Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it ... And when studying the fresco, Gigante noticed that it depicts the corner of a veil, painted as if drawn in ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Sept. 22, the DIA will open The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World, featuring over 200 works from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond. The exhibit combines a multi-sensory ...

A piece at the entrance to “Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World” encapsulates this recently revamped floor of the Walters Art Museum: A Chinese porcelain vessel dating to about ...

“So much of Islamic art is related to the sourcing, preparation, serving and consumption of food,” notes Linda Komaroff, curator of “Dining with the Sultan,” a new exhibition at the Los ...

“It’s difficult to imagine anything more sacred to Muslims than the Kiswah that dresses the House of God,” says the Islamic art scholar Julian Raby, who returned as one of the artistic ...

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 ...

To accommodate its expansive collection of acquisitions, in addition to more than 1,000 of works on long-term loan, MFAH will open a new, permanent home for Islamic art. Beginning March 5 ...

Emine Fetvaci, a prominent scholar and accomplished teacher whose research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid art and architecture, has been ...

When the I. M. Pei–designed Museum of Islamic Art first opened in 2008, just months before Pei’s 92nd birthday, it was the first major project in Qatar to set architecture-loving hearts aflutter.

The festival began in 2014 when four Houstonians with a shared interest in Islamic art organized a small exhibition at a mosque in Spring, Texas. The group, which included an architect ...