Vivek Gupta

Vivek Gupta is a scholar of South Asian and Islamic art, aesthetics, and literature. He has held positions at the Freer|Sackler Galleries and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has graduate degrees from Columbia University.

Art

New York’s New Institution Devoted to Arab and Islamic Art Seeks a Sense of Place

Zarina Hashmi's work that imagines "home" as an idea we carry with us sets the tone for the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art's first exhibition in New York.

Art

Talismanic Calligraphy Made Contemporary in Marrakech

Unlike many of Koraïchi’s contemporaries, who seek to abstract calligraphic forms, he not only nods at tradition, but, as an artist of Sufi lineage himself, he inscribes his work within it.