Saturday, Nov 5, 2pm at the Tibetan Museum, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island NY 10306

As Staten Island OutLOUD celebrates Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon for The Big Read, we’ll take a cultural detour to explore on of Staten Island’s treasures, the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art.  And there we’ll find some intriguing & unexpected tie-ins to some themes and imagery in The Maltese Falcon.

We’ll examine how Tibetan art and art objects incorporate bird images (plenty of cranes, maybe a falcon or two), and the Himalayan custom of sky burial (plenty of vulture, and maybe a few falcons, as they eat carrion).  We’ll also hear from Meg Ventrudo, the museum’s Director, about a notorious  Asian art heist – Shades of The Maltese Falcon?

This event is free and open to the public.