Past Events

Ten U.S. premieres by Italian and Italy-based artists, curated by 2025 Italian Fellows Francesco Urbano Ragazzi. Dreamlike and spectral, the program transforms darkness into a space of listening, guiding viewers from colonial pasts to imagined futures.

This participative workshop explores the hybrid formations of the vegetal world, from trees in walls to caves with layered accumulations and the many anomalous plants and minerals that sprung in crevices of buildings.

AAR and Galleria Borghese present six short films by the artist Wangechi Mutu (2019 Resident) and the filmmakers Nuotama Frances Bodomo and Wanuri Kahiu.

This cineconcert is a collaboration between composer David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident) and filmmaker Bill Morrison: a screening and live performance of darker. 

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, the American Academy in Rome hosts the interactive workshop The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist: Ritual Project.

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, the American Academy in Rome hosts a screening of The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist (2022).

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, AAR hosts a screening of The Black Italian Renaissance: African Presence in Art, an award-winning documentary written by journalist and screenwriter Francesca Priori and directed by Cristian Di Mattia.

A new documentary film, Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities, offers numerous directions based on interviews with Stanford University–based MacArthur Fellows and MacArthur Fellows who have also been fellows or residents at the American Academy in Rome.

The American Academy in Rome will host a screening of Tony Gerber’s film War Game (2024), which critically examines the complexities of conflict, strategy, and the human experience.

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.