"The refurbishing of the V&A's Islamic galleries has provided a unique opportunity to bring a broad selection of the museum's most beautiful and important works to the United States," said Dr. Timothy Potts, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. "The result is a spectacular panorama of an exotic and still underappreciated civilization that has had long-standing artistic and political relations with Europe and the rest of the world, each culture greatly enriching the other."
