Showing posts with label Islamic art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islamic art. Show all posts
Friday, March 18, 2011
Labels:
Doha,
Islamic art,
Museum
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
CNN: CNN's Icon previews a new collection of Arabian artifacts, the fruit of a 40-year archeology project.
Labels:
France,
Islamic art,
Louvre,
Paris,
Saudi Arabia
Monday, January 11, 2010
WELT ONLINE: Aufregung in New York: Das Metropolitan Museum of Art will einem Medienbericht zufolge Kunstwerke mit Mohammed-Bildern nicht mehr zeigen. Außerdem soll die Abteilung für "Islamische Kunst" umbenannt werden. Ein Islamwissenschaftler von der Yale Universität spricht von einer "Schande".
Das Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will Kunstwerke mit Mohammed-Bildern nicht mehr zeigen. Außerdem werden diese Bilder wohl auch nicht mehr in der neuen Ausstellung, die 2011 nach der Renovierung des Museums eröffnet werden soll, hängen, berichtet die „New York Post“.
Momentan sind wegen des 50 Millionen Dollar teuren Umbaus des Hauses nur etwa 60 von 60.000 islamischen Kunstwerken im Metropolitan zu sehen. Weil aber konservative Muslime am Abbildungsverbot für ihren Propheten Mohammed festhalten, seien die Kunstwerke „unter Beobachtung“, heißt es. Außerdem habe das Museum angekündigt, seine Abteilung für „Islamische Kunst“ in „Arabische Länder, Türkei, Iran und Zentralasien“ umzubenennen. >>> Von Uta Baier | Montag, 11. Januar 2010
NEW YORK POST: Mohammed art gone
Is the Met afraid of Mohammed?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art quietly pulled images of the Prophet Mohammed from its Islamic collection and may not include them in a renovated exhibition area slated to open in 2011, The Post has learned.
The museum said the controversial images -- objected to by conservative Muslims who say their religion forbids images of their holy founder -- were "under review."
Critics say the Met has a history of dodging criticism and likely wants to escape the kind of outcry that Danish cartoons of Mohammed caused in 2006.
"This is typical of the Met -- trying to avoid any controversy," said a source with inside knowledge of the museum.
The Met currently has about 60 items from its 60,000-piece Islamic collection on temporary display in a corner of its vast second-floor Great Hall while larger galleries are renovated. But its three ancient renderings of Mohammed are not among them. >>> Isabel Vincent | Sunday, January 10, 2010
Friday, November 20, 2009
LE FIGARO: Des manuscrits du Coran si petits qu'ils tiennent dans la paume de la main aux lourds rideaux de la Kaaba ; des premières estampes panoramiques de La Mecque aux miniatures de la chronique des rois perses ; des émeraudes intaillées pour le trésor du Grand Moghol aux tapis évoquant dans la soie ou le velours les jardins du paradis : l'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit se côtoient dans cette collection d'arts islamiques. Tant il est vrai que, pour le croyant, Dieu est partout, dans l'Univers comme dans le détail. >>> Éric Biétry-Rivierre (Figaroscope) | Mardi 20 Octobre 2009
Bienvenue à l’institut du Monde Arabe >>>
Quantara – Patrimonie Méditerranéen – Traversées d’Orient et d’Occident (قنطرة) >>>
Labels:
Islamic art
Saturday, April 12, 2008
BBC: A 12th Century key to Islam's holiest shrine has sold at auction in London for £9.2m ($18.1m).
The key to the Kaaba - the ancient cube-shaped shrine in Mecca - went to an anonymous bidder at Sotheby's.
The auction house said the price set a record for the sale of an Islamic work of art.
Made of iron and measuring 37cm (15in) in length, the key is engraved with the words "This was made for the Holy House of God".
The key was the centrepiece of Sotheby's Islamic art sale, which realised more than £21.5m ($40m) in total.
'Important symbol'
Head of Sotheby's Islamic art department Edward Gibbs said: "Remarkably, the sale realised more than the Islamic department's annual total for 2007, demonstrating beyond doubt the burgeoning and international demand for Islamic art."
The key is the only known example to be in private hands. All of the other 58 Kaaba keys are in museums.
Sotheby's said the key was "arguably one of the most important symbols of Islam".
The auction house said the keys were dedicated to caliphs, starting with the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad.
"As a physical object, the key to the holiest building of an entire religion, it demonstrates the authority of the caliph and is the ultimate emblem of power," said Sotheby's. [Source: BBC: Holy Islamic Key Sets Sale Record]
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback - UK)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback - UK)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)