What We've Been Up To On Tuesday, April 6, QAIC hosted the inaugural virtual panel of the 2021 Museum Series. This event featured a panel of curators that manage the Islamic art collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. The discussion was moderated by the Chair of QAIC’s Board of Directors, Peggy Loar.
The panel explored the evolution of Islamic art curation in museums today as experts from both the US and Qatar shared their own curatorial processes and approaches towards exhibiting their institutions' Islamic art collections. On Tuesday, May 25, we hosted the second edition of the 2021 Museum Series. This event featured a panel of curators that manage indigenous and Bedouin collections at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, Qatar, the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Islamic Art Collection, LACMA. QAIC Muesem Series.
The discussion was moderated by QAIC’s Executive Director, Fatima Al-Dosari. The panel explored the modes of curation and display of native art as experts from both the US and Qatar shared their own curatorial processes and approaches towards exhibiting theirinstitution’s various historic and contemporary indigenous and Bedouin collections. Displays from Qatar National Museum. QAIC Musems Series. JUNE 2021
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