To celebrate Ramadan, local studio Faum Architecture and artist Zarah Hussain have created the vibrant pink Infinite Light ...

People will be able to see the Kiswa - the cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca. The exhibition will ... of the most sacred objects in Islamic art, ritual, and worship.

which in turn was inspired by Ottoman, byzantine and architecture in Spain. "The crossover between Islamic ideas and art and the UK has been going on for hundreds of years. We wanted to bring that ...

Scholars believe this dinar may have been minted to commemorate a pilgrimage led by the Umayyad Caliph to Mecca ... later carried on by the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. One of the most ...

Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead to the creation of ...

Professor of art history Kathryn Moore organized a virtual conference on Webex about the sacred art and spaces of Jerusalem featuring scholars and art historians Heba Mostafa, Megan Boomer and ...

At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was made hundreds of years ago. From afar, her embroideries and paintings could ...

For artist Sougwen Chung, AI is an opportunity to embrace uncertainty. Many artists worry about the encroachment of artificial intelligence on artistic creation. But Sougwen Chung, a nonbinary ...

At the heart of every conflict lies a simple but profound question: where do we stand on the issue of justice? Without justice, peace is but an illusion—a fragile ceasefire that crumbles under ...