Global Impact of Contemporary Iranian Art, A talk By Talinn Grigor

3:00PM
A talk on Contemporary Art of Iran: from the Street to the Studio by Dr. Talin Grigor, Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Grigor will address the development of contemporary Iranian art, its production and its institution. The talk will be follow by a reception.

7:00PM
A Medieval Picture Book and Its Judeo-Persian Lives: The "Shah Abbas Bible' in 17th-Century Safavid Iran, a talk by Dr. Sussan Babaie, Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, recounts the story of this "Shah Abbas Bible," a unique document of cross-cultural and interfaith exchanges in the Middle Ages.

Time: April 19, 2016 from 3pm to 8pm
Location: The Getty Center
Street: 1200 Getty Center Drive
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA 90049
Website or Map: http://www.getty.edu/museum/p…
Phone: 310-666-1546
Event Type: talk, series
Organized By: The Getty Center & Farhang Foundation

Event Details

Event Starts 04/19/2016 – 3:00 pm
Event Ends 04/19/2016 – 8:00 pm
Individual Price Talk Series is free and open to the public! Reservations recommended.
Location The Getty Center