When I asked my students why should we care about Islamic art, baffled by the question in an art history course, they answered “because they are objects of art that carry beauty.” Yet, as we well know ...

In the previous installment of this series, you learned about the different Muslim sects and the interesting ways they mix in the United States. This article will take you through the historical ...

What is culture? In today’s globalized world, we are familiar with seeing various cultural objects and ornamentation outside of their original location or context. If culture is not fixed and bound to ...

“Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity” is not just about the influence on the storied French luxury maison’s jewelry. It’s also the tale of the house itself, the family behind it, and the ...

Yakutiye Madrasa, Erzurum. Central muqarnas, Islamic ornamental three-dimensional architectural decoration, embellishing a church ceiling, 1310. Credit: Richard Piran McClary Coptic capital with ...

Director of the National Museum of Korea You Hong-june highlighted the designs on windows and Islamic ceramics. “In addition to seeing the artifacts, the latticework and calligraphic designs offer a ...

This week, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its Keir Collection Gallery, and in doing so it’s exhibiting more than the third largest collection of Islamic art in North America: It’s also exhibiting a ...

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will be the sole North American venue for an exhibition titled, “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity,” which will open May 14 and run through September 18.

Doctoral Candidate (Oriental Studies - Islamic Art and Archaeology), University of Oxford; Curatorial Researcher, Nicholson Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney In 2005, the Art ...

Brooch, 1935. Platinum, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds. Can one trip change jewelry history? It might have for the Cartier brothers. In 1911 Jacques, the youngest, set off to India to witness ...

Ceramic vessels originating in the Islamic world once adorned the facades of churches and other Christian monuments, while Christian symbols such as the cross embellished columns, slabs, and other ...