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. Read the rest of this entry »
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? Read the rest of this entry »
Time: 31 July 2010, 7:45pm
Place: Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London Read the rest of this entry »
Time: until 31.06.10
Place: Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London
196A Piccadilly, W1J 9DY Read the rest of this entry »
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 Read the rest of this entry »
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 Read the rest of this entry »
The most important gate into the fort complex derives its name from the fact that it faces in the direction of the city of Lahore (now in Pakistan). Read the rest of this entry »
London 1895.
The Tarick-I-Rashidi; A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia.
3 genealogical tables (2 folding), folding map in pocket. pp. xxiv, 535. 8vo. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
