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The Louvre’s New Islamic Galleries Bring Riches to Light – NYTimes.com. Now the museum is again risking the public’s wrath as it introduces the most radical architectural intervention since the pyramid in 1989. Designed to house new galleries for Islamic art, it consists of ground- and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre’s south wing, right below the museum’s most popular galleries, where the Mona Lisa and Veronese’s “Wedding Feast of Cana” are hung.

Mentioning this since they show love to my friend Wajahat Ali and his play Domestic Crusaders. — Dear Friend, Parwaz Playhouse is excited to announce its next production: BEYOND THE HORIZON by Eugene O’Neill, adapted and directed by Imran S. Javaid. Starring Adeel Ahmed, Aizzah Fatima, Kamran Khan, Fawzia Mahmood, and Imran W. Sheikh. Parwaz Playhouse’s first original play, GLASS, was performed to a sold-out audience at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in April 2010. Having received tremendous acclaim from the BBC, Bridges TV, Elan Magazine and other critical outlets, Parwaz Playhouse now presents a colorful and profound adaptation of…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Contemporary Iranian Art from the Permanent Collection. This exhibition features seven works by three generations of Iranian artists—Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (b. 1924), Parviz Tanavoli (b. 1937), Y.Z. Kami (b. 1956), Shirin Neshat (b. 1957), Afruz Amighi (b. 1974), and Ali Banisadr (b. 1976)—four of whom live and work in the United States, while two continue to work in Iran. Despite their diverse modes of expression, these artworks reflect an intrinsic connection with Iran and address issues of identity, political and social concerns, gender, nostalgia, and cultural pride.