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Located in the southern sliver of Islamic Cairo, the Museum of Islamic Art boasts a stunning collection of art from every era ...
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 ...
When the I. M. Pei–designed Museum of Islamic Art first opened in 2008, just months before Pei’s 92nd birthday, it was the first major project in Qatar to set architecture-loving hearts aflutter.
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?
The community is invited to celebrate the start of summer with Night//Shift: Summer Rising, a free evening of art, music and ...
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 ...
The roof garden stays open into the evening on Friday and Saturday. – Jessica Colley Clarke No museum in the ... Roman and Egyptian art, and the second floor's Islamic art exhibits are ...
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...
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 ...
(Emma Lee/WHYY) The Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia’s Old City is exhibiting artist interpretations of a traditional Islamic architectural element: the mashrabiya. A mashrabiya is a screen, ...
The Israeli museum that owns the famous creation by Breguet ... By David Belcher The Art for Tomorrow conference in Venice provides an opportunity for the Middle East at large to change how ...