Upcoming and Ongoing Events

08.28.18–01.27.19

Exhibition

Emperors & Jewels: Treasures of the Indian Courts from the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto
09.01–12.23.18

Exhibition

A Nomad's Art: Kilims of Anatolia

Textile Museum, George Washington University

Washington, DC
09.07.18–01.27.19

Exhibition

Collecting Calligraphy: Arts of the Islamic World

Cincinnati Art Museum

Ohio
09.08.18–03.03.19

Exhibition

Splendour and Bliss: Arts from the Islamic World

Gemeente Museum

The Hague
09.22.18–01.13.19

Exhibition

Armenia!

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York
09.22.18–01.06.19

Exhibition

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

de Young Museum

San Francisco
09.22.18–02.10.19

Exhibition

Transforming Traditions: The Arts of 19th-century Iran

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto
10.13.18–01.13.19

Exhibition

Syria, Then and Now: Stories from Refugees a Century Apart

Brooklyn Museum

New York
10.16–10.19.18

Workshop

Understanding the Book Structure and Binding of Islamic Manuscripts

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto
10.19.18–01.06.19

Exhibition

The Fabric of India

Cincinnati Art Museum

Ohio
10.22.18–03.01.19

Exhibition

In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding, ca. 1575-1890

Butler Library, Columbia University

New York
10.23.18

Lecture

Matthew Gillman, The Second-Hand Binding

Butler Library, Columbia University

New York

6:00 pm
10.25.18

Lecture

York Islamic Art Circle: Ladan Akbarnia, The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World: New Perspectives

University of York

York

6:30 pm
10.25.18

Lecture

York Islamic Art Circle: Owen Wright, Seeing Sound

Berrick Saul Auditorium, University of York

United Kingdom

6:30 pm
10.29.18–03.24.19

Exhibition

Clouds and Gold Dust: Decorated Papers from the Ettinghausen Collection

The Met Fifth Avenue

New York
10.30.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Imran bin Tajudeen, Transcultural Agency in Javanese Mosques

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
10.31.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Hiba Abid, Remembering Medina and Invoking the Prophet Through the Images of the Dala'il al-Khayrat

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.06.18

Special Event

Transforming Traditions: Curator's Tour with Ulrike al-Khamis

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto

6:30 pm
11.07.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Ittai Weinryb, Votive Bodies: Wax and Beyond in Medieval Mediterranean Devotional Practices

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.08.18

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Ünver Rüstem, Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage

Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
11.08.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Will Kwiatkowski, Royal Writing: The Architectural Inscriptions of the Bahmani Sultanate

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.08.18

Lecture

Kaveh Askari, Photography, Cinema, and Royal Painting in Qajar Iran

Aga Khan Musuem

Toronto

1:00 pm
11.14.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Adam Bursi, Matters of Taste: Sensory Experience within Early Islamic Pilgrimage

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.18.18

Lecture

Talinn Grigor, Of Historicity and Historical (Un)Truth in Contemporary Iranian Art

Aga Khan Musuem

Toronto

1:00 pm
11.22.18

Lecture

Cambridge Lectures in Islamic Art: Lale Uluç, Illustrated Copies of the Works of ‘Ali Shir Nava’i in Istanbul Libraries

Pembroke College

Cambridge

5:30 pm
11.23.18–02.13.19

Exhibition

Syria Matters

Museum of Islamic Art

Doha
11.28.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Clare Davies, Siah Armanjani: Everyday Magic in Iranian Modern Art

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
12.05.18

Lecture

SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Ellen Kenney, Imagining Things: Damascus and Material Culture under the Mamluks

SOAS

London
12.06.18

Lecture

Bita Pourvash, Persian Art in Canada: Early Collections and Exhibitions

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto

1:00 pm
12.07.18

Workshop

Cities 2: Zafar--Material History of a Buried South Arabian City on the Eve of Islam

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

9:00 am
02.07.19

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Gül Kale, Drawings and Models: Architectural Processes in a Seventeenth Century Book on Ottoman Architecture

Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
03.14.19

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Yves Porter, The Concept of ‘Persianate’ as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Décor

Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
04.04.19

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Ridha Moumni, The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia

Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm

Past events

Workshop

Understanding the Book Structure and Binding of Islamic Manuscripts

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto

10.16–10.19.18
Workshop

Heritage Revisited: Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

University of Vienna, Institut for Art History

Vienna
10:00 am
09.20–09.21.18

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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

Matthew Gillman, The Second-Hand Binding

York Islamic Art Circle: Owen Wright, Seeing Sound

AKPIA Lecture Series: Ünver Rüstem, Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage

SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Ellen Kenney, Imagining Things: Damascus and Material Culture under the Mamluks

AKPIA Lecture Series: Gül Kale, Drawings and Models: Architectural Processes in a Seventeenth Century Book on Ottoman Architecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Yves Porter, The Concept of ‘Persianate’ as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Décor

AKPIA Lecture Series: Ridha Moumni, The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia

Past events

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