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Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features ...
How Islamic art history has been constrained by colonialism, war, and Western epistemologies; and how it calls for a fundamental rethinking of the field.
Sara Rehman, the first-ever executive director of Houston's Islamic Arts Society, and calligraphy artist Sana Mirza discuss ...
More widely, Islamic tradition has discouraged the figurative depiction of living creatures, especially human beings. Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative. Shia Islamic ...
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Britain’s solicitor general sued Tommy Robinson over remarks in online interviews and the film ‘Silenced,’ which was seen millions of times. Tommy Robinson, the British anti-Islam activist ...
which explores the artist's sexuality and early love interests, has been curated by a grandfather and grandson duo who are passing art dealership down through the generations. Kasmin, 90 ...
More than 500 early Islamic objects are displayed across the 70,000 ... Yet, as Assistant Minister of Culture Rakan Altouq admitted during his opening speech, ‘Islamic art has been at risk of ...
My research focuses on the art and architecture of the Islamic world, in particular Spain, north Africa and the medieval Mediterranean. I published a book on the long history of the Alhambra palace ...