rome ha celebrato lo chef e imprenditore Massimo Bottura all’ultimo McKim Medal Gala, tenutosi a Villa Aurelia a Roma il 7 giugno 2023.

L’American Academy in Rome piange la scomparsa di Jim Melchert, celebre artista e ceramista che è stato nostro Direttore dal 1984 al 1988.

Il nuovo libro di memorie di Barbara Chase-Riboud, I Always Knew, inizia nel 1957, l’anno in cui si recò a Roma per una borsa di studio affiliata all’Accademia americana.