The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
Art
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
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“Reception Room (Qa'a),” dated A.H. 1119/A.D. 1707; Syria, Damascus. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Fund, 1970
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Nov 1, 2011 – June 1
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free w/ admission
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More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—has returned to view in a completely renovated, expanded, and reinstalled suite of 15 galleries. The galleries are organized by geographical area and emphasize the rich diversity of the Islamic world, over a span of 1300 years. The New York Times calls them “necessary, liberating, and intoxicatingly pleasurable,” the Economist says “magnificent... the marvels keep coming,” and New York Magazine writes, “the Met’s glorious new galleries… have an encyclopedic name, and they make the greatest encyclopedic museum on Earth even greater.”
