What is culture? In today’s globalized world, we are familiar with seeing various cultural objects and ornamentation outside of their original location or context. If culture is not fixed and bound to ...

Islamic art — not often seen in museums and galleries in this country — is the focus of an exhibition designed to enhance understanding among different cultures and to showcase deserving talent and ...

At the Grey Gallery, it’s as if you’re inhabiting the artist’s own brush as it hesitates between writing and drawing. By Will Heinrich There’s something thrilling about the extreme flexibility of the ...

Wooden mihrab from the shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya, Cairo, Egypt (1133): “Made by the order of the wife of the reigning Fatimid caliph, the mihrab is decorated on all sides, suggesting that it was ...

The largest Islamic arts festival in America returns to the University of Houston for its 12th year, featuring more than 5,000 works by over 50 artists from across the country. The two-day event ...

At the Shangri La museum in Honolulu, curators are redefining their vision of the genre and reaching out to new visitors (and visiting artists). By Susanne Fowler HONOLULU — Laura Berry, a Lithuanian ...

This course examines the visual cultures of the Islamic world from 600 to present. It addresses various topics in the historiographic narratives and pedagogies of the field in a global context and ...

The fifth Arabic Arts Festival opened on December 19 in Jingdezhen, east China’s Jiangxi Province saw in-depth cultural exchanges between China and Arab countries. The Arabic Arts Festival is an ...

This course addresses the history and methodology of Islamic art and architecture from approximately 600 to 1800. The chronology will be examined through the themes that distinguish this culture-such ...