The American Academy of Arts and Letters presented a reading of tributes over Zoom on Thursday, November 12, from 7 to 8 p.m. EST. A video recording is now available.

Billie Tsien on recommittment to the arts in times of vulnerability.

Peter Eisenman, David W. Blight, Richard Powers, and Bill Henderson receive top awards in Architecture, History, Literature, and Service to the Arts.

The Academy has cancelled all spring events in the interest of public health.

In the Green and The Loophole have won the 2020 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater.

Academy to induct thirteen new members in May 2020.

The Academy has awarded its 2019 Presidential Citation to Jim Pratzon, a drama and English teacher at Lyons Community School in Brooklyn.

On October 22, 2019, the Academy received the Archives Medal from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.

On Friday, December 13, 2019, at 7 p.m. Randy Cohen of Person Place Thing will interview Meredith Monk in the Academy Library. The event is free and open to the public but reservations are required.

In mid-May, Lorrie Moore, secretary, will induct eleven members into the 250-person organization and Billie Tsien, president, will induct five foreign honorary members.

Bhangin’ it and The Lucky Ones have won the 2019 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater.

The Academy has awarded its 2018 Presidential Citation to Gerry Irizarry, a design teacher at Urban Assembly Maker Academy in Manhattan.

Winners of the Gold Medals in Music and Biography, the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, and the Medal for Spoken Language.

A statement from the Board responding to sexual misconduct allegations against members.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has awarded its 2017 Presidential Citation to Graham Johnson, a music teacher at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in Manhattan.

Cody Upton has been appointed Executive Director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, beginning July 1, 2017. He will succeed Virginia Dajani, who is retiring after 27 years. Upton will be the fifth Executive Director in the Academy’s 119-year history.

In mid-May, Calvin Trillin, secretary, will induct fourteen newly elected members and President Yehudi Wyner will induct three new foreign honorary members.

What I Learned from People by Will Aronson and Hue Park received a Production Award.

The Academy has launched a new website. Please contact [email protected] with feedback.

The Academy will induct twelve new members into the 250-person organization: Peter Carey, Billy Collins, Sebastian Currier, Robert Frank, Joan Jonas, Jane Kramer, Paul Lansky, David Rakowski, David Remnick, David Salle, Pat Steir, and John Edgar Wideman.

Ensemble Échappé will play contemporary classical works by Billy Childs, Harold Meltzer, Kevin Puts, and Kurt Rohde, the winners of the 2015 Arts and Letters Awards in Music.

The 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater are awarded to Costs of Living by Timothy Huang; We Live in Cairo by Patrick and Daniel Lazour; and Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell.

Adam Haslett and Jesmyn Ward are awarded the Strauss Livings, which give writers an income of $100,000 a year for a period of two years so that they may devote their time exclusively to writing.

New York, February 8, 2012 – The winner of the 2012 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater was announced today by the American Academy of

January 22, 2009 – The poet J. D. McClatchy has been elected to a three-year term as president of the American Academy of Arts and