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“Opulent and Apolitical: The Art of the Met’s Islamic Galleries”

Last updated on: August 4, 2015 at 1:31 am

August 4, 2015 by Dan Peterson

NY Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Islamic collections at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art really are remarkable, and were even before the redesign. My favorite single object is still probably the Houghton “Shahnameh.”
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Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for calling my attention to this:

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/03/429010005/opulent-and-apolitical-the-art-of-the-mets-islamic-galleries?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150803

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