Cultural Academies
Kites and spinning tops, with Chinese origins, have been present in Japan for more than 1,200 years.
Despite Japan's hi-tech culture, there are still thousands of these toys being produced using traditional materials...
The acclaimed Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra offers two concerts at the American Academy's Villa Aurelia building, concluding its week-long residency.
The repertoire performed by the ensemble w...
Multi-faceted exhibition entitled Milk Revolution comprises work by current AAR Prize Fellows and a selection of invited international artists from several disciplines, including collaborative projects installed in vario...
Works from the collection of the long-established Swiss financial institution BSI are on display at Villa Maraini, home of the Swiss Institute in Rome.
The works include pieces by important international artists such...
With the exhibition Il Cielo sopra Roma: German Painters and Italian landscape, the Casa di Goethe presents some of its most precious art works, both oil paintings and drawings, some of which have never been on display b...
A selection of events taking place in January
14-16 Jan. A three-day workshop entitled Adriatic Connections: The Adriatic as a Threshold to Byzantium (c.600–1453) organised in conjunction with the British School...
Swedish choir performs traditional hyms in both Italian cities
For the fifth consecutive year, Sweden's embassy in Italy presents one of the most popular traditions on the Swedish calendar: the feast of S. Lucia whic...
Traditional Japanese culture is celebrated in the photographs of Sanjiro Minamikawa who spent 20 years documenting rituals at the Ise Grand Shrine dedicated to Amaterasu-ōmikami, a goddess of the sun and the univers...
This annual contemporary music festival focuses on electro-acoustic this year, as well as on music from eastern Europe and on women musicians.
The inaugural event is at the French Academy Villa Medici on 12 Nov with t...
Exhibition organised by academy's first woman director
The Egyptian museum in Rome's Egyptian Academy has launched an exhibition relating to the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamon whose tomb was discovered by British archae...
Held on the centenary of world war one, Giù le armi! is an international conference and exhibition that draws on the words of Pope Francis "peace takes more courage than war", underlining the importance of pe...
Organised by the American University of Rome (AUR), the Voice Professionals Italy present Shakespearean Sonnets of Love, a performance whose proceeds will fund a scholarship in memory of former AUR professor James Walsto...
The communication and English department of the American University of Rome presents Roman laughter and why we laugh, a lecture with Mary Beard, Britain’s most celebrated classicist, on Thursday 16 October at 19.00...
The British School at Rome presents a conversation between British artist Richard Deacon and British architect Eric Parry, accompanied by an exhibition entitled 3 - 2 = 1 : Bridge, Bangle & Cornice.
Deacon and Par...
American artist Grear Patterson uses romanticised nostalgia for lost innocence and childhood rituals in his exhibition entitled Forest Theater.
The show is named after the place that provided the artist with his most...
The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici presents The Baroque Underworld. Vice and Destitution in Rome, an exhibition focusing on the darker side of Baroque Rome, including its slums, taverns and brothels.
The...
An exhibition at the German Academy in Rome compares the work of German portrait and documentary photographer August Sander with that of Swiss photographer and cameraman Helmar Lerski.
Sander (1876-1964) is considered...
Celebrating 30 Years of Diplomatic Relations between the US and the Holy See
The US embassy to the Holy See celebrates 30 years of diplomatic relations with the Vatican, with a photographic exhibition at the American...
The American University of Rome presents The recent discoveries of the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Abusir, a lecture by Jan Turek on 29 September at 18.30.
The talk by Turek, archaeologist and lecturer at the Cze...
Andrea Carandini, archaeologist, author and president of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI), presents Il paesaggio e il patrimonio storico e artistico dell'Italia. La visione del FAI per i prossimi dieci anni.
Carandin...
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