At "Art in Bloom" exhibitions, museums commission custom floral arrangements to go on display alongside items in their ...

Lilacs are only in flower for a few weeks a year but they have inspired great art, music and literature. Now is an excellent ...

TEHRAN--The use of Persian carpets in papal funeral proceedings may seem like a surprising choice—that is, to those unaware ...

For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, including Andrea del Verrochio, to indicate a carefully defined, sacred space ...

The use of Persian carpets in papal funeral proceedings may seem like a surprising choice—that is, to those unaware of the ...

The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely ...

Stop and smell the flowers. And while you’re at it, take a look at some flowers in the shape of famous artworks. Every year in late April, the hallways of the Minneapolis Institute of Art transform ...

After decades spent pruning thorny bushes and working arduous harvests, Khalaf Allah al-Talhi has perfected the art of ...

A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...