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How to Explore Islamic Art in Cleveland’s Open Collection
A close-looking guide to a Qur’an folio and luster ceramics, using Cleveland’s public collection records.
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What to Look for in Dallas’s Keir Collection
Explore rock crystal, metalwork, manuscripts, and textiles through the Dallas Museum of Art’s Keir Collection records.
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Dar al-Islam and the adobe architecture of Abiquiu
Hassan Fathy’s New Mexico mosque connects Muslim community-building, earthen construction, and a changing vision for life in the American Southwest.
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How to Look at Islamic Geometric Patterns in a Museum
Learn to follow repetition, symmetry, borders, and materials without reducing every pattern to a single meaning.
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How the Freer Gallery Helped Shape Islamic Art Scholarship in America
Charles Lang Freer, the museum's 1923 opening, and the journals that helped establish Islamic art scholarship in the United States.
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How Islamic art became part of the Metropolitan Museum
How carpet exhibitions, collectors' gifts, manuscript acquisitions, and changing gallery installations shaped the Met's Islamic collection.
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Houston’s 2026 Islamic Arts Festival: A Visitor’s Guide
Plan for the November 21–22, 2026 festival at the Ismaili Center, with art, demonstrations, workshops, and performances.
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A Focused Visit to Houston’s Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries
Explore the MFAH through book arts, blue-and-white ceramics, and the movement of materials and designs.
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Houston’s Islamic Arts Society turns making into public culture
A Houston arts organization connects living artists, museum collections, and hands-on learning through documented community partnerships.
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Writing, Color, and Architecture in LACMA’s Islamic Collection
Compare a Kashan tile panel and Ottoman calligraphy to see how words occupy different materials and spaces.
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A First Visit to Islamic Art at The Met
A first-visit route through the Damascus Room, Moroccan court, and Garden Gathering, with admission and accessible-entry information.
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Islamic Art and Muslim Community Stories at Newark’s Museum
Connect Newark’s collection history with locally produced film and community memory through documented museum programs.
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Shahzia Sikander brings manuscript painting into American contemporary art
An artist’s route from Lahore to Rhode Island and New York connects detailed painting, animation, and questions about who belongs in American art.
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Planning a Thoughtful Visit to Shangri La in Honolulu
Understand Shangri La as a collection, architectural setting, and contemporary cultural program before booking a visit.
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A First Visit to Islamic Art at the Smithsonian
Explore manuscript painting, a Samanid bowl, and object histories at Washington's National Museum of Asian Art, with practical planning links.
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Explore Islamic Manuscripts Through the Walters Collection
Compare two digitized Qur’an manuscripts in Baltimore and learn to read bindings, margins, script, and catalog records.
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Finding Islamic Art Through Worcester’s Asian Galleries
Use Worcester’s documented gallery refresh to explore an Iranian tile, book painting, and connections across Asian art.
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How Muslims have shaped American art, architecture, and design
Explore five connected stories: an adobe mosque, contemporary animation, a Houston arts society, wall art, and a California scarf brand.