Museum Exhibition

Raqib Shaw at The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Gardens

Posted: 30 October 2024

Raqib Shaw, *Ode to the Country without a Post Office*, 2019–20

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16 November 2024 – 3 March 2025

Los Angeles, California

Opening this November at The Huntington, Raqib Shaw’s ‘Ballads of East and West’ features paintings and tapestries that interweave the artist’s childhood memories of Kashmir with vivid reflections on the urgent climate crisis. While some works depict paradisiacal scenes, others reveal Boschian landscapes engulfed in flames. In ‘Ballads of East and West’, Shaw envisions a world where these dichotomies are subsumed into the realm of imagination.

The exhibition will be on view in the Huntington Gallery’s North Passage through March 2025. ‘Ballads of East and West’ is a US touring exhibition organised by the Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN) and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA). The exhibition premiered at the Frist Art Museum, followed by presentations at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.