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In one of those astonishing pieces of convergence that you could never get away with in fiction, Sister Wendy's American series episode tonight is from the New York Metropolitan Museum of art, and the two first pieces she chooses are a shattered Egyptian head of a queen, which she sees themes of violence and perfection in, and even more strikingly, Islamic art is her second topic, she deeply admires the beautiful forms of a prayer alcove from Iran and a page from the Koran.

• Sister Wendy's American Collection
  (I just noticed the twin World Trade Center towers in the distance behind her on the home page of this series)
  
• Fragmentary Head of a Queen
  
• Mihrab
  
• Leaf from a Qur'an manuscript
  

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