Special Exhibitions
Jeweled Arts of India
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Jeweled Arts of India |
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Free Lecture Series, Family Festival, Other Related Events Free Lecture SeriesSix leaders in the field of Mughal art from around the world will be brought to CMA for a free lecture series on Sundays at 2 pm Sunday, February 24, 2pm -- Splendid Culmination: The Classic Phase of Jeweled Arts of the Mughal Period, by al-Sabah Collection Curator, Manuel Keene Sunday, March 3, 2 pm -- Jeweled Thrones, by Susan Stronge, assistant curator, Indian and Southeast Asian department, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Sunday, March 10, 2 pm -- Miniature Paintings as Documents of the Jeweled Art by Joseph M. Dye III, E. Rhodes and Leonna B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Sunday, April 7, 2 pm -- Luxury Crafts at the Court of the Great Mughal, Robert Skelton, Esq., Keeper Emeritus, Indian Section, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Sunday, April 14, 2 pm -- Paradise in Mughal Gardens by independent architectural historian Elizabeth Moynihan Sunday, April 21, 2 pm -- Visions of Marble, Visions of Paradise: The Tradition of the Taj Mahal, by Catherine B. Asher, professor, department of art history, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Free Lectures and Workshop on Shawls On Sunday, May 5, at 1-4:30 pm, the Textile Art Alliance, an affiliate group of the museum, will co-sponsor a free workshop on paisley and Kashmiri shawls, including an identification "clinic" for examples brought by visitors and a pair of lectures by two independent scholars: Jenny Housego, based in Delhi and Paris; and Arlene Cooper, based in New York. Free Family Festival Sunday, March 17 Drop-in workshops for all ages, music, dance, and other activities will make up the free Family Festival on Sunday, Mar. 17, at 1-4:30 pm Three Concerts Highlight Indian Classical Dance, Jewish and Arabic Music Three spring concerts, all part of the Cleveland Museum of Art's (CMA) VIVA! Festival of Performing Arts, will highlight the rich performing arts traditions of India and the Middle East. They will take place in Gartner Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to each concert are $27 and $23 and may be purchased by calling 1-888-CMA-0033 or online at www.clevelandart.org. The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India, played to a sold-out house as part of CMA's premier VIVA! season in 1999. On Friday, Mar. 8, Nrityagram will return to the museum with the Cleveland debut of Savitri ("daughter of the sun"). The dance is a spiritual drama filled with sensuality and is based on a 2000-year-old text. The ten dancers and musicians who make up the company have introduced international audiences to the power and magic of Odissi classical dance. Lebanese musician and composer Marcel Khalife, joined by his five-member ensemble, will perform Friday, Apr. 19. Khalife, who plays the oud (or Arabic lute), is one of the world's leading Arabic musicians and has reshaped traditional Arabic music into an alluring, universally communicative form of expression. Jewish music of Morocco will be performed by countertenor Emil Zrihan and his six-member ensemble Sunday, Apr. 21. Zrihan is the head cantor of the synagogue in Ashkeloh, Israel, and is considered one of the finest countertenors in the world. The power and range of his voice expresses the emotional intensity of Jewish liturgical music, Spanish flamenco, and Sephardic songs (Judeo-Spanish), as well as the vivacity of Andalusian mawal, an Arabic improvisational form. Page 4 of 7 | On the next page: Sponsors |
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