Past Events

November 17, 2025
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

"In all its wild forms": leaving the known to make meaning

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

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

November 13, 2025
New York
Film Screening

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi – TUTTAUNANOTTE. An Italian Cinematic Showcase

tuttaunanotte

Ten U.S. premieres by Italian and Italy-based artists, curated by 2025 Italian Fellows Francesco Urbano Ragazzi. Dreamlike and spectral, the program transforms darkness into a space of listening, guiding viewers from colonial pasts to imagined futures.

November 10, 2025
New York
Symposium

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.

Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

The Social Life of Objects

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

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

November 6, 2025
New York
New York Gala

New York Gala After Party

The annual New York Gala celebrates the extraordinary innovation, scholarship, and exchange of ideas that have taken place at the Academy since 1894. Proceeds from the evening support the Academy, which provides time and space for the world’s best thinkers, scholars, and artists to create and imagine a better future.

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 3, 2025
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Undefined Spaces: Between Image and Relief

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

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

October 27, 2025
Information Session

Rome Prize Information Session: Online

2025 Rome Prize Information Session

Please join us on Monday, October 27 for an online Rome Prize Information Session, taking place on Zoom. All prospective Rome Prize applicants are welcome.

October 27, 2025
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

The Art of Rest: Bodies, Ghosts, and Belonging in Rome

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

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

October 21, 2025
Rome
Material Environments

Andrea Brock – Rome at its Core: A New History of Early Rome and its Republic

Andrea Brock

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