Artists Making Books looks at the relationship between arts, graphic design, publishers, and books—ultimately exploring their physicality and their power of circulation.
This performance combines poetry and letters to show how Langston Hughes’s encounters with borders both abroad and at home in the 1920s created the artist who would speak to Americans about race for over forty years.
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.
At the Edge of Empire: The Fate of Foreign Affairs; an evening with Edward Wong of the New York Times
Edward Wong is diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times and author of the acclaimed memoir, At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China.
Talking Architecture is a series of talks in collaboration with La Sapienza and Casa dell’Architettura dedicated to new orientations and outstanding achievements in contemporary American architecture.
Rubina Raja – Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée
Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.
“Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities” at Cooper Union
A dozen fellows of the MacArthur Foundation and the American Academy in Rome discuss their approaches to intellectual inquiry in a new documentary film, Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities.
Rubina Raja – A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East
Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.
Rubina Raja – The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again
Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.