Opening Day Lecture | “From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection” Sunday, June 22, 2025 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
Rosemary Crill
Phulkari Head Cover (Bagh) (detail), Punjab, Pakistan, 19th century, cotton embroidered with floss silk threads, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Banoo and Jeevak Parpia Collection, gift of Banoo and Jeevak Parpia.
Phulkari Head Cover (Bagh), Punjab, Pakistan, 19th century, cotton embroidered with floss silk threads, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Banoo and Jeevak Parpia Collection, gift of Banoo and Jeevak Parpia.
June 22, 2025
Guest curator Rosemary Crill presents a lecture to accompany the opening of the exhibition From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection.
The exhibition showcases the Museum’s recent acquisition of Indian textiles from the holdings of New York–based Banoo and Jeevak Parpia, one of the most significant private collections of its kind outside India.
Plan Your Visit
- This lecture is included with Museum admission.
- The program takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Speaker
Rosemary Crill was senior curator for South Asia at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London until her retirement in 2016. Her books include Indian Embroidery, The Fabric of India, Indian Ikat Textiles, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, and Marwar Painting: A History of the Jodhpur Style.
“From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection” is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the John M. O'Quinn Foundation; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.