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Understanding Indian Culture through the Arts
Literary Affairs invites you to join us for Understanding the Indian Culture through the Arts.
We will tour the East Indian galleries at LACMA with Art Muse LA specialist Betty Seid. We will then reconvene at Surfas and cook an Indian Lunch with Maite Gomez-Rejon of ArtBites.
LACMA and Surfas
Tuesday, May 3
11AM-2:30PM
Tickets: $185
Space is Limited
NO REFUNDS
For many years, Literary Affairs Book Clubs have been reading Indian writers like; Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Rohinton Mistry to name just a few. We have talked about how the language is often lyrical and mystical carrying great emotional weight. We have also realized that it is often restrained and subtler than western literature requiring us to intuit meaning by engaging deeper with the text.
According to Senior Research Curator Stephen Markel at LACMA, "Beyond basic intelligibility many Indian works feature complex subject matter, symbolic nuances, and/or compositional substructures that require an in-depth explanation to understand their layers of meaning and raison dêtre. Together, these pictorial intricacies form a corpus of sub-textual approaches by artists intended to convey deeper levels of interpretation than are apparent at a superficial glance."
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LocationLACMA / Surfas (View)
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States
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