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From the moment you look at his paintings, you’re drawn in. You see the thick lines of carved doors, the curved patterns on windows, the ...
She felt she already had a lot in common with her aunt, a professional curator of Islamic art and architecture. "I didn't want to be like anyone else," says Suleman. "I just wanted to do my own thing.
Located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, the nation’s most populous city is a layer cake of soaring mosques, art deco cinemas and technicolour murals.
The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale is on view at the iconic Western Hajj Terminal's canopies at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah until May 25.
We are at the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, called And All That Is In Between, which opened on January 25 and will remain on display for the public in Jeddah until May 25.
This entwining of the past and present seeks to provoke some of the same questions that are guiding artists, art historians and curators as they re-examine Islamic art’s place in the world.
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf".
Everything is underlain with a geometric structure that belies the apparent chaos of the ornamentation; all of these elements are hallmarks of Islamic art and architecture.