Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Please Note: This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Part of our Free Friday Evening Exhibition tour series. Join us in the galleries for an in-depth discussion of the exhibition A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate. In this tour, participants will engage in a guided conversation exploring the specific history, iconography, and transformative power of ancient Near Eastern craftsmanship as it relates to the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate and Processional Way.

Published 11/27/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

Please Note: This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Part of our Free Friday Evening Exhibition tour series. Join us in the galleries for an in-depth discussion of the exhibition A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate. In this tour, participants will engage in a guided conversation exploring the specific history, iconography, and transformative power of ancient Near Eastern craftsmanship as it relates to the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate and Processional Way.

Published 11/27/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

Please Note: This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Part of our Free Friday Evening Exhibition tour series. Join us in the galleries for an in-depth discussion of the exhibition A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate. In this tour, participants will engage in a guided conversation exploring the specific history, iconography, and transformative power of ancient Near Eastern craftsmanship as it relates to the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate and Processional Way.

Published 11/27/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

Please Note: This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Part of our Free Friday Evening Exhibition tour series. Join us in the galleries for an in-depth discussion of the exhibition A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate. In this tour, participants will engage in a guided conversation exploring the specific history, iconography, and transformative power of ancient Near Eastern craftsmanship as it relates to the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate and Processional Way.

Published 11/27/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

This lecture takes the form of a conversation between a conservator and curator on the technical aspects of making bricks in the form of animals for the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way. We will reconstruct the process of how the bricks were made and assembled. Close observation of the composition of the animals reveals that the craftspeople made deliberate choices about how to lay out these images across a grid of bricks. These choices were not based in a desire to streamline the working process or economize on labor and materials, but rather were motivated by a preference for symmetry and for minimizing the visual interference of the brick grid on the pictorial elements of the composition. We will end with a look at the monumental task of reconstructing the panels after the fragments arrived in Berlin.

Published 12/20/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

*Registration for this event will open on January 6th, one month before the event

Published 12/20/2019 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

Please Note: This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please join archaeological illustrator and artist Tracy Molis in a gallery conversation about the conceptual and practical role of illustration in archaeology today, and how early 20th century approaches compare with present-day practices.

Published 02/12/2020 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

Please Note: This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. The Ishtar Gate and Processional Way are not just highly-decorated forms of functional control, limiting the movement of people, animals, and goods into- and out of- Babylon. Rather, they are narratives that tell a story through their construction and imagery; that story is one of control.

Published 02/26/2020 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

On May 6th, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator, Clare Fitzgerald, gave a Virtual Tour of our current exhibition, A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate. This online presentation was given in collaboration with NYU's Alumni office, and we are pleased to be able to provide our community with the full recording.

Published 06/10/2020 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Please join illustrator and teaching artist Joan Chiverton for an afternoon of sketching in the galleries in conjunction with the exhibition Rethinking Etruria. Develop your drawing skills and discover a new way of seeing the exhibit, as you sketch masterpieces and other objects. Following a brief introduction and tutorial, Ms. Chiverton will circulate the galleries and provide individual coaching, if desired. All skill levels are welcome, from beginner to advanced. Participants should bring their own drawing pad or paper with a board, but we will have paper on hand if necessary. Gallery specific pencils will be provided by ISAW. For conservation reasons pens, pastels, charcoal and paints need to be kept at home.

Published 05/29/2025 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events

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