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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has just reopened its Islamic galleries, which now include two-hundred new objects on display
Apollo, March, 2005
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has just reopened its Islamic galleries, which now include two-hundred new objects on display. In 2002 LACMA acquired the collection of Maan Madina, a professor at Columbia University, which totals 750 objects. The Madina collection covers all Islamic art, but concentrates on the Arab world, such as Egypt, Syria and Iraq.
It complements well the rest of LACMA'S collection, which was not, for instance, particularly strong in Syrian art. The total collection is now one of the best dozen in the world. Highlights include a parchment page from a ninth-century Koran, a sixteenth-century iznik bowl decorated with artichokes and tulips, and this fifteenth-century tile (left) from Greater Iran, assembled as mosaic. It also contains the only known examples from Timurid Iran of large glazed ceramic ewers. The acquisition was largely funded by a gift from LACMA trustee Camilla Chandler Frost, the daughter of Norman Chandler, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
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