Next Friday I will be giving a talk at the Met Fellows Spring Colloquium session Bridging Eurasia. The talk is entitled “The Stepchild’s Stepchild: Displaying Ancient Iran in the Modern Museum,” and it reflects some of the challenges of presenting ancient Iranian art in museums. Admittedly it will be a rough, preliminary look at the topic, based on my own impressions and experiences rather than on a rigorous study of the subject.
The session takes place in the Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall in the Uris Center for Education on the ground floor of the Met. The colloquium begins at 10:00, and my panel starts at 11:45.