MFAH scores Islamic artworks

by Bill Davenport May 19, 2010

Douglas Britt of the Houston Chronicle noted that last Friday’s gala fundraiser for the MFAH’s burgeoning Arts of the Islamic World collection netted the MFAH a 15th-century inlaid scribe’s box, an illuminated manuscript of the Ruba’yat of Omar Khayyam, a copy of one of the earliest anatomy atlasses, a 19th-century Turkish lute, and 99 Names, a 2007 sculpture by Iranian-born, New York-based artist Afruz Amighi. Cathy and Vahid Kooros gave the museum an Egyptian brass basin in honor of Vahid’s 105-year-old father, Kazem Koroos.

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