{"id":2209,"date":"2013-08-20T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:02:10","slug":"imran-qureshi-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/imran-qureshi-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Qureshi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sobriety and simplicity of Imran Qureshi&rsquo;s Roof Garden installation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2013\/imran-qureshi\" title=\"Met Museum\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> is a sharp contrast to previous Met roof projects (like the Starn brothers&rsquo; climbable bamboo labyrinth in 2010).&nbsp; Partly in response to deadly bombings in Lahore, Qureshi paints the roof&rsquo;s floor and walls with blood-red paint splatters and beautifully rendered floral motifs.&nbsp; (At the Met through Nov 3rd.) &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><em>Imran Qureshi, installation view of &lsquo;The Roof Garden Commission:&nbsp; Imran Qureshi,&rsquo; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/3788294\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/3788294\/original.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/b3e0c478-0fb1-458a-858e-0b3b73d23df7?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sobriety and simplicity of Imran Qureshi&rsquo;s Roof Garden installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a sharp contrast to previous Met roof projects (like the Starn brothers&rsquo; climbable bamboo labyrinth in 2010).&nbsp; Partly in response to deadly bombings in Lahore, Qureshi paints the roof&rsquo;s floor and walls with blood-red paint splatters and beautifully &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/imran-qureshi-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imran Qureshi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,147,18,1677,246,114,1678,1679,1672,38,102,1450,33,1680,1676,1675,1674,1673],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-blood","tag-conceptual-art","tag-contemporary-art","tag-floral","tag-flowers","tag-imran-qureshi","tag-installation","tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","tag-museum-tour","tag-painting","tag-political-art","tag-red","tag-roof-garden","tag-roof-installation","tag-starn-brothers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/file14.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-zD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}