Wooden mihrab from the shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya, Cairo, Egypt (1133): “Made by the order of the wife of the reigning Fatimid caliph, the mihrab is decorated on all sides, suggesting that it was ...

Milwaukee artist and NAdiaNA art gallery owner Nadia Alkhun has had an unusual journey on her way to the art world. Alkhun, who is from Jordan, has degrees in biotechnology and genetic engineering ...

The show, which debuted in Paris and now makes Dallas its only U.S. stop, explores how the fabled French jewelry house was inspired by and adopted forms from Islamic art, architecture and design to ...

There's plenty of art to feast your eyes on in these four very different coffee table books. Presented in reverse chronological order, we move back in time from Art is Art — a fabulous collection of ...

Jay Bonner’s new book on Islamic geometric patterns is as dense and thick (595 pages) as the thorniest of textbooks, but the hundreds of illustrations and the immersion in this topic are simply ...

IM Pei is one of the most renowned names in architecture – the mind behind Paris’s Louvre Pyramid, Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art and Washington’s National Gallery of Art. Now, for the first time, two ...

This course examines the visual cultures of the Islamic world from 600 to present. It addresses various topics in the historiographic narratives and pedagogies of the field in a global context and ...

Art in any region or era possesses diverse aspects that cannot be defined in a single phrase, but when observing Islamic art, ...

At the Shangri La museum in Honolulu, curators are redefining their vision of the genre and reaching out to new visitors (and visiting artists). By Susanne Fowler HONOLULU — Laura Berry, a Lithuanian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nadia Alkhun is the owner of NAdiaNA art gallery in Milwaukee. Her upcoming exhibit, "Islamic-Inspired," will be at the gallery ...