{"id":611,"date":"2016-11-26T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=611"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:03:00","slug":"dr-marilyn-jenkins-madina-donates-collection-to-the-aga-khan-documentation-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2016\/11\/26\/dr-marilyn-jenkins-madina-donates-collection-to-the-aga-khan-documentation-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina donates collection to the Aga Khan Documentation Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image of inscription at Jami\u2019 Bu Fatata, Sousse, Tunisia.
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Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Ph.D.<\/a>, Curator Emerita, Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, has donated her research collection to AKDC@MIT<\/a>.\u00a0 Her gift includes ca. 4,250 35mm slides, along with some born digital images, from important sites and collections throughout the Middle East and North Africa including, but not limited to: Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, and Iran.\u00a0 Many of the sites she documented have now been lost to time, natural disaster, or war and can only be studied through scholars’ collections such as this.<\/p>\n

Jenkins-Madina began her long curatorial career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, New York in 1964.\u00a0 Having received her B.A. from Brown University in 1962, she continued to pursue her education while working at The Metropolitan Museum, earning both her M.A. and Ph.D. during this time.\u00a0 From her initial appointment as Curatorial Assistant, she rose through the ranks during her forty-year tenure as curator in the Department of Islamic Art and was named Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2004.<\/p>\n

Marilyn Jenkins-Madina\u2019s work includes the critical revision and expansion of those sections dealing with the decorative arts and the arts of the book in the second edition, published in 2001, of the preeminent text, Islamic Art and Architecture:\u00a0 650-1250.\u00a0 <\/em>These sections in the first edition, published in 1987, had initially been written by her mentor and long-term colleague, Prof. Richard Ettinghausen. <\/a> In 2006, she published Raqqa Revisited:\u00a0 Ceramics of Ayyubid Syri<\/em><\/a>a, an important study using art-historical detective work, archival documents, and scientific data to place these objects in a secure historical context for the first time.<\/p>\n

In addition to the permanent and temporary exhibitions Jenkins-Madina helped to mount and publish at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she was also very actively engaged throughout her long career in helping various countries in the Near and Middle East to present their own material from the Islamic world.\u00a0 The largest such undertaking was serving as the Project Director for the creation and installation of Dar al- Athar al-Islamiyya in Kuwait which opened to great acclaim in 1983.\u00a0 She remains an active participant in her field.<\/p>\n

Portions of her collection will be digitized and openly available via AKDC’s dissemination resource, Archnet<\/a>.\u00a0 Students, scholars, and researchers may view Marilyn Jenkins-Madina’s collection in the Center during normal business hours.<\/p>\n

Included with her generous gift, Jenkins-Madina donated a smaller collection of papers, business records, and images given to her by her friend, Adrienne Minassian.\u00a0 Ms. Minassian\u00a0(1913-1994) worked with her father, Kirkor Minassian (1874-1944), as art dealers specializing in Islamic and Near-East art in New York and Paris. Although the family gallery in New York closed in 1923, Mr. Minassian, and his daughter Adrienne after him, continued as dealers as well as personal art collectors.\u00a0 This collection will not be available on Archnet; however the finding aid will be on our lib guide and researchers are welcome in the Center to examine the materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Ph.D., Curator Emerita, Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has donated her research collection to AKDC@MIT.\u00a0 Her gift includes ca. 4,250 35mm slides, along with some born digital images, from important sites and collections throughout the Middle East and North Africa including, but not limited to: Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, and Iran.\u00a0 Many of the sites she documented have now been lost to time, natural disaster, or war and can only be studied through scholars’ collections such as this. Jenkins-Madina began her long curatorial career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-akdc-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}