Roundtable on Islamic Art

Panelists will engage questions that relate the use of the phrase Islamic Art to artistic practice on a worldwide scale. Moving beyond any kind of sterile concern with definitions, we will explore how producers, evaluators, buyers, and viewers of art today are likely to interpret the term Islamic art, and illustrate a diverse set of perspectives that, in turn, will reflect on aesthetics, the relationship between the present and the past, and personal and collective identities in the world today.