An exhibition at the Walters Art Musuem traces the appearences of cats in medieval manuscripts, from Europe, Asia, and the ...

The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World, features over 200 works from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond. Credit: Courtesy photo A new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will ...

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 ...

The new special exhibition at Detroit Institute of Arts has a surprising and unusual side effect for an art display: It will make you hungry. Seriously … plan for a good meal after you see it. "The ...

Calligraphic standard in the shape of a falcon (Golconda, India, 17th-century), perforated gilt copper (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London) Although it has manifested in ways that are manifold, the ...

Nude painting flourished among Arab artists in the 20th century during a period of cultural renaissance. Now these rarely seen works are on view at the Wallach Art Gallery. By Sara Aridi The subject ...

"In a rich ethnographic narrative, cultural anthropologist Kenneth George introduces one of the leading figures in the world of Asian art, Indonesian painter Abdul Djalil Pirous, and his pioneering ...

This complicated legacy, alongside the exploration of Queer identities throughout Islamic art history, has received little ...

“It’s a food-oriented culture,” says Linda Komaroff, LACMA’s curator and department head for art of the Middle East and a specialist in Islamic work, who organized the show, which runs from December ...

Explore the tradition of figurative art at the heart of Islam with host Rageh Omaar. Muslim belief and tradition specifies that there should be no depictions of God or the Prophet Muhammad. In ...

The Frick Pittsburgh, which postponed an exhibition featuring 10 centuries of Islamic art after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, apologized for the offense its leader’s explanation caused. By ...

"In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the ...