"Icons from Sinai" in Los Angeles

Icon of Moses and the Burning Bush
Holy Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai
(http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/byzantium_III/monastery_2.html)

I'm very excited... this weekend I head out to L.A. for the icon show at the Getty Museum, an exhibition that has been in the works since my first year at Chicago (and the genesis of my project on the later topographical images of the Sinai Monastery).

"Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai" has been co-curated between my advisor, Rob Nelson, and Kristen Collins at the J. Paul Getty Museum. There is a lovely, interactive website available from the Getty online; for those who can't attend, you should definitely check it out... I'm looking forward to seeing it in person! This weekend is the academic symposium organized to go along with the exhibition. Paroma, one of my fellow U of C students, is presenting among distinguished scholars, =) and Tony Cutler, my M.A. thesis advisor at Penn State, will be respondent for the whole thing. I'm sure both the formal papers and the opportunity for conversations in/among the icons themselves will provide new ideas, as well as helping to develop old thoughts and interests. Looking forward to it.