Tuesday, May 6
6:30-8 PM
This illustrated lecture gives an overview of khita’i—an apparently Chinese or far eastern-inspired aesthetic revealed in the form of motifs such as lotuses, peonies, scrolling cloud bands, fantastical creatures like dragons and simurghs, as an artistic phenomenon generated by the Mongol connections between China and Greater Iran and its development in the Iranian world.
Ladan Akbarnia is Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
$10 member and Brooklyn Museum member
$15 non-member