Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July

Booksreview

Two books have different takes on the question: just what is Islamic Art?

One title, based on a recent exhibition, and another with an academic bent present divergent interpretations, from the context of workmanship and religion

Former Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis remaps Lisbon's Gulbenkian

Freed from Tate's "tough agenda" of blockbuster shows, sculpture scholar is opening up Portuguese museum's Islamic collections