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For a full six weeks and in eight major events—from 5 November through 21 December 2010—Rome is enjoying the 47th iteration of the Nuova Consonanza music festival. The unifying theme of this year’s program is “Romantik.”

“The ‘Public’ Library in the Italian Renaissance” by Christopher S. Celenza (1994 Fellow).

The Academy has assembled a flexible network of arts and humanities Advisors to whom the AAR community can turn for information and guidance, including scholars, artists, writers, galleristi and others—all based or largely based in Rome.

A great crowd turned out to celebrate the American Academy in Rome’s 2010 Cabaret, curated by Academy Trustees Laurie Anderson, RAAR’06, and Laurie Simmons, RAAR’05.

The Cabaret will take place Tuesday 26 October, 2010, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on New York's Lower East Side.

The American Academy in Rome, in collaboration with the Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, is pleased to present Betty Woodman: Roman Fresco/Pleasures and Places, an exhibition of selected recent works in ceramic and on canvas.

The American Academy in Rome proudly announces that Laurie Anderson (2006 Resident) will both curate and perform at the upcoming Cabaret in New York on October 26, 2010.

On Monday 27 September the Friends of the Academy in Italy gathered to welcome new AAR Director Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR’94 and the new class of Academy Fellows.

“It was off the proverbial hook.” That was how AAR Mellon Professor Corey Brennan (1988 Fellow) described The 1960 Rome Olympic Games Conference, which he organized under the auspices of the Academy for September 30–October 2.

Featuring Fellows, Residents and friends of the American Academy in Rome, this year's Cabaret at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York City on October 26 promises to be packed with vivid work by some of today’s most exciting artists.

The American Academy in Rome welcomes the first two of five Italian fellows who will live and work at the Academy this year. Earlier this month, PhD candidate Marco Rossati and artist Marco Raparelli arrived to join the AAR community and settle in to their respective study and studio.

One of the most prized traditions of the American Academy in Rome is its series of walks and talks, a collaborative enterprise where Fellows explore the city or (often) points further afield under expert direction by one or more group leaders.

The deadline for the next Rome Prize competition is November 1, 2010, with an extended deadline of November 15, 2010, for an additional fee.

The 25th of August 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Rome Summer Olympics.

Alex MacLean, a 2004 Fellow in landscape architecture, and David Friedman, 1989 Fellow in history of art and a 2004 Resident, met at the Academy in 2004.

The American Academy in Rome is proud to present The 1960 Rome Olympic Games Conference, a comprehensive forum commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics.

Kristina Neumann, a PhD candidate in the Classics Department of University of Cincinnati, offered the following reflections on her experiences in June and July as a member of the Academy’s Howard Comfort FAAR’29 Summer Program in Roman Pottery.

On Tuesday July 27, 2010 the American Academy in Rome and National Public Radio cohosted a public program on “The Future of News in the Digital World.”

Lisa Bielawa is the 2010 Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize winner and the author of this tribute celebrating Martin Brody’s contributions to the American Academy in Rome.

The American Academy, in collaboration with its (very near) neighbors at the Giardino della Mostra dell’Acqua Paola, was a sponsor of the seventh edition of the multimedia event “n[ever]land: percorsi al digitale.”