CITIES WORKSHOP 2: ZAFAR MATERIAL HISTORY OF A BURIED SOUTH ARABIAN CITY ON THE EVE OF ISLAM

The ‘crowned king’ being excavated in 2008 from Stone Bulding at Zafar (photo. Yule). 

Located in the rocky highlands of Yemen, Zafār was one of the most important centres of the Arabian peninsula in Late Antiquity, at the junction of the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Levant and the Mediterranean. The city was the capital of Himyar (3-6th c.), a powerful South Arabian empire which exerted its influence all the way to Mecca. Building on the extraordinary archeological discoveries of the Heidelberg-Yemeni project, this workshop explores the history and material culture of Zafār and aims to cast new light on the interconnected world that would soon see the emergence of Islam.

Christian Robin, CNRS Paris

Paul Yule, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Robert Hoyland, ISAW NYU

Daniel Mahoney, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Glen Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Nadia Ali, Silsila

Silsila: Center for Material Histories is an NYU center dedicated to material histories of the Islamicate world. Each semester we hold a thematic series of lectures and workshops, which are open to the public. Details of the Center can be found at:
http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/silsila.html

Date: Friday, December 7th
Time: 9:30-6:00pm
Location: 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/CAoRds3F9GrAgjkE2

Lecture: Burri, Caravaggio, and Neorealism between Film and Canvas

Wednesday, December 5, 6:30 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street

With Emily Braun, Art History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and Grey Art Gallery. RSVP to:https://tinyurl.com/BraunLec. 

Free of charge, capacity limited, and subject to change. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buildings.

Offered in conjunction with NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960, on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC, September 6–December 8, 2018. The exhibition continues at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, 24 West 12th Street.

For information on the exhibition, please visit greyartgallery.nyu.edu

PASSAGES TAKEHISA KOSUGI (1938–2018) November 21, 2018 • Julia E. Robinson

https://www.artforum.com/passages/takehisa-kosugi-1938-8211-2018-77672

Takehisa Kosugi performing in “Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 12-13, 2015. Photo: Taketo Shimada

Takehisa Kosugi, Mano Dharma concert, 1974. Photo: ANZAI.

Album cover for Catch-Wave, 1975, CBS/Sony.

Workshop by Department of Art History alumna Dr. Anne Feng (Art History ’10) this Friday, November 30th, 6:30 PM at the Institute of Fine Arts

IFA CHINA PROJECT WORKSHOP

Anne Feng

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Harvard University

Water, Ice, Lapis Lazuli: 

Metamorphosis of the Pure Land Tableau in the Tang Dynasty

The discussion will be moderated by Wen-shing Chou, Hunter College

 

Friday, November 30th at 6:30 pm

Seminar Room, Institute of Fine Arts

1 East 78th street, NYC

Reception to follow

RSVP: chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com

Institute of Fine Arts

The James B. Duke House

1 E 78th Street,

New York, NY 10075

Phone: (212)-992-5800

Fax: (212)-992-5807

Attachments area

Society of Architectural Historians Lecture

The Cow (Gav)

The Cow (Gav)

Wednesday, November 28, 6:30 pm
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
Screening Room (LL2)
255 Sullivan Street

Dariush Mehrjui’s groundbreaking 1969 film The Cow, adapted from a short story by leftist writer Gholam-Hossein Saedi, paved the way not only for an Iranian New Wave cinema during the Pahlavi era but also for the post-revolutionary cinema of the Islamic Republic. The film depicts a poor villager, Mash Hassan, who owns his village’s only cow—his sole source of joy and livelihood. Influenced by Italian neorealism, Mehrjui portrays ordinary peoples’ lives and their relationship with nature—which he treats with empathy and respect during a time when the Pahlavi regime was promoting a modern, Westernized image of Iran. 79 min. In Persian with English subtitles. Introduced by Mehdi Faraji, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and Grey Art Gallery.

Free of charge, no reservations, capacity limited, and subject to change. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buildings.

Offered in conjunction with NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960, on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC, September 6–December 8, 2018. The exhibition continues at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, 24 West 12th Street.

For information on the exhibition, please visit greyartgallery.nyu.edu

Celebrating the Life of Bobst Fine Arts Librarian and DAH Alumnus Tom McNulty, Wednesday 12/12, 4:00-6:00 PM.

Please join us in 

Celebrating the Life of Tom McNulty

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

4:00-6:00 PM

•••

NYU Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall

31 Washington Place

Reflections and remembrance from colleagues, friends, and students

Reception to follow

 

RSVP

Please RSVP by Wednesday, December 5th

Tom McNulty, photo by Ilona Tuominen

Silsila fall 2018 Lecture Series, Matters of Mediation/Bodies of Devotion “SIAH ARMAJANI: EVERYDAY MAGIC IN IRANIAN MODERN ART” Clare Davies, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fairytale, 1957
ink, sealing wax, collaged elements on paper
281/2 ×169/16 in.(72.4×42.1cm) 
Courtesy of the artist and
Rossi & Rossi

“On the way to south Tehran you passed by the main post office. Two or three ‘scribes’ would be seen sitting on the steps where people could hire them to write a personal letter to family, break a spell or write a special prayer for curing sickness. The scribes would also write letters of protection from Satan for travelers.”–Siah Armajani, 2011

Siah Armajani’s earliest works are collages of fabric and paper made while the artist was still a university student and political activist in 1950s Tehran. Drawing on the material culture of southern Tehran’s historical bazaar, these works incorporated spells, prayers and talismans purchased from the post-office scribe alongside lines of poetry, political protest, and folk songs snatched from the radio, figures copied from the pages of Persian miniatures, information transcribed from family birth certificates and the wax seals of personal signet rings. This paper considers the relationship of religious and magical practices in Armajani’s work to the broader political and social context of southern Tehran, as well as their enduring significance for Iranian artists in the 1960s and 70s.

Clare Davies is the Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Middle East, North Africa and Turkey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She completed a doctoral dissertation on modern art in Egypt in 2014 at the Institute of Fine Arts and received the inaugural Irmgard Coninx Prize for postdoctoral research at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. Ongoing curatorial projects includes an exploration of an aesthetic of exile in the context of the first U.S. retrospective of Iranian-American artist Siah Armajani (b. 1939); a two-room intervention in the galleries of the Met’s Ancient Near East Department by Rayyane Tabet (b. 1983); and assisting in planning the rehang of the Modern and Contemporary permanent collection at the Met.

Silsila: Center for Material Histories is an NYU center dedicated to material histories of the Islamicate world. Each semester we hold a thematic series of lectures and workshops, which are open to the public. Details of the Center can be found at:
http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/silsila.html

Date: Wednesday, November 28th
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/ptkek23zicHT8DfU2

*Since space is limited, it is essential to RSVP. If for any reason you have rsvp’d and cannot attend, please use the RSVP form to let us know.

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Professor Miriam Basilio in San Juan, November 20

Event to be held in San Juan Nov. 20 at the Beta-Local art space in Old San Juan, where Professor Miriam Basilio will be talking about her curatorial and research projects, focusing on archival research related to controversial political periods, the recuperation of histories of women, and the representation of Latin American art at MoMA. http://betalocal.org/reporte-de-actividades-miriam-basilio/

Rediscover the Gilded Age’s Most Famous Architects, including an interview with Professor Mosette Broderick

https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/11/gilded-age-architects-mckim-mead-white-beaux-arts/575650/