Muslim and Jewish groups have decried the post-ponement.

The campus incident has spurred debate around academic freedom.

The professor, Erika López Prater, has sued the school, claiming defamation.

"There is no one, monothetic Islamic culture," the professor told students.

The new space is the result of a 15-year-long initiative to boost its Islamic art holdings.

The manuscripts date as far back as the 8th century and originate from the MENA region as well as India and China.

The works in the opening show at the new Institute of Arab and Islamic Art (IAIA), generically titled "Exhibition 1," and in most cases borrowed from the artists or their galleries, owe a debt to the…

ArtPrize is changing. Touted as the contemporary art world's largest open-call, public-vote cash competition, ArtPrize is no longer a hyper-local celebration of hyper-realist art. Now in its sixth y…

With Thomas Krens as adviser and Zaha Hadid as architect, a Turkish couple prepares to launch a major new museum

Masterworks, manuscripts, mosaics, royal jewels, devotional sculpture, and blinged-out arms and armor feature in exhibitions devoted to the arts of Byzantium, Buddhism, Islam, West Africa, the…