Please join us on Thursday, November 5 at 7PM ET for a Virtual Salon on Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy, an exhibition on view at The Met through February 2027. The event will feature the three curators of the show, which is the first at The Met dedicated to Orientalism and the first major collaboration between the Departments of European Paintings and Islamic Art.
Participants:
Maryam Ekhtiar, Patti Cadby Birch Curator, Department of Islamic Art
Asher Miller, Eugene V. Thaw Curator, Department of European Paintings
Deniz Beyazit, Curator, Department of Islamic Art
This online event is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/MetOrient