Sara Rehman, the first-ever executive director of Houston's Islamic Arts Society, and calligraphy artist Sana Mirza discuss ...

attracting thousands of visitors and featuring art on canvas, paper, wood, glass and ceramic tiles. Shaheen Rahman, president of the Islamic Arts Society, said moving the festival to the ...

The study of Islamic glazed ceramics and pottery technology reveals a rich tradition of material innovation and cultural exchange spanning from the early Islamic period to the later medieval era.

Beginning March 5, Art of the Islamic Worlds Hossein Afshar Galleries will house paintings, ceramics, metal ware, silk fabrics and carpets. Nearly 6,000 square feet of space inside the Caroline ...

The idea of establishing the Museum of Islamic Ceramics came to display a group of masterpieces of ceramics that have been made Islamic architecture style. The Egyptian civilization is the oldest ...

Some moon-faced horsemen adorning the ceramics have a decidedly Chinese cast, a legacy of Buddhist art that early travelers imported into Iran. “We may think of the Islamic world as isolated ...

Islamic art is a global art, and is incredibly diverse over one and a half millennia.” Opening the section is a tile from 17th-century Iznik, a major Ottoman ceramics center, that diagrams the ...

Ottoman ceramics influenced everyone from William ... Wijdan Ali declared in a 1992 article entitled The Status of Islamic Art in the Twentieth Century. Soon "Western aesthetics overpowered ...

The Qajar Ceramics – Bridging Tradition And Modernity exhibition at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM) in Kuala Lumpur is not your average pottery show. Qajar Ceramics, which runs till Dec ...

In some art from the Islamic world, you will find repeating patterns of flowers and plants. These patterns can be seen on everything from rugs and pottery to decoration in books. Islamic art has ...