The fourth biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art is currently underway in Doha, Qatar at the Museum of Islamic Art, designed by I.M. Pei, where twelve speakers are discussing specific objects in the Museum’s collection.

The title of this Symposium is God Is Beautiful; He Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture, and the keynote address was given by Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author for The New Yorker, who discussed the Museum building as a work of Islamic art.