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August 19, 2009
Sheila Canby, ed. Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran Exh. cat. London: British Museum, 2009. 274 pp.; 240 color ills. Paper £25.00 (9780714124520)

Exhibition schedule: British Museum, London, February 19–June 14, 2009

Inna Vishnevskaya The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2009. 145 pp.; 111 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9780934686136)

Exhibition schedule: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC, May 9–September 13, 2009

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.83

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Ceramic Ewer. Mashhad (1616, with nineteenth-century metal spout). Signed ‘work of Mahmud Mi’mar Yazdi’ and ‘the humble Zari is its decorator.’ From the Mashhad section. © The Trustees of the British Museum.

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It is unusual for major “Western” museums to host simultaneous exhibitions involving the arts of the Islamic world, and more unusual still for any such Islamic art exhibitions to cover similar regions and historical periods or concern related themes. While the overlap of the two shows on view in London and Washington may have resulted from a scheduling fluke, it perhaps also reflects the growing commitment of European and North American museums both to highlighting...