Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 05.19.17–06.02.18

  Exhibition

  Beyond Borders

  Whitworth Gallery of Art

  Manchester

• 09.25.17–05.07.18

  Exhibition

  Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg

  Met Fifth Avenue

  New York

• 11.24.17–05.13.18

  Exhibition

  The Human Figure in Islamic Art: Holy Men, Princes, and Commoners

  The David Collection

  Copenhagen

• 02.21–05.21.18

  Exhibition

  The Emperor’s Flowers, from the Bulb to the Carpet

  Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

  Lisbon

• 02.24–08.05.18

  Exhibition

  The Prince and the Shah: Royal Portraits from Qajar Iran

  Freer-Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution

  Washington, DC

• 03.10–06.02.18

  Exhibition

  The World of the Fatimids

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

• 03.16–07.09.18

  Exhibition

  Binding the Clouds: The Art of Central Asian Ikat

  The Textile Museum

  Washington, DC

• 03.20–06.24.18

  Exhibition

  Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia

  Liang Yi Museum

  Hong Kong

• 03.21–06.02.18

  Exhibition

  Mouneer al Shaarani: Calligraphic Rhythms

  Box Freiraum, Boxhagener Platz

  Berlin

• 04.24.18

  Special Event

  Renata Holod, Tools of the Trade: Geometry, Pharmacy, Medicine and Alchemy

  World Cafe, Walnut Street

  Philadelphia

  5:30 pm

• 04.24.18

  Lecture

  Kamal Boullata, Reading the Arabesque

  Silsila: Center for Material Histories

  NYU, New York

  6:30 pm

• 04.25.18

  Lecture

  SOAS Islamic Art Circle, Dr Ana Cabrera-Lafuente, Islamic Textiles from Iberia: Re-evaluating Their Role in the Mediterranean Context

  SOAS

  University of London

  7:00 pm

• 04.25.18

  Lecture

  José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, The Geometry of Color and the Word in the Work of Kamal Boullata

  Silsila: Center for Material Histories

  NYU, New York

  6:30 pm

• 04.26.18

  Lecture

  Kamal Boullata, Journeying Through Transparency

  Silsila: Center for Material Histories

  NYU, New York

  6:30 pm

• 04.26.18

  Lecture

  Cailah Jackson, Illuminated Islamic Manuscripts of Konya, 1270s - 1330s

  Brunei Gallery, SOAS

  London

  5:30 pm

• 04.27.18

  Lecture

  Susan Stronge, Mughal Tiles in the Reign of Shah Jahan

  Nihon Room, Pembroke College

  Cambridge

  5:30 pm

• 04.28.18

  Lecture

  Jere Bacharach, Excavating Fustat: The Role of George T. Scanlon and Others

  Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square

  Cairo

  6:00 pm

• 05.02.18

  Lecture

  Renata Holod, City in the Islamic World: Theory, Plan, Law, and Use

  Penn Museum

  Philadelphia

  6:00 pm

• 05.02.18

  Lecture

  Nadia Ali, Image-making and Ancient Fiction in an Early Islamic Bath-house

  Silsila: Center for Material Histories

  NYU, New York

  6:30 pm

• 05.03.18

  Lecture

  Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Persian Carpets and Renaissance Revivals: A Cross-Cultural Itinerary

  Courtauld Institute of Art

  London

  6:00 pm

• 05.03.18

  Lecture

  Valerie Gonzalez, Re-examining the Genesis of Mughal Painting

  Brunei Gallery, SOAS

  London

  5:30 pm

• 05.04.18

  Lecture

  Joachim Meyer, The Human Figure in Islamic Art: Remarks on the Exhibition in the David Collection

  Thomas Grey Room, Pembroke College

  Cambridge, UK

  5:30 pm

• 05.04.18

  Forum

  Proximate Orientalism: Habsburg Bosnia Revisited

  Institut für Kunstgeschichte

  University of Vienna

  9:30 am

• 05.04–05.05.18

  Conference

  Intersections: Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism

  University of Texas

  Dallas

  10:00 am

• 05.06–09.09.18

  Exhibition

  In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art

  Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  California

• 05.07.18

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Aleksandar Staničić, Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Transition Architecture of Postwar Ex-Yugoslavia

  MIT, Room 3-133

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 05.10–09.30.18

  Exhibition

  Ottoman Arcadia: The Hamidian Expedition to the Land of Tribal Roots (1886)

  ANAMED, Merkez Han

  Istanbul

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  Renata Holod, Tools of the Trade: Geometry, Pharmacy, Medicine and Alchemy

  World Cafe, Walnut Street

  Philadelphia

  5:30 pm

  04.24.18

• Special Event

  Opening Festival Weekend, Middle East Galleries

  Penn Museum

  Philadelphia

  10:00 am

  04.21–04.22.18

• Special Event

  Tales of Two Cities: The Leipzig-Damascus Coffeehouse (Film and Talk)

  Adam House Theatre, 3 Chambers Street

  Edinburgh

  5:00 pm

  04.03.18

• Special Event

  Persian New Year: Burns and Hafez - Bards Apart?

  V&A

  London

  7:00 pm

  03.21.18