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Dike Blair is the 2010–11 Chuck Close Rome Prize Fellow in the Visual Arts. He is a painter, sculptor, and writer as well as a senior critic in the Department of Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Why do so many Italians leave their country, and what draws them to America? Four student filmmakers from L’Accademia dell’ Immagine in L’Aquila—displaced by the devastating April 2009 earthquake that struck Abruzzo—explored this question as they found themselves completing their studies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In July 2010, Karl Kirchwey (1995 Fellow) began his three-year term as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director for the School of Fine Arts at the American Academy in Rome. In an email conversation, Pamela Hovland (2006 Fellow) talked with Kirchwey about his return to the Academy, the influence his Fellowship year had on his work, his current reading list, and what he does when he cannot sleep at 3:00 AM in Rome.

Laurie Rush is the Booth Family Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation, and is the first to be featured in our 2011 "Glimpse" series.

The American Academy in Rome, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, will present a reading and international conference on Eugenio Montale and Italian Poetry in the Twentieth Century on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.

Marco Raparelli (born in Rome, 1975; lives and works in Rome) is one of the few artists in Italy who has used the style typical of comic illustration to create his own personal visual language.

Following a successful run at Rome’s Museo Carlo Bilotti last June, the exhibition Philip Guston, Roma will be on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, from February 12 to May 15, 2011.

The American Academy opened its doors, windows, and communal spaces to a public of more than four hundred on Thursday 20 January 2011 to highlight the work of fifteen of its Italian Affiliated Fellows in the Arts in a show called ACCADEMIA ° STANZE ° PERSONE.

The Trustees, Fellows, and Staff of the American Academy in Rome mourn the loss of Christina G. Huemer, beloved Drue Heinz Librarian Emerita and spirited leader of the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library for fifteen years (1993–2008).

The Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world’s leading chamber music ensembles, returned to the American Academy in Rome for a series of three concerts at its Villa Aurelia on Friday-Sunday January 14-16, 2011.

“You know, it’s heavily restored,” practically whispered the FAAR in ancient studies as a large, animated group of classicist and archaeologist Fellows and alums of the American Academy passed the iconic façade of the Alamo.

Each November, the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome gather in New York City for their Annual Meeting, various committee meetings, and two important events: the Trustees Emeriti Luncheon and the Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture.

The American Academy’s fall 2010 series of walks and site visits for Fellows concluded on Tuesday 21 December, with a behind-the-scenes look at Rome’s most elegant public library, the Biblioteca Casanatense on Via S. Ignazio.

The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, has selected Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome and a 1984 Fellow, to receive its 2010 Vincent Scully Prize, one of the most significant distinctions in the architecture and design fields.

Best wishes from the Fellows, Staff, and Trustees of the American Academy in Rome.

Auguri dai Borsisti, dal Personale e dal Consiglio di amministrazione dell'American Academy in Rome.

The Russian visual artists Ivan Govorkov and Elena Gubanova, a husband and wife based in Saint Petersburg, have been working and exhibiting together since 1990.

Biscotti is a newly released cookbook written by Mona Talbott, executive chef of the American Academy in Rome’s Sustainable Food Project and pastry cook, Mirella Misenti.

Luigi Moretti (1907-1973) is widely considered the most important Italian architect of the 20th century.

The Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program (EHP) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with two lectures copresented with the American Academy in Rome on November 23 and 24, featuring the writer David Macaulay and the artist Anna Schuleit.

Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers college and university teachers opportunities to study a var