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Friday, 3 October 2025

Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives, Second Edition (New Texts Out Now)

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“What does contemporaneity signify for Iranian artists, and how have they drawn inspiration from contemporary life?” Hamid Keshmirshekan, Co...
Thursday, 2 October 2025

The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

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#RivetingReviews: Mandy Wight reviews THE NIGHTS ARE QUIET IN TEHRAN by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin by Mandy Wight, #RivetingRev...

Filmmaker Homa Sarabi maps her place in the world

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Sarabi's inscribed pieces of parchment drape down to the floor in her office at the Boston Center for the Arts. Courtesy Jesse Costa/WBU...
Thursday, 25 September 2025

Women for Peace: Voices of hope and humanity

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“Women for Peace” is a unique concept-concert that unites voices from around the world to promote reconciliation, hope, and solidarity and p...

Persian Poet: A Woman Made of Fire

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Courtesy Persian Poet and UP Magazine. by Stained Napkins, UP Magazine As a poet, I’m always looking at words throughout the city, whether i...
Thursday, 18 September 2025

This Memoir Is a Bridge to Iranian Solidarity

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Journalists Nilo Tabrizy and Fatemeh Jamalpour discuss the political legacy of women in Iran in “For The Sun After Long Nights” Courtesy Ele...
Sunday, 14 September 2025

Despite red tape from US sanctions, Tehran-based gallery champions Iranian art at The Armory Show

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Owner of O Gallery says her participation affirms ‘importance of cultural dialogue at a time when exchange across borders is increasingly fr...
Thursday, 4 September 2025

‘The Seasick’ exhibition shares stories of Iranian refugees arriving by boat

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Markela Panegyres spoke to artist Elaheh Mahdavi about her and her brother Arman’s recent exhibition The Seasick , at Gallery 1855 in Kaurn...
Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Between Myth and Modernity:

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On Persian Stories, Identity, and the US-Iran Divide Ryan Bani Tahmaseb Considers the Enduring Wisdom of Iranian Myths Courtesy Lit Hub by R...
Tuesday, 2 September 2025

“What They Had to Conceal”

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In this interview, Iranian filmmaker Maryam Tafakory discusses how she abstracts and rewrites post-revolutionary Iranian cinema to reveal th...
Thursday, 28 August 2025

Dialogical Narratives

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at Elizabeth Moss Gallery Samira Abbassy, Nocturnal Bird Spirit , Collage, acrylic, gouache on board, 11 x 14 in, 27.9 x 35.6 cm. Courtesy t...

Review: Desolation

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Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction Daniel Handl/Pexels. Courtesy ...
Saturday, 23 August 2025

A man from Shiraz bares his scars:

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Shayan Sajadian’s best photograph ‘Censorship in Iran is pervasive. The state is unwilling to allow an honest portrayal of public life. I fo...
Thursday, 21 August 2025

‘I painted so prison wouldn’t swallow us whole’:

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An interview with Iranian journalist Vida Rabbani ‘When space and materials are scarce, your mind does the work of finding freedom’ Vida Rab...
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...