As LACMA prepares for the 2026 public opening of the new David Geffen Galleries, the future home of the museum’s permanent collection spanning a breadth of eras and cultures, we’re sharing 50 iconic artworks that will be on view in the building over the next 50 weeks in the series 50 Works 50 Weeks.The Persian album, or muraqq‘a, which flourished from the 15th to the 17th century in Iranian lands, is a compendium of calligraphy and paintings bound in a booklike format, with facing pages of each medium arranged in alternate fashion.