Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Sat 11 September 2010 to Sun 9 January 2011
Mellon Gallery (13)
This autumn, a landmark exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores the monumental artistic legacy of one of the world’s greatest literary epics: the 1000 year-old Persian ‘Book of Kings’, or Shahnameh. (more…)
Time: Mon 13 Sep 2010 – Tue 14 Sep 2010
Place: Oxford University Estates Directorate
The Bharat Britain conference will overturn the popular perception that Britain had a singular cultural identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The conference will showcase new research that explores South Asians’ important and far-reaching roles in Britain’s political and cultural life prior to Indian independence in 1947. It will reveal how South Asians became part of intellectual, political and social networks, such as the Bloomsbury circle and the BBC, cutting across boundaries of ‘race’, ‘nation’, ‘culture’ and ‘class’.
The conference will launch and make available for the first time a unique interactive database comprising several hundred entries on South Asians in Britain, and a facsimile exhibition ‘South Asians Making Britain: 1858-1950’.
Held in partnership with the British Library, this major international conference marks the culmination of the AHRC-funded research project ‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950’, led by the Open University in collaboration with the University of Oxford and King’s College, London.
Tickets: £60 / some concessions available
More info on the British Library web
Time: 18 September 2010 1:30 P.M.
Place: Brunei Gallery Room: B102
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG, UK (more…)
Time: 21- 25 January 2011
Place: Jaipur, India
Considered to be Asia’s leading literature event, it is a celebration of National and International writers and encompasses a range of activities including film, music and theatre.
The festival comprises of readings, talks, literary lunches, debates, performances, children’s workshops and interactive activities held in the beautiful heritage property, Diggi Palace in central Jaipur, Rajasthan. (more…)
Place: Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
Known around the world as the ‘Keir Collection’, Edmund de Unger’s collection of Islamic art will, over the coming years, enrich works belonging to the National Museums in Berlin’s Museum of Islamic Art as a group loan. The Keir Collection comprises works from nearly all periods and artistic styles from the core Islamic countries around the Mediterranean, from Iran and Central Asia.
Brocades and carpets, early medieval bronzes, exquisite rock crystal objects, priceless calligraphies, miniatures and elaborately adorned bookbindings all feature in the loan. One of its most striking attributes are its ceramics dating from all periods – one good reason alone for the world renown of this private collection. One-hundred-and-twelve of the 1500 works in total from various genres of art and decorative art are already in Berlin as a ‘foretaste’ of things to come, with the remainder due to follow at a later date. On 17 March this foretoken selection will go on show in the Pergamonmuseum in an exhibition entitled ‘Sammlerglück/A Collector’s Fortune’ and will give visitors an insight into the world of collectors and collecting: from where do the objects originate, what makes people collect Islamic art? What does the collector see in his collection and how is the value of the objects determined on the art market? (more…)
Time: 31 July 2010, 7:45pm
Place: Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London (more…)
Time: until 31.06.10
Place: Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London
196A Piccadilly, W1J 9DY (more…)
accompanied by Subhankar Banerjee on tabla
Time:7 p.m. 09.09.10
Place: The Engleman Recital Hall,
Baruch College, 55 Lexington Ave, New York 10010 (more…)
Indo- American Arts Council’s 7th Annual Exhibition
Time: 10.06.10 – 24.06.10
Place:Twelve Gates Gallery
305 Cherry St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19106 (more…)
Time: until 16.08.10
Place: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts, Paris
The exhibition presents the Buddhist heritage of Pakistan’s legends and monasteries.
The Paris exhibition commissioned by Pierre Cambon, head curator of the Guimet museum, replicates, in a modified form, the exhibition designed by Professor Michel Jansen and Doctor Christian Luczanits, presented under the name Gandhara.
The Gandhara is a former kingdom with a Hellenistic influence which spanned the North West provinces of today’s Pakistan. This civilisation contemporaneous with the Romans in the west and the Chinese Hans in the east, peaked between the 1st and 3rd century AD, in the era of the successors of Alexander the Great and the Kushan Empire.
The exhibition is organised by the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts and the National Art and Exhibition Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. (more…)