Islamic art encompasses much more than pieces created explicitly for religious purposes, such as an illuminated Quran or an intricately carved minbar in a mosque, it is the art of Muslim people ...

Art; From darkness to everlasting light: all you need to know about the first Islamic Arts Biennale. Rebecca Anne Proctor travels to Jeddah to explore the world’s first Islamic Arts Biennale (until 23 ...

The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba in Spain was constructed in 785 A.D. as a place for Islamic worship under the Islamic Emirate of Córdoba. In 1236, it was converted into a cathedral and is still used ...

This group ranges from a fabulous collection by contemporary, neurodiverse artists to Milton Glaser's pop art, and Aino and Alvar Aalto's Finnish modernist designs to a survey of Islamic architecture.

In its inaugural year, the 2021 Islamic Art Conference at the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture (Ithra) explored how the history of mosques could be best understood by their art. In its ...

A Buddha from China, circa A.D. 590, is made of wood with lacquer, gilding and paint. “Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World” highlights strengths of the Walters Art Museum’s ...

This entwining of the past and present seeks to provoke some of the same questions that are guiding artists, art historians and curators as they re-examine Islamic art’s place in the world.

The International Day of Islamic Art was proclaimed at the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference in 2019 and takes place every year on 18 November. It aims to raise awareness of past and ...

Milwaukee artist and NAdiaNA art gallery owner Nadia Alkhun has had an unusual journey on her way to the art world.. Alkhun, who is from Jordan, has degrees in biotechnology and genetic ...

Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, currently on show at the Dallas Museum of Art after a hugely successful run at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, reveals the way in which ...

It has been almost a year since the only Islamic art gallery of a major museum in Chicago, Gallery 50 of the Art Institute, was closed. While the Art Institute is frequently in the news — the… ...

The Brooklyn Museum’s galleries of the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World reopen with a 20,000-square-foot installation ... Asia and Islam’s Grand Art Histories on View Once More. Share. Resize.