Jerusalem’s Museum for Islamic Art Pulls Plug on Controversial Collection Sale

The L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem has canceled its plan to deaccession 268 items from its permanent collection that were set to be sold at Sotheby’s. When the sale was first announced for the end of October, a public outcry ensued, and the auctions of Islamic art and object of vertu, which were set to fetch £5.1 million ($7 million) were subsequently postponed.
In an unexpected move, the Al Thani Collection Foundation, which holds the vast art collection of the Qat