Word: viewer
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Parting the curtains of “In the Courtyard of the Beloved,” the viewer enters a sacred alcove of bright colors, intricate geometric decorations, and minarets. The installation—part of the new exhibition at the Peabody Museum, “Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path”—sweeps the viewer away from the gallery, flies him across oceans, pulls him through the crowded streets of Delhi, and finally ushers him into a Sufi shrine. There, the digital still images and audio recordings bring into view a personal practice...
...Peabody exhibition was originally intended to be a display of her photographic documentation of the Muslim sect. However, Quraeshi felt that the photographs would have alone failed to portray a holistic view of Sufism, one that would be able to educate a Western viewer...
...governor of Middle Kingdom Egypt whose luggage for the spiritual world is the focus of “The Secrets of Tomb 10a: Egypt 2000 BC,” on display at the MFA until May 16. With the contents of one particular grave, the show puts the viewer face-to-face (quite literally) with the Egyptians and their dead...
Informative labels, peppered throughout the show, describe the particulars of Egyptian rituals and religion. Large, colorful boards explain the process of discovering, restoring, and understanding the objects that are displayed. They give the exhibition a scholarly tone and direct the viewer through the process of archaeology, rather than simply expose its results...
...intricacies of rigging a cellphone to explode as soon as it is answered. What a remarkably convenient explanation for his inexplicable homicidal ability! The later revelation of who is actually helping Clyde commit his crimes is so inanely simple that it is almost insulting to the intelligence of the viewer...