Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi ...

[Shane Clancy/The Daily Pennsylvanian] Interior designer Reem Hussein speaks about Islamic art, displaying examples of her artwork in the Hamilton rooftop lounge on Friday. The Muslim Students ...

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 ...

Two Chicago-area collegiate museums are using photography this season to explore how images shape cultural memory. One museum introduces local audiences to a contemporary artist from Mali, and the ...

This week, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its Keir Collection Gallery, and in doing so it’s exhibiting more than the third largest collection of Islamic art in North America: It’s also exhibiting a ...

DEARBORN, Mich. (WXYZ) — “I have 42 domes and half domes I have executed,” said artist Harout Bastajian, including the dome in the largest mosque on the North ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new exhibit “In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art” is the culmination of four years of work by LACMA’s Islamic art curator, Linda Komaroff. Assembling ...

Islamic Art Museum in the Bab Al-Khalq area in the heart of Historic Cairo is considered the largest Islamic art museum in the world; where the museum houses more than 100,000 diverse artifacts of ...

The Islamic Arts Society has become a fixture in Houston's cultural landscape through its annual Islamic Arts Festival. This year’s event will take place Nov. 15-16 at the University of Houston. With ...

A burgeoning set of Muslim creatives and intellectuals are thriving amid the backdrop of Zohran Mamdani’s rise. We ask 18 of them about this historic moment in New York City life ...