Gallery Tour—Eating with the Sultan: The Wonderful Artwork of Feasting
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Tue, 03/19/2024 – 16:11
Be a part of a LACMA docent for a tour of Eating with the Sultan: The Wonderful Artwork of Feasting
The act of coming collectively to partake of a meal is a observe shared by all cultures. Meals defines us—we’re what we eat. Eating with the Sultan is the primary exhibition to current Islamic artwork within the context of its related culinary traditions. It is going to embody some 250 works of artwork associated to the sourcing, preparation, serving, and consumption of meals, from 30 private and non-private collections within the U.S., Europe, and the Center East—objects of undisputed high quality and enchantment, considered by way of the common lens of positive eating. The exhibition will stimulate not solely the eyes but in addition the urge for food, reminding guests of the communal pleasure of meals—each its style and its presentation. It is going to present much-needed data on the big class of luxurious objects that could be broadly outlined as tableware and reveal how gustatory discernment was a basic exercise on the nice Islamic courts.
-Sat, 05/18/2024 – 15:00
Manuscript, Niʻmatnāmah-i Nāṣirshāhī (Ebook of Delights), India, late fifteenth century, The Oriental and India Workplace Collections of the British Library, London, IO Islamic 149 OR BL. Persian 149, fol.115 b, fol. 40 b, fol. 25 b, fol. 79 b, photograph © British Library Photos
Free with museum admission
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