Thursday, April 25, 2024

Pop Culture Meets Persian Miniature: Interview With Artist Rabee Baghshani 

By Katy Shahandeh Rabee Baghshani is a self-taught artist based in Mashhad, Iran whose work fuses Persian miniatures and Qajar iconography with Pop art and contemporary branding. Baghshani was born in Mashhad in 1983 into a...

Prima Ballerina Haydeh Changizian Dreams of Reopening A Ballet School in Iran

By Katy Shahandeh Haydeh Changizian is an artist with an illustrious past. Formerly a Prima Ballerina with the National Ballet of Iran – before its shutdown after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 – she has...