{"id":170,"date":"2011-11-02T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/islamic-art-exhibit-reopens-at-met-after-eight-years\/"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T13:48:32","slug":"islamic-art-exhibit-reopens-at-met-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/islamic-art-exhibit-reopens-at-met-after-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Art Exhibit Reopens At Met After Eight Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Islamic Art Exhibit Reopens At Met After Eight Years, Flickr: Alexia Boulot\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/11\/TheMet.jpg\" alt=\"Islamic Art Exhibit Reopens At Met After Eight Years, Flickr: Alexia Boulot\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Met<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan <strong>Museum<\/strong> of Art is a must for anyone with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-new-york-city-nyc-new-york\">flights to New York<\/a><\/strong> and now it just got a little more hoopla to the hype.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday marked the reopening of the <strong>art museum\u2019s<\/strong> Islamic art collection. It\u2019s the first time the exhibit has been open since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/02\/islamic-art-the-met_n_1069718.html?ref=new-york&amp;ir=New%20York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Huffington Post<\/a> report, it\u2019s undergone $40 million worth of renovation and expansion work.<\/p>\n<p>The space also has a new moniker: Galleries for the <strong>Art<\/strong> of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>It covers nearly 20,000 square feet, nearly a third of the size bigger before it was renovated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/racoon3000\/6137637355\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexia Boulot <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Met &nbsp; The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a must for anyone with flights to New York and now it just got a little more hoopla to the hype. Tuesday marked the reopening of the art museum\u2019s Islamic art collection. It\u2019s the first time the exhibit has been open since 2003. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201539,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/97201539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}