6 Nov Makart to Klimt - Austrian Painters and their Photographs, a conversation with photographer and photo historian Monika Faber on her work at the Photoinstitut Bonartes in Vienna, with commentary by Marco Delogu, curator of photographs at Rome's MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo.

11 Nov Voices of Tranquility. Silence in Art and Architecture, a lecture by Juhani Pallasmaa, professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and currently architect-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. Pallasmaa examines the role of architecture in eliminating noise and creating silence. Lecture at 18.00 at nearby Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Passeggiata del Gianicolo 10, www.irfrome.org.

American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, tel. 065852151, www.aarome.org.