{"id":2607,"date":"2026-10-15T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:30:08","slug":"lecture-cities-of-islamic-art-by-artist-laurelie-rae-on-october-26-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2026\/10\/15\/lecture-cities-of-islamic-art-by-artist-laurelie-rae-on-october-26-at-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Cities of Islamic Art by artist Laurelie Rae on October 26 at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.mit.edu\/event\/cities-of-islamic-art\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2608 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-233x300.png\" alt=\"Poster with event information\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-796x1024.png 796w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-768x987.png 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-1195x1536.png 1195w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-1593x2048.png 1593w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-624x802.png 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/10\/Cities-of-Islamic-Art_Poster-scaled.png 1991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries is proud to present &#8220;Cities of Islamic Art: From Historical Visual Systems to the Formation of Contemporary Islamic Art in North America&#8221; a public lecture by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/12043\">Laurelie Rae<\/a>, an artist, author, and educator based in Istanbul, to be held Monday, October 26, 2026 6:00 pm in <a href=\"https:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/?go=3\">Building 3, room 3-133<\/a> on the MIT Campus.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/collections\/3024\"><i>Cities of Islamic Art, Vol. 2<\/i><\/a> as both an object and a methodology to examine Islamic art as a mobile system of visual knowledge rather than a fixed historical style. Beginning with historical surfaces from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/3709\">Isfahan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/3711\">Istanbul<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/3603\">Damascus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/5328\">Cairo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/sites\/10125\">Granada<\/a>, the talk traces how motifs migrate across ceramics, tiles, manuscripts, and architecture to form the fabric of visual culture and heritage known as \u201cIslamic Art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lecture then shifts to the speaker\u2019s doctoral research, examining how these visual systems are reframed and redefined by visual and sonic artists within the North American diaspora context. The artist\u2019s book functions here as a curatorial and analytical device\u2014a way of reorganizing visual knowledge outside conventional art historical and museological categories.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries is proud to present &#8220;Cities of Islamic Art: From Historical Visual Systems to the Formation of Contemporary Islamic Art in North America&#8221; a public lecture by Laurelie Rae, an artist, author, and educator based in Istanbul, to be held Monday, October 26, 2026 6:00 pm in Building 3, room 3-133 on the MIT Campus. This lecture uses Cities of Islamic Art, Vol. 2 as both an object and a methodology to examine Islamic art as a mobile system of visual knowledge rather than a fixed historical style. Beginning with historical surfaces from Isfahan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":true,"event_date":"October 26, 2026","event_start_time":"6pm","event_end_time":""},"categories":[268,562,273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-collections","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}