In the previous installment of this series, you learned about the different Muslim sects and the interesting ways they mix in the United States. This article will take you through the historical ...

I have a hard time getting excited by pottery and textiles. I can respect the craftsmanship and work that goes into sculpting them and weaving together their intricate patterns, but it just doesn’t ...

This month, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will unveil a new show of over 100 Iranian artworks dating from the 6th to the 19th century. The exhibition, titled “Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces From ...

South Korea has officially opened its first permanent Islamic art gallery, marking a major milestone in cultural exchange and appreciation. The newly inaugurated Islamic Art Gallery at the National ...

ISTANBUL — Iraqi calligrapher Ali Zaman gazes with pride at his masterpiece — a colossal, handwritten manuscript of the Quran that has taken six years of craft and devotion to complete.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., currently hosts Divine Geometry, an exhibition exploring arts in the historical and contemporary Islamic world through paintings, calligraphy, ...

When I asked my students why should we care about Islamic art, baffled by the question in an art history course, they answered “because they are objects of art that carry beauty.” Yet, as we well know ...

Islamic calligraphy was developed from Arabic writing that predates Islam. Calligraphy is used as a marker of religious and intellectual cultivation, and is used to inscribe the word of God through ...

Although Islam remains unfamiliar to many Koreans, Islamic culture has a growing presence in Korean society -- of the country's roughly 2 million foreign residents, an estimated 300,000 are Muslims.

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 ...

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 ...