{"id":8747,"date":"2024-07-01T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2024-07-01T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:01:51","slug":"museum-of-jurassic-technology-aims-to-recreate-islamic-spain-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/?p=8747","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Jurassic Technology aims to recreate Islamic Spain in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES\u2014The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) specializes in encyclopedic museum wonders from bygone eras, blending art and science, fact and fiction, history and fantasy. Since its founding in 1988, the museum has hosted exhibitions on a variety of topics, some of which have questionable authenticity, including Hagop Sandaldjian\u2019s miniatures, Ricky Jay\u2019s collection of rotting dice, Cameroon\u2019s stinking ants, and Soviet space dogs. This September, as part of the upcoming PST ART initiative, which focuses on the intersection of art and science, the museum will undertake its most ambitious endeavor yet: an exploration of Islamic architectural forms created in Spain between the 9th and 16th centuries..<\/em> <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is without a doubt the largest project we have ever done at the museum,\u201d said museum founder David Wilson. Allergic <\/em>of Veiled Gazelle – Suggestions of Infinity and Eternity – Islamic Geometry in Medieval Al-Andalus<\/em>.<\/p>\n
The exhibition’s roots, however, lie far away in Spain, but in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, where Wilson and a small team traveled in 2007 during the filming of the film. The Great Decline of the Soviet Union<\/em>The film chronicles the story of Soviet astronomers who emigrated from Leningrad to Uzbekistan in the 1930s to escape Soviet oppression. <\/p>\n