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    In Search of Modernity

    Jun 01, 2022 4 minutes
    BY JAMES D. BALESTRIERI

    AFTER THE TUMULT of the past few years, perhaps we want to look at something beautiful and meditate on how it came to be. Perhaps “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity”, the new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, a glamorous, careful show—jeweled slippers on ice—is just what the doctor ordered. The

    value of escape is not to be taken lightly. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers elegantly distracted the world from the Depression in the 1930s. The Eastern world as a fantasy, projected onto cultures, has the same fascination as the play of light on the facets of diamonds. And that may be

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