Omar and Unholy Wars, two new operas premiering at the upcoming 46th season of Spoleto Festival USA, expand the traditional opera canon. Omar, full-length opera by Grammy-award-winning musician...

Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s traces the emergence and development of abstraction in the Arab world through 60 paintings and sculptures by a group of artists from...

Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive, using their own body as an archive, employs a variety of multimedia collage techniques (sculptures, installations, collages, drawings, photographs and textiles) to...

Falcons: The Art of the Hunt offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of falcons. Swift, fierce and loyal, falcons have been celebrated for millennia. Ancient Egyptians associated them with...

Queen Nefertari's Egypt features 230 objects from the artisan village of Deir-el-Medina, home to those who created the royal tombs, including that of Queen Nefertari. This exhibition showcases...

Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq, through the museum's masterworks on special loan from the British Museum, reveals how Assyrian kings in the ninth to seventh centuries BCE decorated their...

Life in a Cup: Coffee Culture in the Islamic World explores the traditions that make coffee : way of life in parts of the Islamic world. Coffeehouses emerged as meeting places where people of...

Amarna traces the rise and fall of Amarna, the magnificent city built by pharaonic Egypt's royal couple Akhenaten and Queen Nefertitti as a new place of residence, which although housing...

The ancient Egyptians believed that to make rebirth possible for a deceased woman, she briefly had to turn into a man. Guided by new research inspired in part by feminist scholarship, the...