Without claiming Márquez's storytelling magic, I am borrowing his evocative title to reflect on a different kind of endurance ...

But again, while such patterns reached their peak through Islamic art, they were originally adapted from the classical traditions of Greece, Rome, and Sasanian Iran. Building on these traditions ...

Following a successful opening at the 18th Al Burda Award ceremony, hosted at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in December 2024, As the ...

My art in this exhibit is going to be mostly paintings and mixed media. I'm going to be adding a contemporary touch to the classical Islamic art forms. Most Muslim artists will create a simple ...

Siegfried Zielinski Enfoldment and Infinity establishes points of contact between classical Islamic art and contemporary computer-based art. For example, both are often aniconic, both are performative ...

Calligraphy is associated with geometric Islamic art on the walls and ceilings of ... Calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of classical calligraphy and modern calligraphy.

Speaking about why geometry and calligraphy are so central to classical Islamic art, she says: “I think it’s the only way to represent sophisticated ideas. If you look at Picasso, Matisse ...

The objects of art range from the finest examples of classical Islamic manuscripts to glass objects and rare carpets. Most of these artifacts are drawn from the Met's previous stores of Islamic ...

Some traditional Islamic calligraphers have concerns about the freewheeling expression in some of the new art. Nihad Dukhan ... viewers confuse it with the classical form.

Opening this weekend in the neo-classical, 19th Century Visconti courtyard of the Louvre, the new Department of Islamic Art has a undulating glass and metal roof, resembling a floating carpet ...