"We live in a world of half-completed things or damaged objects, but I had never articulated to myself that in fact there were times quite often that I preferred the objects that way."
Islamic art curator Navina Haidar extols the implications and aesthetics of the broken or incomplete.
Connections: Better Broken
Islamic art curator Navina Haidar extols the implications and aesthetics of the broken or incomplete.
Navina Najat Haidar
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Navina Najat Haidar
Curator, Department of Islamic Art
Curator, Department of Islamic Art
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Sahib Ram
ca. 1800
Sahri-Bahlol Workshop
ca. 5th century
Greek
2nd or 1st century BCE
Roman
161–169 CE
Painter of Vatican 365
ca. 540–530 BCE
Roman
mid-2nd century CE
Roman
ca. 31 BCE–14 CE
Greek
5th century BCE or later
Anthony van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck
ca. 1640
late 9th–early 10th century
ca. 1545–55
ca. 1605
ca. 1750–75
Hashim
ca. 1640
525–404 B.C.
ca. 1390–1336 B.C.
4th century B.C.