{"id":54,"date":"2026-01-29T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:55:04","slug":"prof-alpesh-patel-to-moderate-panel-at-moca-jan-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2026\/01\/29\/prof-alpesh-patel-to-moderate-panel-at-moca-jan-30-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Alpesh Patel to moderate panel at MOCA Jan 30 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Conversations at MOCA with exhibiting artist Hiba Schahbaz and curator Jasmine Wahi, moderated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD. Dive into\u00a0<em>Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden,<\/em>\u00a0her first major retrospective showcasing 15 years of lush paintings inspired by Sufi mysticism, global myths, the feminist gaze, and fantastical realms of sea, land, and sky. Framed as a jannat or Paradise Garden with Persian and Mughal char-bagh influences, the exhibition merges Indo-Persian miniature traditions with large-scale works evoking South Florida&#8217;s lush landscapes and themes of transformation, selfhood, and care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversations at MOCA with exhibiting artist Hiba Schahbaz and curator Jasmine Wahi, moderated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD. Dive into\u00a0Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden,\u00a0her first major&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2026\/01\/29\/prof-alpesh-patel-to-moderate-panel-at-moca-jan-30-2026\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prof. Alpesh Patel to moderate panel at MOCA Jan 30 2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7,22,24],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","tag-art-history","tag-patel","tag-transcultural","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}