BERKELEY — Given her family history, Salma Arastu may be one of the last people you’d expect to be helping to modernize Islamic calligraphy. Her Hindu parents fled their home in Pakistan ...

the painting has a marked blind spot. The canvas is populated entirely by men – with no reference to the achievements of the ...

The new documentary from Sara Nodjoumi, “A Revolution on Canvas,” poses some provocative ... Mr. Nodjoumi took part in the Islamic Revolution, crafting posters and paintings critical of the Shah’s ...

The unifying theme is how the artists have taken Arabic script and adapted it to their own needs on canvas and on the ... knowing little about the art scene in cities like Tehran or Cairo this is a ...

When the artist Nickzad Nodjoumi decided to flee Iran in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution ... Nickzad says in the new HBO documentary A Revolution on Canvas. “At 12 o’clock, Saddam ...

NEW YORK -- New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has unveiled its new wing of Islamic works in a major effort to increase Americans' understanding of Islamic culture. The new wing, which opened ...

He smiled all the way through a speech last month at the opening of the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto ... and academic center for the study of Islamic art. Presenting a positive understanding ...

Midway through “A Revolution on Canvas,” one ... and from his protest paintings puts their quest, and anyone who helps them in it, in danger. Nicky Nodjoumi moved to New York in the 1960s ...