Harvard University Art Museums present a gallery talk led by
Mary McWilliams
Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.
Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.
This talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, which is on view through January 7, 2018.
Image: `Abbas Shirazi, Pen Box with European Woman and Eagles in Medallions, Iran, 1878–79. Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar, 2014.355.
Link: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-qajar-lacquer-as-a-medium-of-exchange
Contact: 617-495-9400
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20170925T163000Z DTEND:20170925T170000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR