The Frick Pittsburgh’s executive director said the exhibit, now rescheduled for August 2024, “risked seeming to romanticize or even trivialize Islamic culture.”
This March 24, 2014, photo shows the Frick art museum on the grounds of the former home of 19th century steel titan Henry Clay Frick in Pittsburgh. Years ago, staff at a Pittsburgh art museum booked an exhibition that would showcase Islamic art across 10 centuries, with plans for a November 2023 opening.
The dust-up has reflected tensions that have rippled across the United States since the Israel-Gaza war began. Federal officials have said that threats to Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities have been On Oct. 16, just over one week after the Israel-Gaza war began, the museum decided to postpone the exhibition “with the intention of making it better,” according to Barker’s statement. She said museum staff examined the curation and “became concerned about the light historical context and the western lens of our team.”Before it opens next year, the museum plans to receive input from the Muslim community in the Pittsburgh area, Barker added.
“Just in general, we know that blaming any religious group for the actions of a terrorist organization or a foreign government is an incident of bias,” said Hertzman, the organization’s associate vice president of marketing.
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