Art galleries are generally quiet, hushed spaces, but at the Los Angeles County Museum a show called Islamic Art Now is sparking some heated discussions as visitors ponder the photographs, paintings ...

Yesterday (28 October) at Christie's in London, the work sold for £10.2m, or $13.6m (with fees), becoming the most expensive ...

A new organisation aimed at promoting Islamic arts and heritage has launched at the House of Lords in Westminster. More than ...

Considered one of the earliest natural history studies in Mughal art, the painting is a study of cheetahs in the wild in India ...

Harout Bastajian has built a career painting calligraphic and geometric designs for the domes of mosques around the world. The results are stunning. The Mohammad al-Amin Mosque, also referred to as ...

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 work, attributed to the Mughal court artist Basawan, went for 14 times its low estimate.

The painting that appears to be at the center of the controversy (from Rashid al-Din Ṭabib, Jami' al-Tawarikh, in the University of Edinburgh Library) Michigan art history Prof. Christiane Gruber ...

This single-volume Qur’an from Istanbul was included in a 2004 exhibition of Islamic art at the Frick Art and Historical Center. (image via Wikimedia Commons) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely ...

The traditional wood screens made in ornately geometric patterns for Islamic palaces and mosques are given the modern art treatment. Anila Quayyum Agha's "Charred Gold," is a mashrabiya made of ...

In a controversial move, an adjunct professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has lost her job after showing her class Medieval paintings depicting the Prophet Muhammad, founder of the ...