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Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Symbolic accumulation as an act of universal resistance

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Navid Azimi Sajadi at Studio la Linea Verticale Navid Azimi Sajadi, “Untitled”, 2025, carpet, hand-woven wool tapestry with cotton base, 89×...

Inside Iran’s New Sculptural Language of Memory and Desire

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Hanie Rahimian and Shiva Abazariyan are an emerging Iranian artist duo from Mashhad whose collaborative practice spans sculpture, paper mach...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

I Won't Pretend These Missiles Are Stars

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Liz Frances, Publisher at Street Noise Books , sits down with Interviews Editor, Andrew Irvin, to discuss the anonymously produced graphic a...

Diary of a Massacre: Iran, 2026

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This anonymous diary was written during the January 2026 massacre of protesters in Tehran and published anonymously on a diaspora website ri...
Thursday, 16 April 2026

Between Patronage and Rebellion

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The creative disassembly of the Golestan Film Workshop, Iran’s first independent film studio The Crown Jewels of Iran. Still courtesy of Cin...
Wednesday, 8 April 2026

“Infrequencies”

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Kamrooz Aram Breaks Down the Grid Rather than deconstruct Western modernism or reinsert Islamic visual idioms, the artist loosens the grip o...

“Iran After the Fire”—a Speculative Ethnography

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Exhibit of a bombed classroom, in the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense Museum in Tehran, Iran (photo Matyas Rehak). Courtesy The Markaz R...
Wednesday, 1 April 2026

In “When the Div Came Home,”

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Soheila Kayoud Mixes Whimsy and Macabre The Iranian-born artist’s first solo exhibition at Andrew Rafacz uses mythological creatures to expl...

Bashu, Beyzaie and the Paradox of Iranian Identity

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In 1986, as the Iran – Iraq war raged on, Bahram Beyzaie completed a film that would define his career and challenge Iranian self-image for ...

From the Rooftops of Tehran

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We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves. Leanne Shapton: Untitled , 2022. Courtesy The New York Review. by Anonymous,  The New Y...
Thursday, 26 March 2026

To Measure the Emotions of Others

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Golnar Adili’s Family Archive Golnar Adili’s work at Smack Mellon, New York, embodies the desire to account for loss through art Golnar Adil...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

All of You

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Installation view: Andisheh Avini: All of You at Martos Gallery, New York, 2026. Courtesy Martos Gallery, Steven Probert Studio and The Bro...
Thursday, 12 March 2026

Iranian Artist Highlights The Long Resistance

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At Ball and Socket Arts. Mahsa Attaran, Sweep It Under the Rug . Courtesy Midbrow.  by  Brian Slattery ,  Midbrow Mahsa Attaran's I Stil...
Thursday, 26 February 2026

Silence Spoken and a Cry in the Dark:

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Bani Khoshnoudi at the Vanishing Point A director considers stills from her latest film as sources of infinite mourning for Iran’s past—and ...

Artist invites public to tune out to tune in, as part of new local exhibition

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Artist Abbas Zahedi on his new artist residency at the Stanley Picker Gallery Photo credit: Valentina Vinciarelli. Courtesy Kingston Courier...
Wednesday, 25 February 2026

90 Works by Ardeshir Mohassess

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LACMA ’ s New Acquisition Ardeshir Mohassess, Census 1 , 1986, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Ardeshir Babaknia, M.D., M.2026.24,...
Thursday, 19 February 2026

Colour Me Beautiful

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Fierce and political, ‘The Chromophiliacs’ explodes like a paint factory demolition. And it’s glorious. Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, Ruth Paul’s Dr...

Islamic Art, Rewritten, The Modern Islamic Artists Reshaping Contemporary Culture

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Maha Malluh, Food for Thought 'Al-Muallaqat', 2014. Courtesy the artist and A&E Magazine. by Nour Jarmakani, A&E Magazine Mo...
Wednesday, 18 February 2026

For Hearts in Exile,

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at Summerhall Arts Edinburgh Taraneh Dana, A Heart in Exile , 2025, stoneware, glaze. Courtesy Summerhall Arts.   by  Omur Sahin Keyif ,  Ar...

Who Can I Dance With?

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From sneaking into underground basements in Tehran [...] to learning to dance with almost no words in Northern California, I had done everyt...
Thursday, 12 February 2026

“to arrive is never to arrive”

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Skyline’s art gallery explores themes of displacement and reclamation Guest artists present ‘to arrive is never to arrive,’ an exhibition ex...

Forbidden Music:

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Iranian Musicians Push Back Against the Islamic Republic A Conversation with TarantisT, Justina, and DJ Ali Pink Issue #74 - The Protest Iss...
Thursday, 5 February 2026

Iranian Artists Keep the Spirit of “Woman, Life, Freedom” Alive

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Over three years after the suspicious death of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked a nationwide protest movement in Iran, artists continue to fuel crea...

‘Octogone’

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  Interview. Chalisée Naamani Protest, fashion history, training equipment, resistance, children’s toys, the search for identity, and the cu...
Thursday, 29 January 2026

The art of resistance:

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Iranian photographer Ayna Moazzen on identity and building cultural bridges Copyright Courtesy of Ayna Moazzen and Euronews. by Saida Rustam...
Thursday, 22 January 2026

A Bug’s Life

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New London exhibition uses architecture to explore the experiences of Iran’s American diaspora Arash Nassiri’s film installation at London’s...
Friday, 16 January 2026

Reports of Artists Killed by Iranian Regime Draw Outrage and Grief

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Sculptor Mehdi Salahshour and filmmaker Javad Ganji are among the members of Iran’s creative community reportedly killed during anti-governm...
Thursday, 15 January 2026

Iranian Art Communities Respond to Political Unrest

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Protestors in Tehran, 2026. Via social media. Courtesy picture alliance/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock and ArtAsiaPacific. by Aisha Traub Chan...

Driving in the Dark

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This piece was written before Iran imposed an internet blackout on 8 January. by Raha Nik-Andish ,  London Review of Books Six months ago I ...
Friday, 2 January 2026

“Tahmina”—a story from Iran

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In this short story translated from Persian, an ordinary day swiftly — and brutally — changes course, with lasting implications. Amir Fallah...
Friday, 19 December 2025

Returning the gaze:

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 Hoda Afshar investigates a colonial obsession Working with an archive of photographs made over a century ago, the artist folds the gaze bac...

Art Gallery of St. Albert highlights the immigrant experience

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Visual artist Mohammad Hossein Abbasi depicts the process immigrants face in rebuilding their lives in a new country built around a differen...
Tuesday, 16 December 2025

150 Years of Iranian Graphic Design

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Courtesy The Daily Heller, Print Magazine. by Steven Heller , The Daily Heller ,  Print Magazine Various books, exhibits and at least one ma...