Review of the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands
Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Text and photos by Neal Rosenau
You know from the moment you set eyes on it that you are in a different place from where you’ve been before. Whether you arrive from the city street or from another part of the museum, when you enter through the distinctive white Turkish marble portals, you are someplace memorably different. And it is beautiful.