Thursday, May 16, 2024

Culture

Tehran Gallery Ab Anbar Stages London Show Near V&A

By Nazanine Nouri Ab-Anbar, one of the leading independent galleries in Tehran, is exhibiting the work of four contemporary and modern Iranian artists until June 13th at Cromwell Place in London. Timed to coincide with “Epic...

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...

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...

EXCLUSIVE: The Sweet Destiny of Arash Sobhani, The Kiosk Band Leader Speaks to...

By Ahmad Rafat Arash Sobhani is the founder of the pioneering Iranian rock group Kiosk. An architecture graduate, he formed his band before moving to the U.S. Kiosk was one of the prominent bands in...

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,...

Close-Up in London: Remembering Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami, the world-famous Iranian film director who passed away on July 4 in Paris, is being remembered in lectures, conferences and film screenings all around the world. One such event was an in memoriam...

‘Letters to A Young Muslim’: An Ambassador’s Advice to Young People in the Muslim...

By Peyman Pejman
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, there has been much criticism in the West that the Muslim world, collectively speaking, has not done enough soul searching, and that it has shied away from discussing taboo issues.

Remains of Iranian Prince Discovered in Southern Russia

May 16, 2019 - Archeologists excavating a burial site in the southern Russian town of Nikolsk, near the city of Astrakhan on Volga River, have discovered skeletal remains of eight individuals, one of which...

Sotheby’s Senior Director Roxane Zand Co-Authors Book on Geometry and Art in Mideast

By Cyrus Naji The British Museum in London recently hosted the launch of “Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East,” an exploration of the role of geometry in contemporary Middle Eastern art. The book...

“Exiles from Paradise”: Novelist Brigitte Adès Explores the Life of Iranians in the West

By Firouzeh Nabavi Brigitte Adès is a French journalist and author who, for the past 25 years, has been the UK bureau chief of the respected French foreign-affairs journal Politique Internationale. Married to an Iranian-born...