Past Events

November 8, 2017
New York
New York Gala

2017 Fall Gala Honoring Tony Kushner

2017 New York Gala

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 7, 2017
Rome
East and West

Richard Powell – Resurrection and Respiration: Two Sculptures by Edmonia Lewis and Francesco Pezzicar

November 7–December 4, 2017
New York
Exhibition

Now Here Is Nowhere: Six Artists from the American Academy in Rome

November 6, 2017
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Bissera Pentcheva – Reanimating the Past: The Lost Voice of Hagia Sophia

Bissera Pentcheva - Re-Animating the Past: The Lost Voice of Hagia Sophia

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.

October 31, 2017
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni

Gary Hilderbrand & Alberto Iacovoni – Imagining the Vegetal City: The Surface Is Alive

Gary Hilderbrand with Alberto Iacovoni – Imagining the Vegetal City: The Surface Is Alive

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

October 24, 2017
Rome
Lecture/Conversation

Jeanne Gang – Materials That Connect

October 20, 2017
Los Angeles
Information Session

Rome Prize Information Session: Los Angeles

Thursday, October 19, 2017–9:00 AM–6:00 PM
Rome
East and West

The Political Power of Sacred Texts

October 16, 2017
Rome
East and West

Lindsay Harris – Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata: Photography and a Southern Italian Town

Sunday, October 15, 2017–10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Rome
Tour

Giornata FAI d’Autunno