Upcoming events

May 14–November 9, 2025
Rome
Exhibition

Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape

AAR presents Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape, the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes from new vantage points.

May 28–August 24, 2025
Rome
Exhibition

Sublime Cliché: Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome

Sublime Cliché marks the third edition of the Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome, on view at MACRO and curated by Saverio Verini.

June 10–September 14, 2025
Rome
Exhibition

Wangechi Mutu – “Shavasana I” at the American Academy in Rome

AAR presents Shavasana I (2019) on the occasion of the solo exhibition Poemi della Terra Nera by Wangechi Mutu (2019 Resident) at Galleria Borghese. 

September 9, 2025
Rome
Presidential Lecture

Peter N. Miller – What Does it Mean to Think about ‘Conservation’ in Rome?

AAR President Peter N. Miller will deliver an online lecture on “What Does it Mean to Think about ‘Conservation’ in Rome?”

September 17, 2025
Rome
Lecture/Conversation

Jen Baird & Sophie Hay – Archaeology and Photography

Two archaeologists who have examined the use of photography in early archaeology will discuss how the technology prompted new ways of thinking about evidence in the study of the human past.

October 3, 2025
Milan
Lecture/Conversation

Book Launch: Women & Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape

In occasion of the launch of the book Women and Ruins, curators Caroline Goodson and Ilaria Puri Purini will be in conversation at the Fondazione Rovati in Milan.

October 9, 2025
Rome
Film Screening
Lecture/Conversation
Performance

Weeds Against Stones: The Resistance of Nature in Ruins

This participative workshop explores the hybrid formations of the vegetal world, from trees in walls to caves with layered accumulations and the many anomalous plants and minerals that sprung in crevices of buildings.

October 21, 2025
Rome
Material Environments

Andrea Brock – A New Environmental History of Early Rome and its Republic

This is the first in a series of six lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly between AAR and BSR over the course of the year.

November 6, 2025
New York
Benefit

New York Gala 2025

2025 New York Gala sigil

The next New York Gala will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2025 at the New York Public Library’s Bartos Forum.

November 10, 2025
New York
Workshop

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi – LAAAAAND!!! Curating Another Nation

This panel discussion, organized by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (2025 Italian Fellows), will reflect on how art and curating respond critically to a renewed and suspicious interest in the national dimension of culture.