Author: Walter B. Denny


Walter B. Denny teaches art history at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and serves, one day a week, as Senior Consultant in Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He writes extensively on the art of Ottoman Turkey, and has photographed the Middle East since he was 15.

Posts by Walter B. Denny

In a dramatic finish to eight years of effort, 11 masters of traditional Moroccan interior arts spent nearly a year in residence to create the Moroccan Courtyard in the authentic style of the 14th century, the era that produced the masterpiece mosques, madrassas and palaces of North Africa and southern Spain.

The Met Resets a Gem

n November, after an eight-year, $50-million renovation, 15 galleries devoted to “The Arts of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia” will open in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art….

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