Louvre’s Islamic Art Heads to Quebec, New Jewish and Islamic Museums

June 8th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • Don’t lead those people go! Church members are mad the police went easy on roof thieves
  • As SF papers are abuzz with news (here and here) of the new Jewish museum, the UAE opens the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization (see here), and Qatar builds the Museum of Islamic Art
  • Rev. Robert Reed, minister to prisoners, also collects of their art
  • “Prayers and Meditations”: a collaboration of 11 Maine artists
  • Rev. Patrick Pointer, award-winning carver, says “Everything I do in life is an extension of my ministry”
  • “Treasures Rediscovered” shows Chinese Buddhist sculpture, “a relatively young subject of art-historical study”
  • VMFA hires John Henry Rice, “the new associate curator of South Asian and Islamic art”
  • Design Without Borders reflects “a cultural mosaic … and embraces ethnic, cultural, religious and gender diversity”
  • Mary Eberstadt on “the problems of Dull achievement,” including the “infuriating claim that religion is inseparable from — even responsible for — artistic achievement of the very first order”
  • The Louvre has lent 270 pieces to the Quebec museum, including “several of its Islamic artworks that ‘don’t usually travel’”

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