“Divine Geometry: Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum” would seem to suggest artwork that is precise, exacting, preordained and orderly. This is true enough. But what is most notable about ...

The richness of Islamic art entranced Louis and Jacques Cartier, two of the founder’s grandsons, who weaved references to it throughout jewellery and artefacts from the 1920s onwards. It is an ...