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    Renzo Piano, a Senior Fellow of the Academy, inaugurates new Genoa bridge

    Built in record time, the structure replaces the viaduct that collapsed in 2018

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    A Message from the Director

    Condemning violence and bias and the marginalization of Black, Indigenous and all Peoples of Color.

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    The Academy remembers Marc Fumaroli

    A Distinguished Research Scholar here, he was a member of the Académie française and a professor at the Collège de France

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    New Fellows 2020–21

    The scholars who will join the Academy next year bring projects in architectural preservation, neuroscience, art, history and pre-history, and many other fields.

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    New publication

    “Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now” with text by David Freedberg

    From Gagosian / Rizzoli, based on the exhibition presented by Gagosian in partnership with English Heritage

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The Italian Academy of Columbia University

A center for advanced research in history, science, culture, and society; founded in 1991 by Columbia University together with the Republic of Italy.

FEATURED EVENTS

  • Fri, Aug 7, 2020
    10:00 am

Summer Online Festival

The Academy presents its first Summer Online Festival, starting August 7. All features will be free and open to the public on our website. First up, Metropolitan Opera General Director Peter Gelb...
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  • Tue, Sep 1, 2020
    1:00 pm

New Fellows 2020–21

The Italian Academy announces the Fellows chosen for 2020–2021, including the Weinberg Fellows in Architectural History and Preservation, the Alexander Bodini Research Fellow in Developmental and...
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