Artforum
On February 17 at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, French President François Hollande and the king of Morocco Mohammed VI announced that the Moroccan Cultural Centre—the first such center of its kind for Paris—will open there in late 2018, according to Victoria Stapley-Brown of the Art Newspaper.
The Moroccan government is spending nearly $7.4 million on the project, and the architect Tarik Oualalou has been hired to design it. The centre will be built on the boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris’s Latin Quarter, which is actually owned by the Morocco. “The future centre aims to be, in France, the outreach of contemporary Moroccan culture… in music, theatre, painting, photography, poetry and street art,” says Oualalou.
