Friday, May 17, 2024

Contemporary Iranian Photography in the Spotlight At Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum

By Nazanine Nouri Shadi Ghadirian is one of four Iranian photographers featured in a major exhibition at Berlin's Pergamonmuseum, one of the city's main attractions. The works by Ghadirian, Arman Stepanian, Najaf Shokri, and Taraneh Hemami...

Googoosh Pays Tribute to Dead Iranian Protesters In Sold-Out Paris Mega-Concert

By Nazanine Nouri Googoosh took Paris by storm with a sold-out concert at the 3,700-seat Palais des Congrès on December 20, bringing audiences to their feet in a performance that drew laughter and tears and...

Uber CEO Khosrowshahi Defends Company After 3,000 Sexual Assaults Reported in U.S. Last Year

By Nazanine Nouri Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in the hot seat after his company disclosed in a long-awaited safety study earlier this month that 3,000 sexual assaults had been reported on its U.S. rides...

Shirin Neshat Exhibition of Photography, Video Opens At Paris’s Association Azzedine Alaia

By Nazanine Nouri Two years after the unveiling of her movie “Looking for Oum Kulthum” at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, Shirin Neshat is exhibiting related artworks in France at the Association Azzedine Alaïa in...

Ziba Ardalan on Parasol London, Curating Elsewhere: Interview

By Nazanine Nouri Ziba Ardalan -- founder and director of London’s Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art, and one of London’s most respected curators -- announced recently that she was closing the space in 2020 and...

Kamran Diba Remembers His ‘Rasht 29’ Artist Club, Featured in Barbican Show

By Nazanine Nouri The first major show exploring the social and artistic role of cabarets, cafes and clubs around the world just opened at the Barbican Art Gallery. Rasht 29 —a private members’ club for...

Top-Selling Artist Ali Banisadr, Who Grew Up During Iran-Iraq War, Gets Show at Ropac...

By Nazanine Nouri An exhibition of new works by the New York-based artist Ali Banisadr has opened at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, the artist’s sixth show with the gallery.  “Ordered Disorders” reflects on the...
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Shirin Ebadi, Mahnaz Afkhami Honored in London Ceremony

By Nazanine Nouri Five Iranian women — Shirin Ebadi, Mahnaz Afkhami, Shadi Sadr, Pooneh Ghoddoosi, and Leila Alikarami — were honored in a ceremony on October 1 at The Royal United Services Institute in London. “Iranian...