The 'Exploring the Sacred Arts of Islam' festival takes place at The Chalice Well Gardens in Glastonbury (Somerset, UK) from June 6-10, 2015 and offers an experience of Islam through the beauty of its arts.
Jun 09, 2015Necmettin Erbakan University's summer course 'Art Treasures of Konya: Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture' (July 21- August 15, 2015) provides the occasion to undergraduate and graduate students as well as interested aficionados of Islamic art to explore in depth some of the city's dozens of medieval monuments, most notably, but not exclusively, from the Anatolian Seljuk period (1077-1308).
Jun 08, 2015Sabrina Amrani Gallery presents 'Reforma', the second solo exhibition of Panamanian artist Jhafis Quintero at the gallery, showcasing a new body of work across installation and video, drawing further on his experience of 10-year-long imprisonment in a Costa Rican jail, where Quintero at first became both artist and creative subject.
Jun 05, 2015Thirty-nine contemporary artists – most of them Palestinian, Native American, and Irish – explore the profound specific and unusual intersections between the three cultures with original paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, artist books, and films. They consider such topics as conflict, resistance, land, food, diaspora, identity, and persistence.
Jun 02, 2015Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival asks artists and filmmakers to submit films that investigate the grey areas between fact and fantasy, documentary and narrative, journalism and propaganda.
May 31, 2015In Islamic culture, geometric design is everywhere: you can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces, and private homes. And despite the remarkable complexity of these designs, they can be created with just a compass to draw circles and a ruler to make lines within them. Eric Broug covers the basics of geometric Islamic design.
May 26, 2015'Caught in the Game' creates a dialogue in space between two female artists Neda Zarfsaz and Golnar Adili and their interpretation of vast Iranian culture using different mediums, approaches and understandings. The exhibition at Mottahedan Projects Gallery in Dubai opened on May 12 and will run until May 31, 2015.
May 21, 2015The Dubai International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition was one of the main highlights of the second Dubai Art Season. We bring you photos from the Exhibition - Part II.
May 17, 2015The Dubai International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition was one of the main highlights of the second Dubai Art Season. We bring you photos from the Exhibition - Part I.
May 15, 2015The solo exhibition 'Painting from the Sixties and Seventies' of pioneering Palestinian artist Samia Halaby will open at the Ayyam Gallery in London on May 18 and will run until July 18, 2015
May 12, 2015The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) will launch a photo gallery in the SM Aura Premier shopping mall in the Filipino capital, Manila, showcasing winners and finalists from the 4th season of competition ‘Life in Colour’.
May 12, 2015Project initiated by artist Chritoph Büchel in collaboration with the Muslim Communities of Venice and Iceland.
May 08, 2015
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