Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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“I was also really blown away by the fact that [Night in the Garden of Love] is written in a kind of musical tone. And that allowed me to think about how you took a book and made it an experience.”

Shezad Dawood, the artist behind our current special exhibition #NightInTheGardenOfLove, had known of Yusef Lateef since childhood, but it wasn’t until he was an adult that the full immersion into Lateef’s world began. In Dawood’s words, “it’s […] hard to say where Lateef ends and I begin.”

Learn more about the exhibition at agakhanmuseum.org/nightinthegardenoflove