We may earn a commission from links on this page. Islamic­ influenced art and imagery has cropped up in games from Journey to Prince of Persia, but now a couple of game developers are out to prove ...
This is an introduction to NPR's Muslim Artists, Now series, which will highlight contemporary Muslim musicians, writers, painters and filmmakers, among others. When the Islamic galleries of New ...
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 ...
Islamic Art Museum in the Bab Al-Khalq area in the heart of Historic Cairo is considered the largest Islamic art museum in the world; where the museum houses more than 100,000 diverse artifacts of ...
The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and the National Museum of Korea (NMK) are presenting the ‘Islamic Art: A Journey of Splendour’, which opened Saturday in Seoul, South Korea. The landmark collaboration ...
An exhibition of impressive Islamic art in Seoul features intricate early manuscripts of the Quran to lavish royal carpets, ceramics and delicate jade crafts. The National Museum of Korea on Nov. 22 ...
A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...
The most expensive of work of Islamic art ever sold was a carpet. At around nine feet long, it was made for the throne dais of the Shah of Iran in the early 17th century. At Sotheby’s in New York in ...
Yakutiye Madrasa, Erzurum. Central muqarnas, Islamic ornamental three-dimensional architectural decoration, embellishing a church ceiling, 1310. Credit: Richard Piran McClary Coptic capital with ...
A new exhibition opening at the National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet) of Norway in Oslo this week breaks new ground by exploring a challenging art historical subject: queer desires and practices in the ...