The Silk Road: A Living History
The travel photographer and AKF (UK)'s Head of Communications Christopher Wilton-Steer travelled some 40,000km by car, boat and camel from London to Beijing, along the historic Silk Road.
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You can’t travel, but there’s a new show about 40,000km of the Silk Road
From 8 April to 16 June, in London, the Aga Khan Foundation (UK) will present a free outdoor exhibition about the world’s oldest trade route.
The Silk Road: A living history exhibited at Kings Cross
From 8 April to 16 June, in London’s Kings Cross, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is presenting a free open-air photography exhibition about the world’s oldest trade route. The Silk Road: A Living History, created by travel photographer Christopher Wilton-Steer, is comprised of over 160 photographs that invite the viewer to take a journey from London to Beijing, encountering many of the people, places and cultures along the ancient trade route.
The Silk Road: a living history
A free outdoor exhibition capturing the world’s oldest trade route, with travel photographer Christopher Wilton-Steer will feature at the Aga Khan Centre from 8 April to 16 June.
Here's a glimpse of 'Making Paradise,' a major new exhibition that explores the concept of Eden through Islamic garden design
The Aga Khan Centre in London presents Making Paradise, a major new exhibition that explores the concept of Eden through Islamic garden design.
Exhibition: up close and personal
A show titled Remastered at the Aga Khan Museum (AKM), Toronto, showcases timeless stories in pictorially rich compositions culled from the museums’ holdings of Persian, South Asian and Ottoman Turkish albums.
Making Paradise
In London, the Aga Khan Centre Gallery is delighted to present Making Paradise, a major new exhibition that explores the concept of Eden through Islamic garden design.
Ensuring long-term preservation: Qutb Shahi Heritage Park, Hyderabad, India
Since 2013, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, in partnership with the Department of Heritage Telangana, has been undertaking conservation works on all monuments along with holistic landscape development of the 106-acre Qutb Shahi Heritage Park. Eight years of dedicated effort to conserve the historic monuments and step-wells, and restore the landscape including pathways, water bodies and green spaces covered with grass and fruit trees has reinstated the original grandeur envisaged by the Qutb Shahi builders.
Artist Radha Chaddah explores microscopic level of coronavirus in ‘IAM: Dance of the Molecules’ Exhibit at Aga Khan Museum
Radha Chaddah is a microbiologist and artist who has created a visual performance installation, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The exhibit is now on at the Aga Khan Museum.
New Aga Khan Museum exhibition combines art and science to tell Covid-19 story through ‘Dance of the Molecules’
Visual artist Radha Chaddah has always had an abiding interesting in science so when artistic opportunities dried up as the pandemic hit, Chaddah got inspired.