Source: The Guardian BY Jim Waterson A leading contemporary art gallery covered up works featuring an Islamic declaration of faith after complaints from Muslim visitors who said the artworks were […]
in Archives, Art, Books, Literature, Poetry, Religion | April 5th, 2019 Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to […]
BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | February 05, 2019 “Caucasian dragon carpet from the 16th century” (© National Museums in Berlin, Museum of Islamic Art / Teßmer) Pergamonmuseum reopens its […]
Source: The National By Venetia Porter The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World brings a rich culture to life through everyday objects started working at the British Museum […]
Source: Time By CASEY QUACKENBUSH October 26, 2018 An artwork made by an artificial intelligence program sold at a Christie’s auction for $432,500, nearly 45 times its high estimate. Portrait of Edmond Belamy, a […]
Source: BBC News By Alastair Sooke 19 July 2018 Most people coming face to face for the first time with Dutch artist Maerten van Heemskerck’s 16th-Century oil painting of the […]
BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | April 12, 2018 View Slideshow “Amendment” – note that this qur’an section comprises 11 complete and 2 partial suras beginning from Verse 18 until the end […]
Courtesy Um Fuad CREATIVITY AND IDENTITY: The second annual American-Muslim Art Exhibit took place on March 31, put on by the Council for American-Islam Relations—Missouri. Mary Adcock, Staff Writer April […]
Babur Gardens, the original setting where a lot of Mughal art originated. (Wikimedia Commons) “King Babur’s Kabul: Cradle of the Mughal Empire” displays a selection of high quality reproductions […]
https://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:44020262&locale=en Embed code This content was published on April 6, 2018 On its 1,250th anniversary, the Court Church of St. Leodegar in Lucerne is opening up its treasure trove […]
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL PublishedMarch 31, 2018 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attends opening ceremony of Yeditepe Biennial at the Byzantine-era monument of Hagia Sophia, known as Ayasofya which is […]
ELIZABETH MACBRIDE | Published — Friday 23 March 2018 Hend Al-Mansour came to the US 21 years ago as a physician, then gave up medicine for art. Her work […]
The painting dates back to the 18th century and depicts a majestic scene of Mecca. (Sotheby’s) Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Sunday, 29 October 2017 The Sotheby’s auction on November […]
Reuters International JUN 13, 2017 A security guard poses for a portrait in front of his favourite decorated truck at a truck stop outside Faisalabad, Pakistan, May 3, 2017. […]
The ‘Al Zaher’ house has an important place in Lebanon’s history, but its current proprietors have tried to stop portraits of some of its prolific political visitors being hung there Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices When British artist Tom Young was invited to exhibit his paintings of Beirut at the former […]
Exhibition on View April 7 Through Aug. 27 January 25, 2017 “Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection” at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will feature more than 100 extraordinary examples of luxury cigarette and vanity cases, compacts, clocks and other […]
Source: Times of Israel This Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016 photo shows the moment workers remove the top marble layer of the tomb said to be of Jesus, in the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries […]
The hip-hop group “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic“ was conceived of by dancer Amirah Sackett in 2011, a moment Sackett referred to as “a really tumultuous time in history as far as Islam is concerned.” Just seven years earlier, France banned students from wearing hijab to school, the headscarves that in Islamic […]
Source: Aljazeera By Ted Regencia Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, the first female winner of the top Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 65. Hadid died after suffering […]