Art by Mohassess, Nicky Nodjoumi Goes On Show in Dastan Gallery’s London Exhibition
By Nazanine Nouri
The Dastan Gallery, one of Tehran’s leading art dealerships, has opened an exhibition in London that ends March 1 and is the first in a series. The venue is No. 9 Cork...
Outstanding Safavid Textiles, Oil Paintings Go On Show at Smithsonian in Washington
By Nazanine Nouri
An exceptional collection of 17th-century textiles and full-length oil portraits from Safavid Iran (1501-1722) has gone on display for the first time in the United States at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of...
Toledo Museum of Art to Spotlight Iran’s Rich Cultural Heritage in Exhibition Opening in...
By Nazanine Nouri
Iran’s rich artistic and cultural heritage will be in the spotlight at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from late April to late July, when more than 100 works spanning the...
Basketballs Become Art in Paris Exhibition Championed by Tennis Player Mansour Bahrami
By Nazanine Nouri
Basketballs were on display in a two-week exhibition held at the Galerie Nicolas Flamel in Paris last month. “Basket Goes Persian: When Origins Inspire” — curated by Hessam Khalatbari, Yassi Metghalchi, and...
Berlin State Museums Celebrate Five Millennia of Iranian Culture in Major Exhibition
By Nazanine Nouri
The Berlin State Museums have recently opened a major exhibition focusing on 5,000 years of Iranian history and heritage. “Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture” (at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)...
Roxanne Varza, “Queen of French Startups,” Heads World’s Largest Startup Incubator
By Nazanine Nouri
Roxanne Varza is known in France as the Queen of French Startups. The Iranian-American runs Station F -- the world’s largest startup incubator – in Paris. Varza is considered one of the...
Empress Farah Republishes Pre-Revolution Memoirs, Discusses Them in Harvard Interview
By Nazanine Nouri
“1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress” is the title of a memoir that Empress Farah Pahlavi wrote in 1976, three years before the Islamic Revolution. It was published in French in 1978,...
Celebrated Painter Iran Darroudi, Whose Career Spanned Six Decades, Passes Away at Age 85
By Nazanine Nouri
Iran Darroudi, the prominent Iranian painter, director, writer, art critic and university professor, died of cardiac arrest at age 85 in Tehran on October 29.
Darroudi was considered one of the most prominent...
Paris’s Asia Now Fair Shines Spotlight on Iranian Galleries, Pioneering Female Artists
By Nazanine Nouri
Iranian art galleries were in the spotlight at the Asia Now Art Fair last week. For its 7th edition, the fair devoted an entire section to Iran, bringing a selection of Iran’s...
‘Asia Now’ Fair in Paris Cancels Display of Paykan Art Car, Project Supporting Iran’s...
By Nazanine Nouri
The PaykanArtCar -- a Paykan automobile turned into an artwork by the Iranian artist Alireza Shojaian in support of Iran’s LGBTQ community -- was due to be exhibited at the Asia Now...
