City of peace, division, or both? Art show celebrates Jerusalem

Four years ago, the cocurators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven, visited Theophilos III, the city’s Orthodox patriarch, and solicited his community’s cooperation.

After a “pregnant pause,” the gray-bearded prelate asked quietly, “Whose story do you intend to tell?’

Cocurators Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb recall replying: “All of them and none of them.”