Aga Khan Trust for Culture Collaborates with the Louvre and Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is collaborating with the Louvre on two exhibitions of Islamic art in Paris, as well as with the Museum of Decorative Arts, also in Paris.
Exhibitions at the Louvre
Museum of Decorative Arts/Le mus’e des arts d’coratifs
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is also the main sponsor of an exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts entitled “Purs d’cors’ Chefs d’oeuvre de l’Islam aux Arts D�coratifs” (Pure decoration’ Islamic masterpieces at the Decorative Arts Museum), which will run from 11 October 2007 to 13 January 2008.
The museum has an outstanding collection of over 3,000 works of Islamic Art, including carpets, textiles, ceramics and miniatures. The exhibition is designed to question the artificial distinction between “fine” arts and “decorative” or “applied” arts a differentiation particularly impossible to make in the field of Islamic art. When the show is over, almost the whole collection will be handed over on loan to the Louvre.
For exhibition times and other details, please see information in English and Francais.
For the Museum of Decorative Arts catalogue, please see the museum’s website.
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