CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western ...

Vol. 1. Byzantine and post-Byzantine art. The Byzantine mosaics of Jordan in context : remarks on imagery, donors and mosaicists ; Comnenian aristocratic palace decoration : descriptions and Islamic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of ...

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 ...

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will be the sole North American venue for an exhibition titled, “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity,” which will open May 14 and run through September 18.

General introduction to major themes in the cultural, intellectual, and institutional history of China and Japan, with some attention to Korea and Southeast Asia. Two lectures, one preceptorial. This ...