The Frick Pittsburgh Museum has postponed an Islamic Art Exhibition over concerns regarding the ongoing Gaza war, a report said.

According to The Art Newspaper, the planned exhibition titled “Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art” would have featured modern and ancient Islamic glassware, ceramic, metalwork, painting, weaponry and more.

“The museum announced the postponement of the exhibition on October 17. While the decision has elicited criticism from Muslim civil rights groups in the US, the exhibition remains unscheduled on the museum’s website,” the report states.

It quotes the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report saying that the museum initially did not plan to broadcast news of the postponement, hoping that a lack of outside attention or internal communication would allow for a quiet retraction of the proposed dates and subject.

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