AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME

The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. The Academy awards the Rome Prize to a select group of artists and scholars, after an application process that begins in the fall of each year. The winners, announced in the spring, are invited to Rome to pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovation.

Between 2009 and 2013, THE OFFICE produced the American Academy in Rome’s annual Cabaret in New York—a celebration of the program curated by Rome Prize winner Laurie Anderson. These events, held at the Angel Orensanz Center, a landmarked art and performance space in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, featured performances and presentations by Rome Prize winners and other friends of the program; sit-down family-style dinners for 300 prepared by Founding Chef of the Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Project Mona Talbott (we will never forget the tortellini in brodo); video and art installations; and other bits of pomp, circumstance, and mischief. Participants included Anderson, David Lang, Carrie Mae Weems, Lou Reed, Don Byron, Laurie Simmons, John Kelly, Nico Muhly, Mark Stewart, and many others.

American Academy in Rome website