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NEW YORK -- In 1983, at Japan Society in Manhattan, I saw a show of early Buddhist sculpture so beautiful that I maxed out my Visa card to fly to Japan to find more. It was my first time there. I spoke no Japanese. I'd prepared no itinerary. So I started where most art-tourists do, at the Tokyo National Museum. It's a roomy, clean-lined, modern-feeling place. I felt right at home.
Two small exhibitions, one at the Met Cloisters, the other at the Wallach Art Gallery, bring the personal and political dynamics of devotional art to the fore.
A new exhibit at the Met Cloisters illustrates the intermingled histories of Spain’s Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities.
Communities of Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived and worked side by side in medieval Spain for centuries, and the vibrant artistic traditions they created often intersected in ways that transcended religious differences.