"Published to commemorate the centennial of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Luminous Modernism accompanies a recent exhibition at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America that sought to reflect on and update the Foundation’s first-ever exhibition, the highly influential Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, held in 1912–1913. The original exhibition comprised 150 works by many of the leading artists working in Denmark ..."
"Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic Manuscript Tradition explores this aspect of Islamic history with studies of the materials and tools of literate culture, including pens, inks, and papers, Qur ans, Persian and Mughal illustrated manuscripts, Ottoman devotional works, cartographical manuscripts, printed books, and Islamic er ..."