A new exhibition of Islamic art and photography has gone on show in the historic Durbar Court at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The exhibition featured contemporary art and photography by British Muslim artists. Visitors to the Islamic art exhibition saw work by some of the UK’s leading Muslim artists. The show’s organiser said Ramadan…
On September 8 police in The Hague found a doll depicting Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders hanging from a tree near the central station. The doll had a picture of Wilders affixed to it with a knife, and smeared with a substance intended to look like blood. Police arrested four individuals aged 18-19, students…
A young Paris-based guerilla street artist who calls herself Princess Hijab has been “hijabizing” advertisements, spray-painting veils and body-length chadors onto the lightly dressed models. The mysterious artist, who remains anonymous, says she is fighting Jihad through art. In the online gallery of her “hijabizing” of ad campaigns, lightly clad models in ads for Virgin…
The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have opened an Islamic trail to reach out to the city’s Muslim communities. The trail explores works of Muslim culture at the museum, treating the history of Islamic art as well as Muslim migration to the UK, using textiles, metal works, ceramics and paintings. The project is a collaboration…
A festival bringing knowledge, art, and understanding about the Arab world will take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts from February 23-March 15th, and is being cited as a groundbreaking event in the United States. The festival, titled “Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World” is the first event of its size…
