Poetic License

Martina Rugiadi

December 4, 2013

2 min. watch

This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

“It’s actually a celebration of the exalted status of being drunk.”

Curator Martina Rugiadi on a cup with a poem by Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi on wine from the second half of the tenth or eleventh century.

Contributors

Martina Rugiadi
Curator

Photography by Anna-Marie Kellen
Poem recited by Abdullah Gouchani

Art Mentioned

Cup with a Poem on Wine, Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi, Silver; fire-gilded, hammered, chased — Cup with a Poem on Wine
Poet Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi
second half 10th–11th century

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