Today marks the birthday anniversary of prominent Iranian painter and educator Mahmoud Farshchian who is a master of Persian ...

"I draw deep inspiration from the narrative elements of Persian miniature painting. This quality inspires me to use metaphor ...

On Monday, a cultural and commercial delegation from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan toured the Fusion Art Handicraft House in Tehran.

As an art form, the Persian miniature is grounded in a relationship between text and image in which paintings refer to poetic verses, stories from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), important battles, ...

The name is a sly clue indicating his multi-faceted goal of deploying a "state of the art" missile defense covering the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.

In the art world, Shahzia Sikander is a rock star. She’s been revitalizing traditional South Asian art for a generation, ...

An exquisite miniature portrait by Italian painter Lavinia Fontana was serendipitously rediscovered after turning up at an auction in Texas.

Their reputation was well deserved, for the study and practice of medicine was then led by Muslim societies across their immense territory, which extended from modern-day southern Spain to Iran.

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained last month in Iran while on a reporting trip ... Lives lived: Perry, the miniature donkey who was the model for Donkey in the “Shrek ...

Also influenced by Surrealism is Wassily Kandinsky’s Pointillé (estimate: $250,000 – 350,000). The Russian painter and art ...

February film highlights include the Jewish & Israeli Film Festival, Oscar nominated shorts and foreign features, and a David ...

Indore, Madhya Pradesh is culture history and all thing bang up city. There are plenty of beautiful locations from where one ...