At Art Dubai, Farideh Lashai Is Remembered In Special Display: Interview
By Rawaa Talass
Nine years ago, Iran lost one of its most prominent female artists, Farideh Lashai, after a long battle with cancer. Yet Lashai’s memory lives on.
Her abstract works were a highlight of this...
Life At the Italian Embassy in Tehran: Ambassador’s Daughter Writes Graphic Novel
By Ahmad Rafat
Chiara Mezzalama has a special relationship with Iran: She moved there two years after the 1979 Revolution when her father, Francesco Mezzalama, became the Italian ambassador to Tehran. They lived in the...
Iranian Artists Show Work in New “DC Unsettled” Exhibition in Washington
By Firouzeh Nabavi
“DC Unsettled” is the title of a new exhibition in Washington, D.C. organized by the Art4US artist cooperative. Artists and poets reflect on what DC means to them — through painting, photography,...
Iranian-Born Journalist Farah Nayeri Releases Book on Art and Censorship
By Natasha Phillips
Artists are regularly monitored and censored nowadays in places such as the Middle East and Asia. According to a new book by Farah Nayeri, they face complicated challenges in the West, too.
In...
Iranian Experts Discover Cuneiform Tablet Dating Back to Reign of Xerxes I
By Kayhan Life Staff
Experts at the Takhte Jamshid World Heritage’s Research Center for Paleography — the study of historical writing — have discovered a limestone tablet written in cuneiform inside the archives of the...
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...
INTERVIEW: Singer Niaz Nawab Fuses Persian Poetry With Western Sound
By Fred Parvaneh
Niaz Nawab is an Iranian-born singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, and music teacher currently residing in Paris.
As a scion of one of Iran’s most prominent musical families, Niaz was spotted early on as...
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...
