Writer and historian William Dalrymple discusses masterpieces of Company School painting in India that showcase the monuments, ruins, and inhabitants of Delhi.
Ken Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments, discusses the new exhibition The Sacred Lute: The Art of Ostad Elahi.
The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 54 include conservators’ discoveries of Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia’s workshop techniques; a new reading of lavishly dressed women on tile panels from 17th-century Iran; and John Singer Sargent’s decisive role in choosing his socialite sitters’ fashionable attire.
Associate for Administration Julia Rooney looks at highlights from the past three years of programming in the Moroccan Court Music Series ahead of the final concert on July 22, 2016.
Ostad Elahi was a renowned Persian musician, thinker, and jurist whose transformative work in the art of tanbūr—an ancient, long-necked lute—paralleled his innovative approach to the quest for truth and self-knowledge. This exhibition documents the interdependent, mutually transformative relationship between player and instrument through a presentation of nearly forty rare instruments and works of art.
