Art and Lingerie: Award-winning Azita Moradkhani Discusses Her ‘Victorious Secrets’
By Tara Biglari
Azita Moradkhani is an Iranian-born artist whose work draws inspiration from the great art of the past. She recently won the Young Masters Art Prize – awarded by the London-based Cynthia Corbett...
Iran at the Venice Biennale (Part II): Shirin Neshat’s New Portraits
The Iranian-born visual artist Shirin Neshat is very much in the spotlight at this year's Venice Biennale – the world's oldest and most extensive international art fair. She has an exhibition on at the Museo...
France’s Top Photo Festival Spotlights Kiarostami, Shadi Ghadirian
Iranians are in the spotlight this year at France's foremost photography festival, the Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles. Held in the heart of Provence – in the city Vincent van Gogh once called home...
Monir Farmanfarmaian, Y.Z. Kami Star in London Sufism Exhibition
By Tara Biglari
Monir Farmanfarmaian and Y.Z. Kami are two of the world's most prominent Iranian-born artists. Their works were recently on show in a London exhibition celebrating the 700th anniversary of The Garden of...
Pioneering Film Poster Artist Qazi Falls on Hard Times
Manouchehr Qazizadeh, fondly known as “Qazi," was one of Iran’s leading film poster artists before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Now destitute, he is forced to sell his oil paintings in the streets of Tehran,...
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...
Deaf and Mute Iranian Artist Esfandiarpour Remembered in London Show
By Tara Biglari
An exhibition by the contemporary artist Darvish recently opened at the Asia House cultural center in London. The artist joined the world-famous dancer and choreographer Akram Khan for a panel discussion at the opening.
Darvish, who has...
Painter Katty Biglari Exhibits in D.C., Talks About Her Art
Katty Biglari is an Iranian-born abstract painter living and working in Washington, D.C. She just opened a group show with three other artists at Gallery B in Bethesda, Maryland.
The show, "Us Four" (ending March...
Louvre Museum Stages Exhibition in Tehran
The Louvre Museum has just opened the first large-scale exhibition organized by a major Western museum in Iran. Held at the National Museum of Iran, “The Louvre in Tehran” traces the creation of the...
Targeting ISIS in Her Art: Morehshin Allahyari Shows in London
The Iranian-American artist Morehshin Allahyari won herself an important accolade last year: she was voted one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2016 by Foreign Policy magazine. Allahyari was recognized for “saving heritage...
