HOUSTON – Mark your calendars for the 12th annual Islamic Arts Festival — the largest and oldest event of its kind in the United States, celebrating Islamic art and culture. Islamic art is known for ...
In the previous installment of this series, you learned about the different Muslim sects and the interesting ways they mix in the United States. This article will take you through the historical ...
The most prominent art market casualty of the current conflict in the Middle East so far has been the 20th edition of Art ...
This week, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its Keir Collection Gallery, and in doing so it’s exhibiting more than the third largest collection of Islamic art in North America: It’s also exhibiting a ...
When Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosted the Iranian Film Festival in 2006, patron Sima Ladjevardian posed a question to MFAH's then-director Peter Marzio: "What kind of Iranian art do you have?'" she ...
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will be the sole North American venue for an exhibition titled, “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity,” which will open May 14 and run through September 18.
I have a hard time getting excited by pottery and textiles. I can respect the craftsmanship and work that goes into sculpting them and weaving together their intricate patterns, but it just doesn’t ...
Hundreds of rare Islamic artifacts that a Jerusalem museum pulled from the auction block last fall at the 11th hour are headed back to Israel for good thanks to a deal with a private foundation. Last ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design is creating new opportunities for kamaʻāina to indulge in the priceless collection of its founder, Doris Duke, at what was ...
Located in the southern sliver of Islamic Cairo, the Museum of Islamic Art boasts a stunning collection of art from every era of Islamic history in Egypt. Here, you'll find examples of everything from ...
In “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler ...
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., currently hosts Divine Geometry, an exhibition exploring arts in the historical and contemporary Islamic world through paintings, calligraphy, ...