Exhibition on Iranian Women’s Protests Opens at Jerusalem Islamic Art Museum
By Ahmad Rafat
Some 52 works by contemporary Iranian artists, active in Iran and abroad, are on show in an exhibition titled “Five-Woman, Life, Freedom” at the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem through April...
Iranian Refugee Portrait Leads Hoda Afshar to Win Australia’s Top Photography Award
The Melbourne-based, Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar is the 2018 winner of the Bowness Photography Prize, Australia’s most important photography award, for her “Portrait of Behrouz Boochani, Manus Island.”
Afshar was selected from among 50 finalists...
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...
Tehran-Based Architect Alireza Taghaboni Wins Royal Academy Architecture Award
The Tehran-based architect Alireza Taghaboni has just been named as the winner of the Royal Academy Dorfman Award for architecture, given out for the first time this year by the U.K.’s Royal Academy of...
Isabella Nefar Discusses Role in Upcoming ˋReading Lolita’ Movie, Alongside Farahani
By Katayoun Shahandeh
Isabella Nefar is an Iranian-Italian actor who spent her formative years in Iran before studying in Italy and later at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She recently finished...
In Manou’s London Exhibition, War Helmets Get a Second Life
By Tara Biglari
Living in a world that seems increasingly dominated by radical groups, ideological conflict and hatred, the Iranian artist Manou Marzban is on a mission to convey positivity. An exhibition of his most...
Tanavoli Exhibition of Birds, Cages, Wearable Art Opens at Vancouver Art Museum
By Kayhan Life
“Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli” is an exhibition currently on at the West Vancouver Art Museum that spans the six-decade career of the Iranian-Canadian artist. It focuses on his wearable art as well...
Painter Whose Artworks Were Destroyed Has Berlin Show
By Azadeh Karimi
Jaleh Pourhang-Ramezani was the first woman artist to paint a female nude in Iran. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, authorities destroyed many of her works, prompting Mrs. Pourhang-Ramezani to leave Iran. She...
Portraits of Iranians in 2022: Alexandre Arminjon Opens Photography Show in Paris
By Firouzeh Nabavi
Alexandre Arminjon is a French-Swiss photographer based in Paris. He is also the co-founder of a shared darkroom that doubles as an exhibition space.
Ithaque, as the space is called, is now hosting...
Israeli Museum Celebrates Iranian Graphic Art
By Ahmad Rafat
An exhibition of contemporary Iranian poster art is currently on in a highly unexpected location: the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. Ending on November 19, the exhibition is a...
