This month, the Kennedy Center hosts hundreds of musicians, dancers, artists, writers and thinkers from the Arab world in a three-week arts festival called Arabesque. Representatives say there has ...

The intricate art first gained public popularity in 10th century. Since then it has been used as an eminent feature in architecture, pottery, textiles and metal vessels. JERUSALEM: An amalgamation of ...

And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight ...

The Albin Polasek Museum puts a new spin on a traditional art form in its latest exhibition, “Arabesque: Contemporary Conversations.” Arabesque is a style of art that uses interlacing geometric lines ...

The most recognizable geometric motif in Islamic art, collectively known as the "arabesque," stands at the center of a brand new exhibition in Jerusalem this winter. Fittingly located inside the ...

An ambitious Arab art festival in Washington hoped to change the all too familiar perception of the Arab world as a place of terror, religious extremism and constant struggle by offering a glimpse ...

Regular visitors to Art Beat will remember that I was in the Middle East a few weeks back, talking to artists (and, as it turned out, reporting on the Gaza conflict’s fallout) for a series of profiles ...

The influence of Arab, African and Asian art on Henri Matisse is the theme of a major collection of the French artist's work that has gone on show in Rome. The exhibition, "Matisse Arabesque", runs ...

An ambitious, three-week festival called "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World" opens at the Kennedy Center in Washington Monday. Jeffrey Brown offers the first in a series of broadcast and online ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 0:00 This month, the Kennedy ...