Word: artes
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Former Fogg Art Museum curator Stuart Cary Welch '50 donated 300 works of Islamic art to the Arthur M. Sackler Museum last week...
...collected works, which include drawings, paintings and other objects of Persian, Turkish and Indian origin, is the largest donation the museum's Islamic and Later Indian Art department has ever received...
...pieces, about 190 are from the Rajasthan area in northeast India. James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums, said the new works make the Sackler home to the strongest collection of Rajasthani material in the country...
Welch has been collecting Islamic art for more than 50 years. Although he never formally studied the subject, he is considered an expert in his field and his collection is one of the most extensive in the world...
Phuong addressed the question of whether an art form allegedly created in the Bronx belonged in an Asian cultural event by saying that he was Asian and that he grew up with "B-boying...