Years ago, staff at a Pittsburgh art museum booked an exhibition that would showcase Islamic art across 10 centuries, with plans for a November 2023 opening. Titled “Treasured Ornament,” the ...

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?

A piece at the entrance to “Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World” encapsulates this recently revamped floor of the Walters Art Museum: A Chinese porcelain vessel dating to about ...

One of the most important museums in the Middle East, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA ... as part of a mass public art programme. The state is also moving ahead with plans to build three new ...

The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College explores sources of wonder in the upcoming exhibition Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World. Organized in collaboration ...

Qatar unveiled on Tuesday its landmark Museum of Islamic Art after an 18-month renovation ahead of the World Cup in a bid to be a "showcase" for the Arab world. "We are the biggest Museum of ...

These plans, however, never came to fruition ... architectural gestures that have followed in its wake, the Museum of Islamic Art remains perhaps the sole example that has achieved the rare ...

(Christopher Arnott/Hartford Courant) The items in the “Divine Geometry” exhibition come from the Wadsworth’s collection of Islamic art, which the museum has been gathering for 120 years.