When the museum felt a budget pinch, hours for the Islamic galleries were often curtailed.

But once I am full of scones I will amble through the renainssance, fashion and Islamic galleries happily.

In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Islamic galleries are closed for renovation.

A metal incense burner in the Islamic galleries is "a massive form, but with a lacy surface that opens up the mass, like a human body with skin.

Then she likened a metal incense burner in the Islamic galleries, with its lacy perforations for releasing the smoke, to "a human body with skin.

One is the Hagop Kevorkian special exhibitions gallery, a tiny space tucked in a corner of the Islamic galleries on the second floor.

In the Islamic galleries, color is as if reborn.

I found Helen and Brice Marden, the painters, in the Islamic galleries.

One can usually be assured of solitude in the Met's stunning Islamic galleries.

(Such works are also on view in the Islamic galleries.)