When Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosted the Iranian Film Festival in 2006, patron Sima Ladjevardian posed a question to MFAH's then-director Peter Marzio: "What kind of Iranian art do you have?'" she ...

You don’t need to be an expert in Islamic art to know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new $50 million Islamic galleries are great. Really great! Terrifically impressive. They’re infused with ...

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 ...

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar in November 2022, the museum has been given a makeover. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar this November, the Museum of ...

Intricately patterned Persian carpets are renowned the world over, with the Safavid period considered one of the high points of the art form. But because relatively fewer have survived, other textiles ...

Inside the more than 6,000 square feet of new permanent gallery space at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston dedicated to Art of the Islamic Worlds. For more than a decade, the Museum of Fine Arts, ...

A seasoned Islamic artist, Ridwan Osinowo, recently captivated Muslim art enthusiasts and the public with a one-day salon Islamic art show themed Alhamdulullah at Radisson Hotel, GRA, Ikeja. The ...

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 ...

IT IS a striking object. The lyre (pictured below), dating from the 19th century, was used in Sudanese Zar ceremonies, in which individuals thought to be possessed by spirits (jinn) were exorcised.

Saliha Hanif and Asma Mehmood are artists of Pakistani origin, based in Dubai, represented by OneFourArt Gallery, a Dubai-based contemporary Islamic art gallery founded by the artists themselves.