Past Events

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.

Please join us on Thursday, May 23 for an online Rome Prize Information Session, taking place on Zoom. All prospective Rome Prize applicants are welcome.

This exhibition is a newly commissioned show of work by the artist Xu Bing (2024 Resident) at the American Academy in Rome.

AAR and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia present Soundscapes, an evening of contemporary music performances by Italian and American DJs/musicians/producers.

Expodemic is the second edition of the Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome designed to spread out from the Palazzo Esposizioni Roma into the fabric of the city.

Zakarya Khelif (2024 Affiliated Fellow) will speak about his research focusing on the Romano-African domestic architecture, particularly elite residences, in the Roman colony of Tipasa of Mauretaniae Caesariensis, in present-day Algeria.