Habib Yazdi, Sara Aghajanian, and Abbas Rattani have a shared passion for their cultures and heritages. The three friends, all the children of immigrants, also share a love of storytelling. “When we all ended up in New York City at the same time, it only seemed natural that we would collaborate,” Aghajanian says.
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Sep 18, 2018
The Teen Advisory Board wrote and produced a podcast called Beyond the Paint, the first season of which focuses on the exhibition Contemporary Muslims Fashions at the de Young.
Sep 3, 2018
In the eighteenth century, women in European society used fans as dynamic objects to convey emotions, flick away suitors, and keep themselves cool. As such, fans were repeatedly folded and unfolded, causing their materials to tear and break.
Aug 31, 2018
The shimmer of gold and the brightly colored pages of medieval handmade books inspired some of the most creative artists in Britain in the late nineteenth century. Six illuminated manuscripts (so called because they were often embellished with gold or silver leaf), on loan from the renowned J.
Aug 31, 2018
Contemporary Muslim Fashions is the first major museum exhibition to explore the complex, diverse nature of Muslim dress codes worldwide, spotlighting places, garments, and styles to consider how Muslims define themselves—and are defined—by their dress.
Aug 24, 2018
At approximately 10 by 6 feet, Vertumnus and Pomona (1757), by François Boucher and his studio, is one of the largest paintings in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s European collection. Vertumnus, the Roman god of seasons and fertility, transformed himself into an old woman in order to seduce Pomona, the goddess of fruit and gardens.
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