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Monday, April 11, 2005
"Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art From the Victoria and Albert Museum."
Kimbell Art Museum: April3 - September 4, 2005
Candlestick. Brass inlaid with silver. Egypt, late 13th or early 14th century; the inlay renewed at a later date. V&A: M.716–1910. Bequest of George Salting
FORT WORTH—The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London has one of the most important and renowned Islamic art collections in the world. Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum includes over 100 of the V&A’s finest masterpieces, many exhibited for the first time outside the museum. They convey the richness of Islamic art on a scale unrivaled for its quality and depth outside the Middle East. This extraordinary loan is on view at the Kimbell from April 3 to September 4, 2005. Commented Dr. Timothy Potts, director of the Kimbell Art Museum, “The refurbishing of the V&A’s Islamic galleries has provided a unique opportunity to bring a broad selection of the museum’s most beautiful and important works to the United States, where they are being shown only at the Kimbell and the National Gallery, Washington (where the exhibition ran July 18, 2004–February 6, 2005). The result is a spectacular panorama of an exotic and still underappreciated civilization that has had long-standing artistic and political relations with Europe and the rest of the world, each culture greatly enriching the other. ...