The word miniature has entered the Persian language in the middle of the recent century, and almost since the Qajar period (1789–1925). Persian miniature has made a path for the emergence of divine ...

The two-dimensional artwork involves the design and creation of small paintings on books, papier-mâché, rugs, textiles, walls, ceramics and other items using raw materials such as gold, silver and ...

Catch up on the day's news you need to know. It’s a miniature that’s probably about 5 inches by about 3 inches. It’s a hand-painted peacock on a bone-type material. So the detail the artist puts in, ...

The first major retrospective devoted to the Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz, The Garden, features works spanning 15 years of the artist’s practice—including loans from private ...

Shahzia Sikander, “Portrait of the Artist” (2016), a suite of four etchings, with accompanying collaborative text with Ayad Akhtar. Paper size: 68.5 x 53 cm; image size: 56 x 43 cm. National Portrait ...

Two contrasting works boldly set the stage for the Middle East Institute Art Gallery’s “Maximal Miniatures,” a showcase of contemporary Iranian artists inspired by Persian miniature painting. Elham ...

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts has recently declared the inscription to governors-general of all provinces across the country, CHTN reported on Tuesday. The early works of ...

A happy and energetic race of scholars are archeologists whose camping ground is the Near East. Except for rare cases like the lateT. E. Lawrence, they are generally ignored by everybody but ...

Shahzia Sikander is one of the contemporary art world's most celebrated stars. She's projecting her hypnotic video installations onto Times Square billboards; she's led exhibitions at major art ...

In an interview with the UNESCO Tashkent Office, an art historian Ms Zukhra Rakhimova explains what the art of miniature is and why it has now received international recognition. Ms Zukhra Rakhimova, ...