Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...
The exhibit, running through April 13, explores the Wadsworth’s Islamic arts collection and features geometric patterns and ...
This philosophical approach shapes the entire exhibition, which presents over 170 objects that showcase the intersection of Islamic art, science ... boundaries while remaining grounded in ...
This connection has been studied for some time, with notable exhibitions such as Beyond Orientalism: How The West Was Won Over By Islamic Art in 2008 ... who knew the old ‘Orient’ best.
As a result of the prohibition of such depictions in most Sunni Muslim schools of thought, geometric patterns came to be widely prevalent in Islamic art ... a 31-year-old architect from Mecca.
Art critic Alastair Sooke travels to Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, an iconic building designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei. He meets the museum director to find out about the complexities ...