The Met’s Islamic collection reopens!
Posted on Oct 28th 2011 by Elisabeth Kvernen.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City opened a newly reinstalled exhibit this week for their Islamic art collection, called the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.
The exhibit is a treasure trove for calligraphy. From the New York Times’ art review:
The written word is omnipresent. Whether in the form of love poems, proverbs or passages from Islam’s holy book, the Koran, calligraphy spreads like a fine net over everything, creating an art that almost literally speaks.
Learn more on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.
3 Responses to “The Met’s Islamic collection reopens!”
Jaxsprats on: February 24th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
I saw this exhibit and it’s absolutely amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/user/jaxsprat11?feature=mhee#p/u/1/58-GFsv4Ke8
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