Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta allegedly spent nearly 30 years wandering some 75,000 miles across Africa, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia.
"Il n'y a en art, ni passé, ni futur. L'art qui n'est pas dans le présent ne sera jamais." (Pablo Picasso)
Originally presented at the Dismal Fogs Eastern Collegia, March 6, 1999. Subsequently published in Cockatrice
Today, I learned there's a subreddit called "Today I Learned" (TIL). Just kidding, I'm not that far behind on Internet culture. In fact, I've already written about it here, here, and here. I just liked the way that sentence sounded.
Open Data of The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
14th century
These images come form an egyptian manuscript from the 14th/15th centuries. It reproduces a persian a...
14th century
Flattened-shaped jars like this one started to appear around the late 13th century. Each of the flattened sides is decorated with an image of a lotus flower pond, enclosed in a lobed panel. The
These images come form an egyptian manuscript from the 14th/15th centuries. It reproduces a persian a...
Let’s have a chat about belonging, cultural identity, migration and finding a home wherever you are, for all those who are relocating or thinking to, for all those dreaming to live abroad but too scared to take the final step, to ease up all the contrasting feelings that moving house and country can
Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslim populations. Referring to characteristic traditions across a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, Islamic art is a conce
These images come form an egyptian manuscript from the 14th/15th centuries. It reproduces a persian a...
Lot 56. An important Iznik pottery water bottle (surahi) Turkey, circa 1575. Estimate: £100,000-200,000 . Sold. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON .- A rare and important 16th century Iznik pottery water bottle known as a surahi is to be offered at Bonhams Islamic...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The excitement of Asia Week New York, with its multitude of lectures, exhibitions and other special events, has attracted knowledgeable buyers from the Far East to Manhattan…
The Eleventh Arhat (luohan), Rāhula (Luohuluo), Reciting a Sūtra
