The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces is a traveling exhibition and varied discourse attempting to investigate the veil in its broadest and most universal context. The work included in this exhibition, which continues through to March 8th, 2013 at the Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, intends to engage current clichés and stereotypes and to reflect on the great ubiquity, importance, and profundity of the veil throughout human history and imagination.

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The renovation, expansion, and re-installation between 2003 and 2011 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 provided conservators and conservation scientists with an extraordinary opportunity to examine and conserve many works of Islamic art in the permanent collection. Discoveries that were made during this period have enhanced many aspects of the re-installation of the galleries. The exhibition Making the Invisible Visible, on view beginning April 2nd, 2013, will demonstrate how our understanding and appreciation of the works of art we see in visible light can be augmented by information gleaned using other wavelengths of light, from infrared to x-rays.

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In Harmony showcases some 150 works from the Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art. Largely unpublished and little known, the collection includes important objects from the Persian cultural sphere, such as luxury glazed ceramics of the early Islamic era, illustrated manuscripts of medieval epic poems, and lacquerware of the early modern era. Among the manuscripts are folios of the Shahnama, by Firdawsi, and the Khamsa, by Nizami.

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See also: Pearls of Persian Art

Among the roughly 170 pieces of Islamic art that Norma Jean Calderwood and her husband left to Harvard, one in particular hints at the late collector’s philosophy: an earthenware bowl bearing, in precise calligraphy, the epigram “Greed is a sign of poverty.” In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art, which opens January 31st, 2013 at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, is both a celebration of Calderwood’s championship of once-obscure work and a showcase of the vibrancy of Iranian culture over time.

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See also: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art