Past Events

May 20, 2023
Rome
Tour

Open House Roma 2023

Graphic design element in green, yellow, and black with the words Open House Roma 20-28.05 2023 Equilibrio

AAR will participate in the eleventh edition of Open House Roma, offering guided tours in Italian of the McKim, Mead & White Building.

May 16–17, 2023
Rome
Conference/Symposium

Decentering the Mediterranean

Ancient painted wall mural of the Roman empire in the broader Mediterranean, foregrounding Asia Minor, Eastern Europe, and Greece on the right; Italy, Gaul, and Spain on the left, and northern Africa along the bottom

The first seminar organized by our inaugural Getty Global Affiliated Fellows will engage the boundaries of Mediterranean history, addressing themes and issues that continue to receive relatively little scholarly attention.

May 15, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Alexa Vaughn & Alice Visentin

Simple graphic design image with white text reading 2022-23 fellow shoptalks on a rich medium dark blue background

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.

May 13, 2023
Rome
Tour

Notte dei Musei

Graphically designed element featuring a crescent moon above a sea of people outlined with white lines, against a dark blue background

AAR is participating in the thirteenth edition of La Notte dei Musei, a city-wide initiative in which museums open to the public in the evening

May 8, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Tony Cokes & Christopher Stark

Simple graphic design image with white text reading 2022-23 fellow shoptalks on a rich medium dark red background

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.

May 4, 2023
Rome
Christina Huemer Lecture

“Someone other than oneself…”: Translation, Transubstantiation, and Talking through Text

Color photograph of a street book stall in Milan, with dozens of books lining a wooden open topped shelf

Join us for an intimate conversation between three friends—Andrea Bajani, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Michael F. Moore—about what it means to translate books, beings, and existences.

April 26, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Katherine Jenkins, Parker Sutton & Stephanie Leitzel

Simple graphic design image with white text reading 2022-23 fellow shoptalks on a rich medium dark green background

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.

April 24, 2023
New York
Conversations/Conversazioni
Rome Prize Ceremony

2023 Arthur & Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony

Graphic element promoting the Rome Prize competiton: against a bright orange field are horizontal, parallel strips of letters, numbers, and other symbols related to music, architecture, design, and other disciplines

Please join us on Monday, April 24 as we celebrate the 2023–24 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows at the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, taking place in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York.

April 20, 2023
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni

June Jordan and Building Justice in Design

Black and white reproduction of a bird's eye view of upper Manhattan, with large towers interspersed among the lower-rise buildings

 

AAR’s spring exhibition, June Jordan, The Poetry of Design, will open with a Conversations/Conversazioni on equity and justice in design, which Jordan helped catalyze by foregrounding the rights and voices of disenfranchised communities.

April 20–June 11, 2023
Rome
Exhibition

June Jordan, The Poetry of Design

Two adjacent images: on the left is a photograph of the head and torso of a dark skinned woman in profile, with a red filter covering the image; on the left is a black and white photograph of the same woman shown seated on stairs on a concrete embankment on the Tiber River

This exhibition highlights for the first time how the poet and June Jordan (1971 Fellow) foregrounded the impact of urban space on lived experience in her work to advocate improved affordable housing, gender equality, and racial justice.