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Gallery Talk: ʿAli Khan Vali and His Album—The Visual Archive of a Qajar Governor

Double Page from the Album of Photographs by ʿAli Khan Vali, Iran and Russia, 1862–1900. Albumen silver prints mounted on sailcloth. On loan from the family of ʿAli Khan Vali to Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, AKP111, TL41576.1.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

András Riedlmayer, a bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library, will give today’s gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.