[Closing today, Sunday September 15!] As part of “Open Sessions 2018–2020: What’s Love Got to Do with It?” we asked each of our artists-in-residence: “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” Open Sessions artist 2018-20 Bahar Behbahani responds below:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "When the rose is gone and the garden faded⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Jalāl-al-Din Moḥammad Balḵi Rumi’s (d. 672/1273) magnum opus, the Maṯnawi ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Bahar Behbahani lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the 11th Shanghai Biennale, China, and the 7th Moscow Biennale, Russia.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Open Sessions is a two-year program which provides opportunities for selected artists to contextualize work and ideas through exhibitions, public programs, and critical dialogue, organized by Rosario Güiraldes and L...