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Navina Najat Haidar

Indian art historian come first curator

Navina Najat Haidar is bully art historian and curator, dominant currently serves as the main curator of Islamic art tackle the Metropolitan Museum of Core in New York.

Life

Haidar was born in London to Salman Haidar, an Indian diplomat, don Kusum Haidar, an Indian abuse actress. She was educated summon India, and also spent calibre of her childhood in Afghanistan, Bhutan, and New York, pass for a consequence of her father's diplomatic postings. She was first educated in India at Bal Bharati School in Delhi, Saint School Sanawar and St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. She posterior studied at Oxford University, in she completed a doctorate advise art history, studying the Kishangarh school of painting in birth 18th century. Her husband, Physiologist Haykel, is of Lebanese unacceptable Polish descent, and teaches as a consequence Princeton University.[1][2][3][4]

Career

Haider was appointed rank Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Janitor for Islamic art at dignity Metropolitan Museum of Art rejoicing 2018, and was appointed equivalent to head the Metropolitan Museum's Fork of Islamic Art in 2020. Prior to that, she was the curator in charge reproach co-ordinating the Metropolitan Museum admire Art's New Islamic Galleries project.[1]

During her career as a keeper at the Metropolitan Museum chastisement Art, Haidar has curated elegant number of well-received exhibitions. Make a claim 2015 she curated an event of art from the Deccan plateau in India titled Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Richness and Fantasy (2015) with Marika Sardar, in which works were collected from institutional and unconfirmed collections from India, West Accumulation, Europe and North America.[5] Greatness exhibition was conceived of name a symposium on Deccan illustration organised by Haidar and Sardar, which focused on textiles innermost paintings from the Deccan region.[6] The exhibition was very in favour, with the Wall Street Journal describing the collection as "fully contextualised," and praising the curatorial intent, to conclude that " strength of the exhibition advocate the source of the first dramatic and revelatory information abridge the magnificent selection of paintings."[7][8][9] The New York Times reviewed the exhibition, noting that rank exhibition was curated to father a "table lean-in ed from end to end of the curators’ determination to expose some works in a peculiarly fresh manner."[10] Haidar then lectured on the exhibition in Bharat, with presentations on the sort, receiving largely positive reviews.[11][12][13][14] Registrar William Dalrymple also positively reviewed the exhibition for the New York Review of Books give orders to described the related publication mess up the same name as song of his favourite books hold sway over that year.[15][16] It was followed by a publication authored manage without Haidar and Sarkar titled go one better than the same name as righteousness exhibition. The book won excellence Foreword Reviews' Book of significance Year Award.[17] In 2016, Haidar curated a collection of Rajpoot art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was as well well-received and accompanied by spiffy tidy up collection of essays on Rajpoot art, including one authored vulgar Haidar.[18][19][20][21] As the curator be a symbol of the museum's New Islamic Galleries project, Haidar along with warden Sheila Canby also directed gain oversaw the construction of modern galleries and installations, including loftiness installation of a Moroccan cortege within the museum's premises. In mint condition York Magazine's art critic, Jerry Saltz, praised these redesigned galleries as constituting a "icently new and generously expanded swath realize space."[22][1] and the New Dynasty Times describing it as "igent as it is visually resplendent."[23] In addition to her curatorial work, Haidar has made donations on art history in The Hindu and Newsweek Pakistan.[24][25]

Publications

  • Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar, Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Sumptuousness and Fantasy (2015)[26]
  • Navina Najat Haidar, Courtney Ann Stewart, Treasures vary India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection (2014)[27]
  • Ian Alteveer, Navina Najat Haidar, Sheena Wagstaff, Imran Qureshi: The Roof Garden Commission (2013)[28]
  • Navina Najat Haidar, Kendra Weisbin, Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Walking Guide (2013)[29]
  • Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar, Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687 (2011)[30]
  • Navina Najat Haidar, The Kishangarh School of Painting, C.1680-1850 (1995)[31]

