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This is an introduction to NPR's Muslim Artists, Now series, which will highlight contemporary Muslim musicians, writers, painters and filmmakers, among others. When the Islamic galleries of New ...

DETROIT — In the heart of the largest concentration of Muslims in the U.S., the Detroit Institute of Arts recently opened a new permanent gallery of Islamic art showcasing exhibits including a rare ...

You don’t need to be an expert in Islamic art to know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new $50 million Islamic galleries are great. Really great! Terrifically impressive. They’re infused with ...

One of the world’s most important private collections of Islamic art now has a purpose-built gallery at the Dallas Museum of Art. The Keir Collection of Islamic Art is on a long-term loan to the DMA, ...

DR. SHEILA CANBY (Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Islamic Art): Overall, the collection has twelve thousand objects; and we are showing twelve hundred. There are motifs that you ...

Intricately patterned Persian carpets are renowned the world over, with the Safavid period considered one of the high points of the art form. But because relatively fewer have survived, other textiles ...

Inside the more than 6,000 square feet of new permanent gallery space at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston dedicated to Art of the Islamic Worlds. For more than a decade, the Museum of Fine Arts, ...

It has been almost a year since the only Islamic art gallery of a major museum in Chicago, Gallery 50 of the Art Institute, was closed. While the Art Institute is frequently in the news — the ...

DETROIT — In the heart of the largest concentration of Muslims in the U.S., the Detroit Institute of Arts this weekend is opening a new permanent gallery of Islamic art showcasing exhibits, including ...

When the Detroit Institute of Arts hired curator Heather Ecker to head its department for Asia and the Islamic world, the museum had only about 30 pieces of Islamic art on display. Now, after more ...