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In the 17th and 18th centuries, artists produced gloriously illustrated Ramayanas for both Hindu and Muslim rulers. In a lecture titled Beyond Hindu and Muslim: The Courtly Ramayanas of North India, Debra Diamond, curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, compares four illustrated Ramayanas […]
Emory students in the fall semester class "The Art of the Hindu Epic" curated the exhibition "Tell the Whole Storying from Beginning to End:" The Ramayana in Indian Painting. Join them in the gallery for a look at these intricately painted scenes from the great Sanskrit epic — from the banishment of Prince Rama from […]
US Poet Laureate Billy Collins describes Amit Majmudar’s work as “nothing less than a torrent of poetic inventiveness driven by the inexhaustible poetic energy.” In Dothead, nuclear radiologist, novelist, and former poet laureate of Ohio, Amit Majmudar asserts claims of both the self and the other. The title poem shows us the place of an […]
The inexpensive and widely produced lithographic prints of Raja Ravi Varma featured in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine made it possible for many families to have images of the Hindu deities in their homes for the first time. After exploring these images with teaching artist Gauri Misra-Desphande, children will make […]
In a conversation titled “Guising as God,” Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger of Emory’s Department of Religion and Harshita Mruthinti Kamath of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies discuss the practice of vesham, using clothing and ornamentation to guise and disguise, across a range of Indian contexts. Drawing on their individual fieldwork, Drs. Flueckiger […]
In this story from Kerala, India, children will hear about some of the amazing feats of Hanuman, monkey god and a hero of the Indian epic the Ramayana, before exploring the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India and another gallery that may be surprising, then head to the studio to make jewel-encrusted crowns like Hanuman’s! For […]
Enjoy afternoon tea and scones as Curator of African Art Amanda Hellman discusses how Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, traveled to Africa.
Join Curator of Greek and Roman Art Ruth Allen for a gallery talk titled ‘“Not the Classical Ideal‘: Unconventional Bodies and Bad Behaviors in Greek and Roman Art.” This event is free and open to the Emory community and the public, but space is limited and online registration is required.
Heather Hyde Minor, Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame will present a lecture on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Lost Book." Piranesi was an 18th century artist famous for his architectural etchings of Rome. Recommended Parking: Oxford Road Parking Deck Fishburne Parking Deck
Anthony Grafton considers the meaning and relevance of margin notes found in Renaissance texts. In this period, educated readers went through their texts pen in hand. They underlining passages, adding references to names and short summaries in the margins, and interpreting or responding to the text. Most marginalia were verbal. But scholars from Petrarch in […]
In 1967, Anant Pai started a comic book company called Amar Chitra Katha (“immortal picture stories” in Hindi), to retell classical works of Indian literature such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in a contemporary, child-friendly format. Whether you’ve grown up with ACK or are experiencing them for the first time, come pick up a […]
In Palace of Illusions, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni recasts the Mahabharata through the eyes of Panchaali (Draupadi), the fire-born heroine of the great epic. Married to five royal husbands, brothers who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of […]
In 2002, India embarked on a plan to brand itself for investment and tourism with its “Incredible India” campaign, which brought together every government sector to market the nation. The campaign was extremely successful, asserting India’s cultural and economic power in global markets and raising awareness of international brands in domestic ones. This was the […]
Join Curator of Works on Paper Andi McKenzie for a gallery talk on the etchings and drawings by the German surrealist Unica Zürn in the exhibition This Strange Presence. This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited, and online registration is required.
In an immense photograph by Manjari Sharma in the special exhibition Transcendent Deities of India, the goddess Durga rests on her tiger. Children will hear about Durga’s origin and her many feats from Amma, Tell Me About…Durga Puja, written by Bhakti Mathur and illustrated by Maulshree Somani, and then match Durga’s multiple arms with the […]
What is ‘classical art’? Why is it that some ancient Greek and Roman artifacts, but only some Greek and Roman artifacts, got to move across cultures and time, assuming a ‘classical’ status and dictating culture as they go? In this year’s Nix Mann Endowed Lecture titled “The Shifting Shape of Classical Art” Caroline Vout, professor […]
Make yourself a cup of chai using Manjari Sharma’s family recipe and join us for a live Zoom talk by the artist whose large scale photographs of Hindu deities are featured in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine. The multi-year project to re-create a temple-like experience of nine Hindu […]
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University and Associate Vice-Provost and Director Henry Kim cordially invite you to a special exhibition experience for the opening of: You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography Enjoy Latin street food prepared by Calle Latina. Reception and remarks in Ackerman Hall, Level Three. RSVP by August […]
The news is full of images and stories of people having to flee their homes because of war, hunger, or disease. Many of us have normalized the sight to such an extent that we barely notice it anymore. But what does it feel like to actually have to leave your home and everything – also […]
Throughout history, Cyprus has been variously described as ‘the island of love’, ‘the birthplace of Aphrodite’, ‘the blessed isle’, ‘the land of lemon and olive trees’, among many other things. But in the past half century, Cyprus has also been known as a land of pain and sorrow; an island of division and loss. On […]
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