Reviewing the activities of 1997, the word that comes to mind is “continuation”. That can be a bad thing, but in the case of the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah and 1997, it wasn’t.
Cultural Season Two concluded on 26 May and Cultural Season Three got underway on 10 November. Going into its third year, the DAI Cultural Season was already a well-entrenched part of the calendar for hundreds of people – Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti.
Hadeeth ad-Dar continued to publish DAI lectures. With the autumn 1997 issue, the distribution list topped 2,500. Islamic Art and Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait was now at the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, Portugal. As it had in all its prior locations, the exhibition continued to attract curious visitors and positive media coverage for the exhibition and Kuwait. Loans to the L’Institut du Monde Arabe’s exhibition A l’Ombre d’Avicenne, les Siècles Arabes, also continued its successful run. The DAI’s relationship with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York continued to grow, the objects from the collection being loaned to the new Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets from the Mughals exhibition.
Sheikha Hussah continued to participate in international conferences, including the 3rd AMAR-UNESCO conference, “European and Islamic Dialogue: a Permanent Space for Dialogue” held at UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris, France. During the three day conference, she spoke on “Islamic Art in War and Peace”.
In 1997, DAI activities continued to grow, to serve, and to illuminate.
Exhibition
22 October - 22 February 1998
Islamic Art and Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
IAP in Lisbon, Portugal
Exhibitions Loans
2 March 1997
loans to A l’Ombre d’Avicenne, les Siècles Arabes,
L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Caption
17 November - 1 March 1998
loans to Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets from the Mughals
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
DAI Director General Meetings and Conferences
5 - 7 March
“Islamic Art in War and Peace”, for the 3rd AMAR-UNESCO conference, European and Islamic Dialogue: a Permanent Space or Dialogue at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Philip Mansel Manuel Keene Vassilios Christides Tareq Suielim Leila Badre Tadeusz Majda Adel T. Adamov Petra Martin al-Awadhi Hermann Jungraithmayr Vorsitzender Stefano Carboni Sabiha Khemir Marc Barety Anna Contadini
26 May
Cultural Season 2 ends
10 November
Cultural Season 3 begins
Andrew Camden Abdul-Rahman al-Tayyib al-Ansary Saeed Ashoor B.J. Slot Yacoub al-Hajji George Saliba Nader Ardalan Manual Keene Nasser Rabbat
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