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 ...

As for exhibitions tackling food as an artistic theme, there’s always something simmering. A quick search returns results for “Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism” at ...

Hundreds of years, thousands of miles and varied cultures that flourished on multiple continents harmonize with the Art of the Islamic Worlds Gallery, which opens March 5 at the Museum of Fine Arts ...

(RNS) — In early October, Erika López Prater, a professor at Hamline University in Minnesota, showed her online Islamic art history class an image of the Prophet Muhammad. A Muslim student in the ...

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 engineering ...

“Back in the olden days, the calligraphers would go to mosques,” Mariam Lodin told me. “They would take a feather and gather soot from the ceilings of oil lamps. Then, they would write texts with the ...

There's plenty of art to feast your eyes on in these four very different coffee table books. Presented in reverse chronological order, we move back in time from Art is Art — a fabulous collection of ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The field of “Islamic art” was defined by Europeans in the 1800s – and hinged on geography, style and ...

As the World Cup draws visitors to present-day Doha, the Museum of Islamic Art reopens with an expanded vision and presentation of Islamic history. By David Belcher DOHA, Qatar — As the world’s ...

Streaming platforms for The Art of Islam at The Met and The Louvre haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.