LOUVRE AND MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART IN CAIRO MAKE DEAL REGARDING ANTIQUITIES

Gareth Harris of Art Newspaper writes that the Louvre and the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo have made a deal to share resources and put on joint exhibitions after a suicide bombing in 2014 harmed the nineteenth-century Cairo institution, forcing it to close. No date has been set for the museum’s reopening.

As part of the deal, a group of curators from the Cairo museum will spend six weeks at the Louvre, starting this month, to work with its curators in the Department of Islamic Art in regard to collection maintenance and archiving.

An exhibition at the Cairo museum, organized by the Egyptian curators with the Louvre, is set to open in Cairo sometime during 2017 and eventually travel to the Louvre at a later date.