Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead to the creation of ...

Moawiya is the founder of the Umayyad Caliphate or the Umayyad Empire which ruled from 661 to 750 with its borders stretching from Central Asia in the East and North Africa in the west.

The gallery’s ever-changing collection includes a range of periods and subject matter, including paintings by the French and American Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, Hudson River School, marine ...

Days after US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was condemned for her ‘Islamist caliphate’ remarks, the United States was asked to clarify on it but it pointed to Bangladesh on ...

The intrigue around artist couples spans generations. A 1933 article about Frida Kahlo, which resurfaced a few years ago, was met with a collective eye roll: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter ...

Immigration attorneys say a gay Venezuelan makeup artist seeking asylum in the U.S. was wrongly identified as a gang member and deported to El Salvador—a case becoming a flashpoint in the debate ...

At the Umayyad Mosque, the rituals were age-old ... the faces of former presidents Bashar and Hafez Assad are partly cut off from a painting; in their place, “The Freedom” is scribbled ...

By Julia Jacobs Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.” ...

The TV series Mo'aweyah, centered around the life of Muawiya, who is considered the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty ... He was promoted during the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab and ...