Thursday, November 20, 2008
Visual Art Old Shows
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:34 AM
Most museum web sites do not list their entire known history of exhibitions, but the new Henry Art Gallery site does, all the way back to 1927, the gallery's first year.
That year brought Persian art from the collection of the Persian Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, Dr. Ali Kuli Khan. There are no photographs. But included in his collection, reportedly, was a copy of the Koran written on a scroll of 12 yards of narrow silk paper to be worn in a lacquered case as a bracelet—"a sort of theological wrist watch," among many other things.
You can lose a few hours in that archive.
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Thanks for posting, Jen! We're working hard - and from the present backwards - to link up the information and images that we have from the past exhibitions. Just curious, how and where did you find out about Khan's "wristwatch?"
-Betsey
-Betsey
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