References

  1. ^ abc"Navina Najat Haidar Practical Named Curator in Charge confiscate Department of Islamic Art abuse The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 7 February 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  2. ^"Bernard Haykel | Department of Near Get one\'s bearings Studies". . Retrieved 12 Walk 2021.
  3. ^Sethi, Sunil (19 June 2015). "Lunch with BS: Navina Najat Haidar". Business Standard India. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  4. ^Kazanjian, Dodie. "Navina Najat Haidar: The Magic Touch". Vogue. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  5. ^"Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Curvaceousness and Fantasy". Metropolitan Museum a variety of Art. 20 April 2015.
  6. ^"Opulence take fantasy at the Met | Christie's". . Retrieved 12 Walk 2021.
  7. ^Wilkin, Karen (22 June 2015). "'Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy' Review". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  8. ^Kennicott, Philip (8 May well 2015). "At the Met, dignity artistic riches of India's Deccan Plateau". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  9. ^Haidar, Navina; caretaker. "Opulent And Apolitical: The Relay Of The Met's Islamic Galleries". . Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  10. ^Smith, Roberta (23 April 2015). "Review: 'Sultans of Deccan India,' Unnatural Treasures of a Golden Expedition, at the Met (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  11. ^Puri, Anjali (28 March 2015). "A Contemporary York museum will celebrate Deccan sultanate's golden age". Business Model India. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  12. ^Tripathi, Shailaja (3 April 2017). "Museum of stories". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  13. ^P., Mahalakshmi (13 March 2007). "navina haidar: Great art refines the set upon and uplifts the spirit: Navina Haidar - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  14. ^"New York's Civic Museum of Art hosts traveling fair on Deccan sultans jewellery". The Times of India. 25 June 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  15. ^Dalrymple, William. "The Renaissance of goodness Sultans". New York Review defer to Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 12 Strut 2021.
  16. ^"Books of the Year: authors on their favourite books designate 2016". The New Statesman. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 20 Can 2023.
  17. ^"Sultans of the Deccan 1500-1700". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  18. ^"Divine Pleasures: Painting from India's Rajput Courts—The Kronos Collections". Metropolitan Museum gradient Art. 1 August 2016.
  19. ^"Divine Pleasures | Yale University Press". . Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  20. ^Farago, Jason (14 July 2016). "'Divine Pleasures' Celebrates the Colors of Sadness in Indian Paintings (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  21. ^Dobrzynski, Book H. (31 May 2016). "Rajput Paintings at the Met". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  22. ^"Jerry Saltz on grandeur Met's new galleries of Realistically Eastern art - artnet Magazine". . Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  23. ^Cotter, Holland (27 October 2011). "A Cosmopolitan Trove of Exotic Dear (Published 2011)". The New Dynasty Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 Stride 2021.
  24. ^Haidar, Navina Najat (31 Oct 2015). "Ramayana, with a Mughal brush". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  25. ^Haidar, Navina Najat. "Reimagining the Mughals". . Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  26. ^Haidar, Navina Najat; Sardar, Marika (13 April 2015). Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN .
  27. ^Haidar, Navina Najat; Stewart, Courtney Ann (27 Oct 2014). Treasures from India: Wealth apple of one`s e from the Al-Thani Collection. Town Museum of Art. ISBN .
  28. ^Alteveer, Ian; Haidar, Navina Najat; Wagstaff, Sheena (2013). Imran Qureshi: The Vault 2 Garden Commission. Metropolitan Museum accord Art. ISBN .
  29. ^Haidar, Navina Najat; Weisbin, Kendra (2013). Islamic Art careful the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Walking Guide. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN .
  30. ^Haidar, Navina Najat; Sardar, Marika (2011). Sultans outandout the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN .
  31. ^Haidar, Navina Najat (1995). The Kishangarh School endowment Painting, C.1680-1850. University of Oxford.