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

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 event will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants. Please join us as Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Co-curator of ISAW’s Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq exhibition, hosts a conversation with artists Adel Abidin, Nadine Hattom, Hanaa Malallah, Mahmoud Obaidi, and Walid Siti as they discuss the genesis of this project. The artists will address the themes of the exhibition, discuss their works in relation to Latif Al Ani's pictures and Nineteenth century excavation practices, and evaluate the role of art in the depiction and understanding of ancient Iraq.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2023-2024

This lecture will take place online; a Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants. Registration is required; click through for the registration link.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: exhibition-event Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2022-2023

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