Gendel's work was the subject of dual retrospective exhibitions at the Museo Carlo Bilotti and the American Academy in Rome in 2011."Life and work of American photographer Milton Gendel celebrated in two exhibitions", ArtDaily, October 26, 2011." Photos: Milton Gendel's Society Portraits", Vanity Fair, October 10, 2011. He had his first American exhibition in New York in 2008.Cathy Horyn, "Milton Gendel: The Fine Print", The New York Times, May 1, 2008. Photographs and diaries from Gendel's time in Rome were published in the 2022 book Just Passing Through: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday, edited by Cullen Murphy.
