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Thursday, 14 August 2025

Reclaiming the Geometry of Abstraction

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With his latest series of shaped paintings, layered with meaning and symbolism, the artist Kour Pour insists that the so-called canon is inf...
Thursday, 7 August 2025

Seeing Beyond the Visible:

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Hoda Afshar at musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac The acclaimed Iranian-Australian artist’s first solo exhibition in France opens this Se...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

An interview about art, hope and building peace

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with Iranian American artist Shaudi Bianca Vahdat Shaudi Bianca Vahdat  spoke with Real Change about the importance of representation in art...
Thursday, 24 July 2025

‘Sunrise at the Vortex’

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Behind Nima Nabavi ’ s vast geometric vortex painting: converging energy, labor, and structure Image by Tonee Harbert. Courtesy of The Third...
Thursday, 17 July 2025

'I Want to Sing Alone':

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Iranian Film Wins International Prize Despite Persecution “Bidad”. Courtesy of KVIFF by Romina Omidpanah ,  IranWire Iranian director Soheil...
Thursday, 10 July 2025

Iran’s repression of artists in ongoing assault on freedom of expression

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My Favourite Cake directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha. Photograph: Mohammad Haddadi. Courtesy The Guardian. by Parvin Ardalan, ...
Wednesday, 9 July 2025

From under the Dining Table

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by  Amir Ahmadi Arian ,  London Review of Books I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and...
Thursday, 3 July 2025

A Land Made of Mirrors and Stone:

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 A literary response to the incursion on Iran by Ezz Monem. Courtesy Arena Online by Somayeh Falsafi , Arena Online When Israeli missiles ra...
Thursday, 26 June 2025

Hannah Darabi wins the Prix Elysée

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In the pages of The Secrets of Sexual Fulfilment , Mahvash – a popular figure among the working class of 1950s Tehran – presented playfully ...
Tuesday, 24 June 2025

The geometry of memory: Persian patterns and diasporic identity

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Nazila Keshavarz uses felt to reconnect with her Persian roots “Persian Garden” — Felt Collage (felt & ceramics sewed on canvas), 75 X 7...
Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Andy Warhol in Iran

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 How Brent Askari came up with ‘Andy Warhol in Iran,’ now at Mosaic Theater The playwright talks about his thought-provoking, deliciously fu...
Thursday, 5 June 2025

Censorship into art:

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why Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s subversive stories are getting the world’s attention A still from the film Offside (2006) by director Ja...
Thursday, 29 May 2025

Reading in Iran: Literature That Crosses Borders

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Photo of Saless Bookstore, Tehran by Sepideh Nazaralizadeh. Courtesy World Literature Today by Poupeh Missaghi , Emad Mortazavi , Leili Ente...
Thursday, 22 May 2025

Freudian Typo

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At the Hayward Gallery: A New Take on Empire and Childhood Lore with Freudian Typo Artists Ghazaleh Avarzamani and Ali Ahadi explore the ech...
Thursday, 15 May 2025

An alternative political reality

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Nazanin Noori’s Acts of Witness At Auto Italia, London, the artist’s work interrogates Iran’s recent political history  Nazanin Noori, ‘THE ...

Foreigner

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Nahid Rachlin, Novelist Who Explored the Iranian Psyche, Dies at 85 One of the first Iranian novelists to write in English, she examined the...
Thursday, 8 May 2025

Verses of Life:

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A Review of ‘Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution’, edited by Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom Courtesy Guernica Editions. by  Daniel ...
Thursday, 1 May 2025

“Humour helps overcome the fear imposed by dictatorship”

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Mana Neyestani , who lives in exile in France, is among Iran’s best-known political cartoonists. In this interview, he talks about freedom o...
Thursday, 24 April 2025

Artists of the Middle East

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New book on Middle Eastern art  Arab art expert Saeb Eigner explores the work of more than 250 Modern and contemporary artists spanning dive...
Thursday, 17 April 2025

“O Chimera O Chimera” explores gender and transformation in Iran

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The Mine is presenting O Chimera O Chimera, Feathers Whisper, Talons gleam, Mortal Flesh And Mythic scheme a solo presentation by Bita Fayya...
Friday, 11 April 2025

Between Shadow and Light

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Yosra Mojtahedi (b. 1986) is a Tehran-born artist based in France who explores various fields at the intersection of art, science, and tech...
Thursday, 3 April 2025

“I am enough and whole as I am”:

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Bea Dero casts hybridity onto the streets of London Bound by Two Homes blends Iranian cultural iconography with quintessentially British sp...
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

“Song of the North”

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Bringing a Persian Epic to the World, With Help From 483 Puppets Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Irania...
Thursday, 13 March 2025

A Review on "The Persians" – women on the edge

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5 Iranian Women are at the Centre of New Fiction Release, The Persians This multigenerational saga of an Iranian family fleeing to the US du...
Wednesday, 5 March 2025

The Artistic Journey of an Iranian Designer

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 A New Book Shares the Artistic Odyssey of Iranian Designer Farshid Mesghali Man & Lion  (sculpture), 2006. © Farshid Mesghali; Courtesy...
Thursday, 27 February 2025

Filmed underground and in secret:

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The story behind this 'banned' Oscar-nominated film Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof filmed The Seed of The Sacred Fig in defian...

‘Embracing imperfection is key to artistic evolution’:

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An interview with Iranian artist Sadegh Adham ‘These works invite humanity on an aesthetic journey, free from political and social biases’ S...

The Barbican as muse:

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Composer Shiva Feshareki on bringing the brutalist icon to life through music For the last two years, British-Iranian experimental composer ...

Filmmaking as Rebellion:

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 An Interview with Nahid Hassanzadeh Another Time (2016), Directed by Nahid Hassanzadeh. Image courtesy of Visions of Iran: Iranian Film Fe...
Thursday, 20 February 2025

“I am an Actress, Where is my Country?”

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A Seattle actor explores what it means to be an artist in exile Julia Rahmanzaei’s student project at the University of Washington, called “...
Friday, 14 February 2025

A Review on "Maximal Miniatures: Contemporary Art from Iran"

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The artists twisting Persian masterpieces with stunning color With dreamlike imagery and bold patterns, contemporary Iranian artists have re...
Thursday, 30 January 2025

Why Reading Lolita in Tehran Holds Up

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 A new film vindicates Azar Nafisi’s humane literary ethos. © Photographer: Sasan/AFP/Getty Images. Via MSN by Arash Azizi , The Atlantic Th...
Friday, 22 November 2024

Iranian artist redefines calligraphy through tradition and innovation

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 An Interview   Korosh Ghazimorad’s work embodies a unique synergy of historical reverence and innovative spirit  Korosh Ghazimorad, ‘Breath...