Farida R. Khan
I am an art historian and studied art history and languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I have delivered gallery lectures on arms and armour at the Wallace Collection, London and worked on curatorial projects at the Ashmolean Museum, Museum of History of Science and Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
I work on Private Collections in a research and advisory role.
Writing has appeared in; Scroll.In, Middle East Eye, Funoon London, The New Arab and Asian Review of Books.
For writing, research and advisory commissions, get in touch:
Middle East Eye
Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow
The New Arab
Artists making books: poetry to politics by Venetia Porter, British Museum.
Scroll.in
With ‘Suspended in Time’, Ali Kazim addresses the decolonisation debate in the art world
How the Partition almost killed the glorious tradition of Punjabi phulkari embroidery
Asian Review of Books
Mamluks: 1250-1517, Louvre, Paris
Ancient India at The British Museum
The Great Mughals, Art, Architecture and Opulence by Susan Stronge
Breathing Space: Iranian Women Photographers by Anahita Ghabaian
Jali: Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal Architecture
China’s Hidden Century at the British Museum
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece British Museum
“Island of Bewilderment” by Simin Daneshvar
“Hafez in Love” by Iraj Pezeshkzad
“The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian” by Iftikhar H Malik
Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World
“Four Dervishes” by Hammad Rind”
“The Lost Fragrance of Infinity” by Moin Mir
Essays
Abu Zayd, Master Potter and Poet of Kashan
Emperor Qianlong’s fascination with ‘Hindustan’ Jades
Meissen Porcelain and ‘Indian’ Stylistic Influences
Ivory and Jade: Opulent hilts in the Oriental Armouries, Wallace Collection
Waqas Khan at the Manchester Museum