Chief of American Academy in Rome Is to Step Down

ROME — The president and chief executive of the American Academy in Rome, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, announced on Thursday that she would step down at the end of next year after nearly 25 years as leader of the independent research institution. “It’s been the great experience of my life,” Ms. Chatfield-Taylor, 67, said, adding that she witnessed the “transformative effect” of the city on generations of American artists and scholars. “We cannot say enough about how cultural diplomacy helps people,” she said. “You can’t declare war on a place you love.” Founded in the 1894 by the architect Charles Follen McKim as a place where the architects building America could learn from the classics, the...