Past Events

Drawing on their extensive life and work experiences, Erica Hunt (2024 Fellow) and Lina Pallotta will discuss collaborations across various communities, including visual artists, poets, and musicians.

Talking Architecture is a series of talks in collaboration with La Sapienza and Casa dell’Architettura dedicated to new orientations and outstanding achievements in contemporary American architecture.

Open Studios showcases the work in progress of seventeen Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows at the American Academy in Rome.

Nico Muhly’s To the Body is an immersive soundscape created for Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust, an exhibition curated by Alexandra Munroe in Venice.

One of the highest-profile cultural events of the social calendar in Rome, the McKim Medal Gala honors individuals whose work has contributed significantly to the arts and humanities internationally.

Open Stacks offers an overview of the ongoing research projects of Rome Prize and Getty Global Fellows in the humanities at the American Academy in Rome.

AAR will host a seminar and concert honoring the life and work of the archaeologist Malcolm (“Mac”) Bell III, who died in January of this year.

Xu Bing and Ornella De Nigris will explore the different resonances of making in the West and the East, and about the Academy’s commission of The Road, currently on view.

This evening of readings and screenings will explore the challenges of transforming, adapting, and modifying text in relation to other media such as films, music, and podcasts.

Evonne Levy looks at debates about bronze and other black stony materials in the milieu of Gianlorenzo Bernini.