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Still from Shahzia Sikander's digital animation The Last Post (2010)

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Penn Quarter

Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

Now showing3 July 2025 – 8 November 2026·Free

Une animation de dix minutes dans laquelle un représentant de la British East India Company se dissout au cœur de miniatures indo-persanes en constante métamorphose, portée par la musique de la compositrice Du Yun, lauréate du prix Pulitzer.

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© 2025 Shahzia Sikander, courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly; Smithsonian American Art Museum (Courtesy of the museum)