Upcoming events

April 11, 2024
Rome
Exhibition

Miranda Mote – Botanical Autopsies: Plants and People

Color photograph of a hand holding a brush hovering over a plant leaf spread on a piece of paper

Botanical Autopsies is a public exhibition of botanical prints by Miranda Mote (2024 Fellow), made with the plants of the Non-Catholic Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome.

April 11, 2024
Rome
Exhibition

CONTINUITY MUTABILITY GENERATION

CONTINUITY MUTABILITY GENERATION is a collaborative exhibition by Zachary Fabri and Emily B. Frank (2024 Fellows) that considers the generative interplay of art making and art conservation.

April 15, 2024
Rome
Galileo Night Lecture

David Spergel – Physics as Aesthetics, Cosmology as a Historical Science: From Galileo to the Big Bang

Color photograph of an open book against a black background; the book is open to pages with drawings of the moon

The 2024 Galileo Night Lecture will welcome David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation, who will explore our understanding of the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to galaxies.

April 16, 2024
Fellow Shoptalks

Baldwin Giang & Mary-Evelyn Farrior

Graphic image with the words "2023-24 Fellow Shoptalks" in white letters on a pink background

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

April 17–19, 2024
Venice
Exhibition

Dread Scott – All African People’s Consulate

Color photograph of a hand holding an artist-designed passport

Dread Scott’s All African People’s Consulate is a functioning consulate for an imaginary Pan-African, Afrofuturist union of countries, promoting cultural and diplomatic relations.

April 17, 2024
Rome
Circolo Gianicolense Lecture

Iida Huitula – Jews and Gods in Antiquity: Lived Religion and Diversity of Identities

Color photograph of an outdoor scene with trees, bushes, and short Roman architectural ruins

Iida Huitula dives into the world of lived religion and the diversity of identities possible in ancient Judaism.

April 18, 2024
Rome
Lecture/Conversation

Aliza Wong – Reimagining Old and New Worlds: The American Academy in Rome

Black and white photo of three light skinned women in a library in 1933

For 130 years, AAR has opened its doors to American artists, architects, sculptors, art historians, writers, composers, designers, archaeologists, historians, and many other creative thinkers in the arts and the humanities who found inspiration and innovation in the Eternal City.

April 22, 2024
Fellow Shoptalks

Estefania Puerta Grisales & Shruti Swamy

Graphic image with the words "2023-24 Fellow Shoptalks" in white letters on a yellow background

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

April 23, 2024
Rome
Getty Global Lecture

Emre Gönlügür – Blue Anatolia: The Classical Heritage and Modern Imagination in Postwar Turkey

April 24, 2024
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni

Zachary Fabri & Emily B. Frank – On Art and Conservation

Zachary Fabri and Emily B. Frank (2024 Fellows) will discuss CONTINUITY MUTABILITY GENERATION, their collaborative exhibition that considers the generative interplay of art making and art conservation.