Curator politics in displaying Islamic art are up for discussion at Abu Dhabi event
THE NATIONAL
By Nick Leech
EGYPT---The symbolic power of public displays of Islamic treasures - lustrous ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, embroidered silks, carved ivories, fine carpets and intricate scientific instruments - is a powerful tool that has long been used by caliphs and sultans and more recently by art historians and museum curators alike. “We are not a museum of Islamic art, we are exhibiting Islamic art within a global vision and with a global approach that will address the relations, the common ground and the differences between Europe and Asia. [link]
By Nick Leech
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| Visitors in 2010 at the newly refurbished Islamic Art Museum in downtown Cairo. The museum was badly damaged in a suicide car bombing in 2014. Khaled Desouki / AFP Photo |
