Distinguished scholar Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Director of MoMA, Glenn D. Lowry explore the role of calligraphy as the preeminent visual art form in historical and contemporary Islamic societies. Discussion moderated by Melissa Chiu, Director of Asia Society Museum.
$10 members/students/seniors; $15 nonmembers
These programs are part of Creative Voices of Islam in Asia, and are made possible, in part, by generous funding from the Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Arts and Lisina Hoch.
Programs are in conjunctions with the exhibitions on view at Asia Society:
Traces of the Calligrapher:
Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, ca. 1600-1900 and
Writing the World of God: Calligraphy and the Qu’ran
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