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The exhibition will feature all of the manuscript’s fifty illuminated and illustrated folios, will introduce the beauty and art historical importance of the Peck Shahnama to the public for the first time. This sweeping epic contains over 50,000 verses and countless tales of Iran’s ancient kings and heroes. Firdausi’s Shahnama has been a source of artistic inspiration in Persian culture for centuri...

This major exhibition will present Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the Pearlman Collection and will feature paintings and sculptures by artists who were transformative members of the avant-garde of their day. This exhibition will offer insights not only into the development of Impressionism and Post Impressionism, but into the history of collecting avant-garde art in the Uni...

This exibition comprises rarely seen highlights from this renowned collection. Watercolors are a distinctive amalgam of painting and drawing, in which color and line combine to produce effects of unparalleled nuance and suppleness. The Museum’s holdings of American watercolors are distinguished by their quality, breadth, and the duration with which they have been consistently collected. This exibi...

The exhibition includes striking examples of Pop art, whose practitioners’ fascination with celebrities and commercial imagery defined much of the art of the 1960s. The exhibition concludes with three artists from the groundbreaking 1999 exhibition Another Girl, Another Planet, which heralded the arrival of a new generation of female photographers and a new approach to documentary photography, one...