Clare Davies, associate curator for modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, visited the American University of Beirut (AUB) as a guest of the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the university. She held a luncheon workshop with the graduate students of AUB’s Department of Fine Arts and Art History, during which she discussed her work as a curator at an encyclopedic museum, describing the challenges she faces as she seeks to put the museum’s modern and ancient ...