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 ...

Installation view of “A Seat at the Table: Food & Feasting in the Islamic World,” Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, 2025. (Courtesy of Qatar Museums) Structured into five thematic sections, the exhibition ...

“Divine Geometry: Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum” would seem to suggest artwork that is precise, exacting, preordained and orderly. This is true enough. But what is most notable about the ...

Translation of: Arte islamica : architettura, pittura, calligrafia, ceramica, vetri, tappeti. Milano : Mondadori arte, 2009. Basic Principles -- The interpretation of Islamic art -- The forms of ...

Last month, Paris's Louvre museum opened its new Islamic Art Wing amidst uproar over the series of controversial Mohammed cartoons that were published in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to the ...

News coverage is dominated by the aftermath of the “Innocence of Muslims” film, the French satirical cartoons and just this week, Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy’s arrest for vandalizing ...

In a move that adds significantly to its diversity and stature, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has landed a renowned collection of Islamic art that it has been seeking for several years. The ...

In northwest Saudi Arabia, the artistic heritage of the AlUla oasis is literally carved into the landscape. From the enigmatic rock art of the Neolithic era, through the colossal statues of the ...

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 ...