{"id":2874,"date":"2016-02-05T19:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2016-02-05T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:49:57","slug":"sound-and-light-at-the-peabody-where-east-meets-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Sound and Light at the Peabody where East meets West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2875\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160205_155639-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"20160205_155639\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160205_155639-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160205_155639-768x1374.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160205_155639-572x1024.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160205_155639.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a>Excited to be in Salem for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pem.org\/press\/press_release\/329-pem_presents_imagine_south_asia_a_weekend-long_cultural_exploration_featuring_film_music_dance_performance_discussion_and_a_new_exhibition\" target=\"_blank\">a remarkably innovative weekend put together by Sona Datta and her colleagues at the Peabody Essex Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As some readers may remember, I made a series for the BBC with Sona last year &#8211; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02qvb1j\" target=\"_blank\">Treasures Of The Indus<\/a><\/em> &#8211; for which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2709\" target=\"_blank\">we travelled to Pakistan <\/a>and India.<\/p>\n<p>Now Sona is not only having a screening of the films for an American audience, but has tied it into a new exhibition by the talented Anila Quayyum Agha, who has created an installation that conjures up the spirit of Spain\u2019s Alhambra Palace, where a thousand years ago Islamic and Christian traditions thrived in coexistence.<\/p>\n<p>A square black cube of steel weighing some 600 lbs has been laser cut by Anila into filigree work like that of a jali screen, so that the light from a single bulb inside creates a shimmering effect around the yellow room.\u00a0 (I did ask her how she was ever going to change the bulb\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>And Sona is also putting on a Night at the Museum party, hosted by my old friend Bee Taylor and his House Of Honey collective, when more light projections will be played around the atrium of the building itself.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that outside it\u2019s blowing a Boston snowstorm won\u2019t stop some determined partying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excited to be in Salem for a remarkably innovative weekend put together by Sona Datta and her colleagues at the Peabody Essex Museum. As some readers may remember, I made a series for the BBC with Sona last year &#8211; Treasures Of The Indus &#8211; for which we travelled to Pakistan and India. Now Sona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}