Whom You Know: The Met Announces Schedule of Informal Curatorial Talks about Middle Eastern Art Our Coverage Sponsored by Table D’Hote

Monday, February 27, 2017

The Met Announces Schedule of Informal Curatorial Talks about Middle Eastern Art Our Coverage Sponsored by Table D’Hote

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In response to current events, Metropolitan Museum curators and researchers will give informal ten-minute talks on Friday mornings at 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. through the end of March, in the galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art and of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, about works of art of their choice. The chats will be followed by discussion with visitors. Each program will focus on a different work of art created between the fourth millennium B.C. and the 21st century that has particular resonance to the present day.

A broad range of topics will be discussed over the span of the program: ancient trade, the concept of home, cultural exchange, customary law, demons and deities, kingship, magical beliefs, migration, the military, multicultural societies, prayer, royal patronage of the arts, and scientific and technological advances.

Ancient regions represented include: Anatolia, Assyria, Babylonia, China, Mesopotamia, Parthia, Persia, and Sumer, among others. Cultures to be discussed include: Abbasid, Seljuq, Timurid, Safavid, and Ottoman. Modern countries represented are Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen, among others.

Other lectures in the series are described in the Museum's RumiNations blog.

These programs are free with Museum admission.

The list of upcoming talks follows. Schedule subject to change.

March 3

11:00 am

Courtney Stewart, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Islamic Art

Timur—The Man and the Legend (Gallery 450, 455)

Blair Fowlkes-Childs, Research Associate, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Herakles at Dura Europos in Syria (Gallery 406)

11:30 am

Maryam Ekhtiar, Associate Curator, Department of Islamic Art

Iran and Europe: Artistic Exchanges (Gallery 462)

Yelena Rakic, Associate Curator, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Image and Text: A Third Millennium B.C. Monument (The Ushumgal Stele) (Gallery 403)

March 10

11:00 am

Alzahraa K. Ahmed, Fellow, Department of Islamic Art

Iraq and Central Arab Lands: Abbasid Artistic Innovations (Gallery 451)

Nancy Highcock, Hagop Kevorkian Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Old Assyrian Merchants in Anatolia (Gallery 403)

11:30 am

Sheila Canby, Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge, Department of Islamic Art

The Book of Kings, the Iranian National Epic (Gallery 455, 462)

Sarah Graff, Associate Curator, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

A Royal Palace at Tell Halaf, Syria (Gallery 400)

March 17

11:00 am

Alzahraa K. Ahmed, Fellow, Department of Islamic Art

Sheathing the Word of God: Early Qur'ans (Gallery 450)

Michael Seymour, Assistant Curator, Ancient Near Eastern Art

An Assyrian Prince from Nineveh, Iraq (Gallery 400)

11:30 am

Courtney Stewart,Senior Research Assistant, Department of Islamic Art

Looking Closely at The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (Gallery 462)

Anne Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi, Hagop Kevorkian Research Associate, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

The Master of Animals in Ancient Iran (Gallery 404)

March 24

11:00 am

Deniz Beyazit, Assistant Curator, Department of Islamic Art

Ceramic Tiles and Decoration in Iran and Syria (Gallery 454, 455)

Miriam Said, Frances Markoe Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Lamashtu and Pazuzu: Demons in Ancient Iraq (Gallery 406)

11:30 am

Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints

Home is a Foreign Place (Gallery 464)

Nancy Highcock, Hagop Kevorkian Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Elizabeth Knott, Hagop Kevorkian Research Associate, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

A Talking Frog? Justice and Commerce in Ancient Iraq (Gallery 406)

March 31

11:00 am

Deniz Beyazit, Assistant Curator, Department of Islamic Art

The Damascus Room (Gallery 461)

Anastasia Amrhein, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Clay Figurines from Babylonia, Ancient Iraq (Gallery 404)

11:30 am

Martina Rugiadi, Assistant Curator, Department of Islamic Art

Iran: Ceramics and Technological Revolutions (Gallery 453)

Kim Benzel, Acting Associate Curator in Charge, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Concepts of Past, Present, and Future in Ancient Iran (Gallery 402)

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