ART

After scoring a hit with its lavish “Treasure Houses of Britain” exhibition last winter, the National Gallery of Art in Washington on Sunday opened “The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent,” the first major U.S. exhibition of art from the golden age of the Ottoman Empire. The collection of unfamiliar 16th Century art treasures of the Ottoman Empire began a four-month engagement in the gallery’s modern East Building. The exhibit will run at the National Gallery until May 17. It will appear at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 13 to Sept. 6 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Oct. 4 to Jan. 17, 1988.