{"id":11473,"date":"2020-03-06T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=11473"},"modified":"2020-03-06T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:30:00","slug":"exhibit-dis-assemble-making-meaning-from-the-minassian-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-dis-assemble-making-meaning-from-the-minassian-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | Dis\/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/DisA1-605x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11478\" width=\"303\" height=\"512\" \/><figcaption>Leaf, Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dis\/Assemble<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dis\/Assemble<\/em> is a collaborative effort by graduate students from across ten different humanities disciplines to construct narratives around a continuously moving archive: the Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Paintings and Calligraphies at Brown University. This collection evokes questions of assemblage and disassemblage, from sifting the extraordinary from the ordinary to practices of collecting and taxonomizing. Visitors are invited to participate in the creative act of engaging with fragments and fragmentation as they behold, imagine, and truly see the objects on view.<\/p>\n\n\n<h1>Opening Reception &amp; Curator&#8217;s Introduction<\/h1>\n<p>Monday, March 9, 2020<br \/>4:30 p.m.<br \/>John Hay Library<\/p>\n<h1>Discussion<\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection&#8221;<br \/>Monday, March 9, 2020<br \/>5:30 p.m.<br \/>Lownes Room, John Hay Library<\/p>\n<h1>Guests<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Navina Haidar, Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Maryam Ekhtiar, Associate Curator of the Department of Islamic Art\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><strong>Dates<\/strong>: March 9, 2019 \u2013 May 25, 2020 <strong>&amp; September 1 &#8211; December 15, 2021<\/strong><br><strong>Time<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/index.php\">John Hay Library Hours<br><\/a><strong>Location<\/strong>: Exhibition Gallery, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dis\/Assemble Dis\/Assemble is a collaborative effort by graduate students from across ten different humanities disciplines to construct narratives around a continuously moving archive: the Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Paintings and Calligraphies at Brown University. 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