Past Events

Emre Gönlügür (2024 Affiliated Fellow) will discuss his revisionist reading of the Blue Anatolia debate, an artistic and intellectual movement that developed in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s. 

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.

For 130 years, AAR has opened its doors to American artists, architects, sculptors, art historians, writers, composers, designers, archaeologists, historians, and many other creative thinkers in the arts and the humanities who found inspiration and innovation in the Eternal City.

Iida Huitula dives into the world of lived religion and the diversity of identities possible in ancient Judaism.

Dread Scott’s All African People’s Consulate is a functioning consulate for an imaginary Pan-African, Afrofuturist union of countries, promoting cultural and diplomatic relations.

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.

The 2024 Galileo Night Lecture will welcome David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation, who will explore our understanding of the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to galaxies.

CONTINUITY MUTABILITY GENERATION is a collaborative exhibition by Zachary Fabri and Emily B. Frank (2024 Fellows) that considers the generative interplay of art making and art conservation.

Botanical Autopsies is a public exhibition of botanical prints by Miranda Mote (2024 Fellow), made with the plants of the Non-Catholic Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome.