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New York - Persian Arts Festival Celebrate Norooz 2013
NYC's Persian Arts Festival, Inc. (PAF), an organization devoted to providing a platform for Persian artists and visionaries, joins forces with Le Poisson Rouge and other Persian cultural organizations to present a New Year extravaganza featuring Persian fusion from three of the city's top-tiered bands. - 3/19/13
Photos: Colored Egg Festival at Tehran's Water-Fire Park
Painted Eggs - symbolizing Humans and Fertility - is one of the Nowruz seven "Haft Chin" items which still decorate today's "Haft Sin" tables - a major traditional table setting of Nowruz. - 3/18/13
Photos: Egg Coloring Festival in Tehran
An egg coloring festival is being held in Tehran March 15-16 with the participation of 92 artists. The festival is organized by Tehran's Beautification Organization in Fire and Water, City, and Parvaz parks. - 3/15/13
Pop Up tour exhibiting works of Iranian stencil/street artists Icy and Sot
ICY (born 1985) and SOT (born 1991) are stencil artists from Tabriz - IRAN. they started their professional career in 2008 they had uploaded previous works as early as 2006 and they influenced and dragged their friends to street art. Their works are about peace, war, Love, hate, hope, despair, children, human rights and the Iranian culture. - 3/10/13
Dubai - Magic of Persia's Nowrouz Concert
Following a great success during Magical Nights 2012, Magic of Persia will be hosting its second Shanbehzadeh Ensemble concert in March 2013. Back by popular demand, Shanbehzadeh Ensemble will be back in Dubai to celebrate Iranian Nowrouz once again! - 3/5/13
Perpetuation of Myth: An Exhibition by Iranian-American Artists
The Museums of Los Gatos presents Perpetuation of Myth a new exhibition at The Art Museum of Los Gatos at 4 Tait Avenue, Los Gatos, California. Perpetuation of Myth, curated by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe is on view March 7 - April 14, 2013. - 3/4/13
Photos: Tehran's Laleh Park Hosts Land Art Festival
Tehran's Laleh Park is currently playing host to a festival of land art works. The Tehran Municipality has organized the festival, which commenced on Sunday. "Due to its mission and attraction, the environmental art belongs to the future," festival secretary Ahmad Nadalian said during the opening ceremony of the event. - 2/26/13
Iranian contemporary artist Farideh Lashai dies at 68
One of the most important and famous Iranian contemporary female artists in Iran and in the world, a translator and writer, Farideh Lashai died on Sunday (February 24), after a long battle with cancer at the age of 68. Despite her illness, she continued her artistic activity until the last days. - 2/25/13
Photos: Fourth soil carpet "woven" in Hormuz Island
'Soil carpet' is a sketch of Persian carpet painted on bare soil. The fourth 'soil carpet' was opened to public visit in the Iranian island of Hormuz in Persian Gulf on Saturday. The carpet, measuring 1400 square meters, was created by provincial artists using different colors of natural soil of the Island. Around 40 artists along with another 40 assistants participated in creating this land art. - 2/18/13
Iranian photographer wins awards at World Photo Press
Iranian photographer Ebrahim Noruzi has won two awards at the World Photo Press 2013. The winners of the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest were announced on Friday. Noruzi won the first prize of the Observed Portraits Section for his photo collection "Victims of Forced Love". - 2/17/13
Photos: The Making of Bakhtiari Rugs
The Bakhtiari tribe, based in Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari, is well-known for their rugs and weavings. Bakhtiari Rugs are based on a cotton foundation (warp) with a wool weft usually taken from the herds of the producing tribe. This leads to unique carpets that differ depending on the characteristics of each tribe's wool. - 2/16/13
Exhibition: Jewelry With Persian Garden Motifs at Golestan Gallery in Tehran
A collection of jewelry bearing motifs inspired by the Persian garden will be showcased in an art show at Tehran's Golestan Gallery later this week. The collection has been created by Bahram Dashtinejad and Toktam Fazel, a jeweler couple that always draws inspiration from the Iranian garden for their works. - 2/13/13
The Other Modernism: Rediscovering Iran's Avant-Garde
Overshadowed by revolution, sanctions, and outdated notions of the Modern, Iran's vibrant postwar art scene is coming into focus at the Asia Society -Robin Cembalest, ARTnews - 2/10/13
Three Iranian artists participating at Florida's "Embracing Our Differences" exhibit
Graphic designs by three Iranian artists Mohammad Afshar, Maedeh Mosawerzadeh and Mona Farsi will go on display at Embracing Our Differences, an outdoor art exhibition which will be held in Sarasota, Florida from March 31 to May 28, 2013. - 2/8/13
Unexposed: Works by 40 Iranian Women artists to be exhibited in Athens and Warsaw
Curator Fery Malek-Madani is happy: "What this exhibition and the time I have spent with each one of these young artists gives to me is hope. The sky is clearing, the hurricane is behind us. Blue skies await the country and this younger generation of Iranians. Above all, what will come after the storm is the rebirth." - 2/7/13
Iranian Artist Now Part of MOCA's Permanent Collection
Farhang Foundation announced today that one of the works of celebrated Iranian artist, Ali Banisadr, will officially go on display from February 10 - March 11, 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) as part of the museum's permanent collection exhibition entitled A Selection of Recent Acquisitions. - 2/6/13
Louvre Museum to showcase works by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat
The Louvre museum in Paris is slated to hold an event showcasing a series of photographs and films by Iranian photographer and filmmaker, Shirin Neshat, on February 3, 2013. - 2/3/13
A Dialog Between Mahshid Modares and Farzin Hedayatzadeh, An Iranian Leading and Award-wining Sculptor
Farzin Hedayatzadeh: In my opinion visual arts in Iran are in despair. And, I don't judge this abject situation based on my own personal taste. Contemporary art in Iran is funded on a rudimentary basis and a misunderstanding of modernity. -Translator and Interviewer: Mahshid Modares - 2/1/13
Announcing the Winner of the 2013 Nowruz Banner Contest
Sheida Koufigar, an Iranian-American graphic designer currently studying at California State University, Long Beach, was named the winner of this year's banner contest, which called upon the public to submit designs that visually represent the spirit of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. - 1/31/13
Iranian Artists Depict the "Agony of Contemporary Iran" in New Book
Sketches of Iran; Exquisite drawings, some in the unadorned clarity of black and white, others washed in visceral colors, sit side by side with searing commentary by leading Iranian writers, activists, journalists, lawyers, and family members of prisoners of conscience. - 1/30/13
Pearls of Persian art
Among the roughly 170 pieces of Islamic art that Norma Jean Calderwood and her husband left to Harvard, one in particular hints at the late collector's philosophy: an earthenware bowl bearing, in precise calligraphy, the epigram "Greed is a sign of poverty." -Harvard Gazette - 1/30/13
Economic Sanction: The second international festival of caricature of the Art Center of North Khorasan Province
The festival was held under the aegis of the center and on the subject of economic sanction and with the goal of producing and creating invaluable works on this topic. - 1/27/13
Iran's Farhadi Completes 'The Past' Shooting in Paris
Academy Award-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has completed shooting of his new project The Past in Paris during recent days. As Farhadi's sixth directorial experience, The Past depicts the story of an Iranian girl and a boy of North African origin. - 1/27/13
HOMOSEXUALITY IN PERSIAN LITERATURE
A sharp contrast exists between the treatment of homosexuality in Islamic law and its reflection in Persian literature, particularly poetry (the chief vehicle of Persian literary expression). - 1/27/13
Exhibition in Toronto: 20 Walls, 20 Iranian Artists
Nami Iranian-Canadian Centre for the Arts (NICCA), is inviting you to its first group art project titled 'Walls'. The project comprises works of 20 Iranian artists and includes paintings, photographs, installations, sculpture, and video art. - 1/23/13
Iranian artists hit by sanctions
International sanctions imposed against Iran over its disputed nuclear program are affecting all areas of Iranian life. Lately, inflation and a severely depreciated currency have begun to bite in a segment of society that seems far removed from debates over uranium enrichment and "possible military dimensions": Tehran's artistic class. -Sune Engel Rasmussen, Guardian - 1/23/13
Humans Of New York In Iran: Street Portraits By Bandon Stanton (PHOTOS)
It's not every day a young American photographer decides to pick up and leave for Iran given the thirty years of raging hostility between the U.S. and Iran - but then again, Brandon Stanton is not every photographer. -Shirin Barghi, Huffington Post - 1/21/13
"Fresh Air": 5 Iranian photographers in France
The House of Artists in Evreux, Normandy in France is currently playing host to a photography exhibition entitled "Fresh Air". Curated by Brigitte Brulois, the exhibition includes works by 5 Iranian photographers: Navid Reyhani, Katayoun Karami, Shadi Ghadirian, Hamid Ghodrati and Mehrdad Asgari Tari. - 1/19/13
Exhibition of Iranian artwork in space
The Secretary of the Exhibition of Iranian Artwork in the International Space Station says that Iranian artwork has been exhibited in International Space Station. - 1/17/13
DEPTH: Photo Exhibition by Mohsen Shahmardi
"I'm keen on vacant streets, wastelands, meadows and abandoned places which are not necessarily somewhere. When it is dusty and foggy or a sandstorm occurs, I feel as if I'm under the sea or ocean." - 1/12/13
Creative Hands of Iranian Women: Embroidered Pateh
"Pateh" is a kind of Iranian handicraft and needlework of colorful wool sewn on women's wear, scarf, and purse. Sewn in the "Toranj" (bergamia), "Sarv" (cypress), and "Booteh" (shrub) patterns (traditional Iranian carpet patterns). Pateh, typically creation of Iranian women and girls, is a spectacular image of colorful flowers and shrubs. - 1/11/13
Exhibition of Rugs by Parviz Tanavoli at Meem Gallery
Meem Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Parviz Tanavoli's recent rugs collection. More commonly known for his sculptures and as one of the founders of the 'Saqqakhaneh School', Tanavoli has for many decades researched, written about, collected and created rugs. - 1/8/13
Photos: Lightning by the Caspian Coast in Northern Iran, and more!
Here are some amazing photos of Iran published by the National Geographic magazine in 2012. Among them is a breathtaking photo of lightning by the Caspian Sea in northern Iranian. - 12/30/12
MesoCity Tehran Workshop: Art, Ecology and the City
Tehran is the biggest city between Istanbul and Mumbai, a city of 13 million in the desert. Like all other cities in Iran it was positioned strategically at the foot of a mountain in order to source water. But all this is forgotten today, and the urban sprawl has come to erase the memory of the underground water irrigation network: the qanat. -Sara Kamalvand, Nafas Art Mgazine - 12/30/12
32 Iranian artists to raise funds for World Food Program
Thirty-two Iranian artists have donated some of their works to the United Nations World Food Program to raise funds to fight hunger. The works were unveiled during a ceremony in an exhibit at the Diplomatic Gallery of the ECO Cultural Institute in Tehran on Wednesday evening. - 12/29/12
Photos: The 3rd "Sculpture Biennial for Urban Spaces" in Tehran
The 3rd Sculpture Biennial for Urban Spaces kicked off on December 16, at Barg gallery, Ein-o-Doleh building in Tehran and will go on for 45 days. The event showcases some 180 works by 172 artists which have been selected by a group of veteran artists. - 12/28/12
Persian Rugs and the Iranian Everyday: Photographer Jalal Sepehr in Yazd
Jalal Sepehr's Knot series (2011) is comprised of 12 images all including a Persian rug (1m x 70cm) taken in the historic city of Yazd in central Iran. Contrary to initial intentions, some of the images in Knot make use of the historic scenes and examples of architecture found in Yazd. -Ajam MC - 12/28/12
Tehran: Where angels don't fly!
In one night, 28 out of 30 angel shaped statues have been mysteriously cut from their bases. 23 statues are lying down on the ground and 5 others have disappeared. - 12/25/12
Sanctions: Silent War - Iranian Artist's 'Pill Protest' Highlights Harmful Side Effects Of Sanctions
Young Iranian artist Sanaz Sohrabi has a mission: to raise awareness of the impact crippling international sanctions are having on ordinary Iranians, especially those living with illnesses. She took the first step this week, setting up a small performance-art protest across the street from UN headquarters in New York. -Courtney Brooks, RFE - 12/22/12
Artworks convey personal stories of persecution
Works of art by a group of Australian-Iranians are highlighting the issue of religious persecution in Iran. A new exhibition here includes works by artists all of whom have family or friends who have faced oppression and imprisonment by the Iranian regime, in particular for their membership of the Baha'i Faith. - 12/18/12
Photos: Weaving Kurdish Kilims
These photos show weaving of Kurdish design kilims in Iran's North Khorassan province. The term kilim originates from the Persian gelim where it means 'to spread roughly'. Various forms of the word are used in other languages. - 12/17/12
LOOK: New series of photographs and video by Newsha Tavakolian
"This time, closer than ever and in my own house, I fixed my camera on a tripod; in front of the window where I'd watched the same view of the city for ten years, a city that I don't know if I love or not. A window that opens on to many other windows that are all closed and I cannot see into." -Newsha Tavakolian - 12/12/12
Tehran gallery hangs works of three generations of female Iranian painters
Works of three generations of female Iranian painters were put on display in an exhibition at Tehran's Mellat Gallery on Friday evening. One hundred works by 47 artists have been selected for the exhibit entitled "Alternative View", the gallery announced in a press release on Sunday. - 12/9/12
Painting exhibit explores changing identity of Tehran
Young painter Alireza Adambakan has depicted the changing identity of modern Tehran in his latest collection "My Figures No. 3", which is currently on display in an exhibition at Tehran's Asar Gallery. - 12/2/12
"Alvin Lucier is sitting in the East Art Gallery" in Tehran
Tehran's East Gallery is currently hosting a sound installation performance based on "I Am Sitting in a Room", by the American composer of experimental music and sound installations Alvin Lucier. - 12/2/12
Taking Risks in Art and Politics
Over the past two decades, Shirin Neshat has drawn on her personal experience of being an artist at home in the West with roots in Iran to illustrate her creed: "People should be free to choose what they want to do with their lives, what they want to wear, what religion they want to believe in; this is not something a government or a community should impose." -NY Times - 11/29/12
Iranian cartoonist gets Silver Feather in her cap at German contest
Iranian cartoonist Parya Puladvand won a Silver Feather at Grafikatur 2012, an international cartoon competition held in Lubben, Germany. Her winning work, which depicts a classroom scene, is currently on display in an exhibition at Lubben's City Hall. - 11/28/12
Iranian photographer takes 1st prize of competition in San Francisco
Farzaneh Radmehr, a photographer from Tehran, was awarded a Gold Medal and took the 1st place prize in The New Images Photography Awards with her photograph "Flying Down". The photograph is part of an exhibition of the Gold Medal Award winners that was held at Studio 17 in San Francisco November 10-25. - 11/26/12
Lecture at Freer Gallery: Making History: Contemporary Art and the Middle East
The study, display, and collecting of art from the Middle East inevitably involve questions of cultural traditions and identity. Glenn Lowry, former F|S curator of Islamic art and now director of the Museum of Modern Art, shares a unique perspective on the emergence of contemporary Middle Eastern art. - 11/23/12
Persian Garden
The great substantial art exhibition held on Persian Gardens at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts in 2004 and registration of Persian Gardens on the list of UNESCO World Heritage in 2011, make it opportune to refer to a vital significant point hidden from the eyes of researchers of the subject so far: Persian Garden is the manifestation of a wise-humanist process with its form and geometry naturally following this process. -Khoobchehr Keshavarzi - 11/12/12
Social Order: Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan
This important exhibition (at Photo Center NW in Seattle) features five contemporary women artists whose work explores the role of women in the context of cultural constructs, religion, censorship and the media. This exhibition draws powerful parallels and invites us all to reconsider our personal roles as advocates of tolerance and diversity in our cities. - 11/12/12
Photos: Persian Carpet Exhibition in Isfahan
There is a Persian Carpet exhibition underway in Isfahan, central Iran, with the goal of promoting these handwoven gems in the internal and external markets. - 11/10/12
Photos:A Persian Flower Carpet
The biggest flower carpet in the Middle East, and the third in the world, measuring about 1,000 meters square, has been unveiled in the town of Mahallat in central Iran. -Mohammad Varvani - 11/5/12
Photos: Festival of Wooden Sculptures in Langroud
The festival of wooden sculptures is underway by the Chamkhaleh coasts in Langroud, nothern Iran. Langarud is a city in Iran's Gilan Province located on the south coast of the Caspian Sea. 36 sculptures in 16 groups are participating in the festival that will last for 10 days. -Sajad Rafikhah, Jame Jam - 11/4/12
IAF highlights Hossein Mahjubi's 50 years of painting
Fifty years of Hossein Mahjubi's achievements in painting was commemorated during a ceremony at the Iranian Artists Forum on Sunday evening. Mahjubi, a number of cultural figures, and his fans and colleagues attended the ceremony. - 10/30/12
Met curator Sheila Canby to lecture on Safavid era artist in Tehran
Sheila Canby, the curator of the Department of Islamic Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is scheduled to deliver a lecture about the Safavid era artist Aliquli Jabbadar (1666-1694) at Tehran's Art Study Center on Monday. - 10/27/12
Lost in Paradise: Five Artists from the Middle East and Asia Explore the Theme of Spirituality
Five artists from Asia and the Middle East, each with their own cultural, social and religious backgrounds, approach the theme of spirituality in this new exhibition from A&E projects. - 10/24/12
Abbas Kowsari's Exhibition of new series of Photographs: Light
Abbas Kowsari has been fascinated with two particular nights of celebrations of Shite rituals, the night of Ashura and the birth of the twelfth Emam. For three years he has taken photographs of the decorations that cover our cities in those nights; lamps, colored papers and arches of triumph. - 10/23/12
Where is paradise?: The Thirty Seventh Environmental Art Festival
Paradise - Polour: Polour is a village in the province of Tehran, Iran. The village is also a starting point for an excursion to the Damavand Mountain. -Ahmad Nadalian - 10/19/12
New Constellations: 1st Screening of Contemporary Iranian Video Art in LA at the IAAB Conference
New Constellations programmed by Amirali Ghasemi and Sanaz Mazinani, to be presented at The IAAB Conference, is the first screening of contemporary Iranian video art in Los Angeles of its kind. - 10/11/12
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art enriches collection with another Iranian artwork
"Family Paradise" was painted in 2008 and is part of the Burning Wings series in which Farah Osuli explores aspects of the unfortunate situation of women and questions of identity. - 10/11/12
Exhibition in London: Abbas Akhavan's "Study for a Garden"
Delfina Foundation is delighted to present Study for a Garden, the first UK solo exhibition by Toronto-based Iranian artist Abbas Akhavan. During a 10-week residency at Delfina Foundation, Akhavan has produced a series of installations in response to the Foundation's adjacent property at 31 Catherine Place. - 10/2/12
Photos: Third Largest Persian Carpet Unveiled
The third largest Persian carpet was unveiled in Tehran International Fairground on Friday. The carpet measures 2400 square meter. 400 weavers worked for about 16 months to complete this magnificent piece. - 10/1/12
Iranian Art That Transcends Politics
Rumi, whose 800 year-old poems are, coincidentally, the most widely read throughout the United States, remains deeply revered within all strata of Iranian society. His teaching of humanity as Heech, or nothingness, is most prominently conveyed through the work of contemporary Iranian artist and sculptor Parviz Tanavoli. -Roshanak Taghavi, Al-Monitor - 9/23/12
Postcards for peace from 20 countries on display at Tehran center
Tehran's Arasbaran Cultural Center is playing host to an exhibition of postcards for peace, which have been created by people from 20 different countries. - 9/23/12
Photos: Fourth international sculpture symposium kicks off in Tehran
The fourth edition of International Sculpture Symposium has kicked off in the Iranian capital of Tehran presenting creations of many artists from across the globe. - 9/17/12
Exhibition: Homa Arkani's "Share Me"
These images of young girls who have so thoroughly immersed in their fantastic world demonstrate the crisis of identity amongst the middle-class new generation of Iranian women. As one treads a path among these flamboyant features one easily identifies them as stereotypical adolescent city girl in today Iran... - 9/7/12
"Horse and Rider" of Tehran museum under threat: Sculptor
A sculptor and expert on bronze statues has said that the Italian artist Marino Marini's "Horse and Rider", which is located in the Sculpture Garden of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), is under threat because of a casting defect. - 9/1/12
Young foreign artists to gather at Iranian festival
Thirty-eight foreign artists from over 20 countries have been invited to the 19th International Visual Arts Festival for Youth, which will open in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan on September 4. - 8/29/12
"Made in Iran" and a Studio Visit with Icy and Sot
Both born in the 1980s, Iranian Street Artists Icy & Sot are equally fans and loyal students of all the stencil techniques that have characterized the western scene in the last decade. What's fascinating in this story is that, despite creating work on the street since 2005, neither brother has been able to attend their own gallery show in person outside of Iran until this week in New York. -Huffington Post - 8/23/12
Iranian Art Exhibit in Escondido, California: "Fresh Air"
Persian Cultural Center (PCC) in San Diego and Mehr International Cultural Center (M. Gallery) are holding an art exhibition entitled "Fresh Air" at "M. Gallery" in Escondido, California. - 8/20/12
Photo exhibit to raise funds for Iran quake victims
Tehran's Eyvan Gallery will be playing host to a photo exhibition today to raise funds for the victims of the two successive earthquakes that hit regions in the northwestern Iranian province of East Azarbaijan on Saturday. - 8/15/12
Photos of zurkhaneh sports on display at Tehran center
A collection of photos displaying athletes in some zurkhanehs, traditional Iranian sports clubs, is on display in an exhibition at Tehran's Arasbaran Cultural Center. - 8/10/12
Persian, Mughal Worlds Are Focus of Painting Exhibition
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's exhibition of Persian and Mughal paintings, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran, displays works from the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler museums of Asian art. The exhibition showcases ways the Mughal emperors in India drew on their Persian heritage and culture, carrying it forward into a transformative artistic style. -Lea Terhune, IIP - 8/9/12
Former queen of Iran on assembling Tehran's art collection
Situated in the heart of the Iranian capital, Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art is home to the world's most valuable collection of western modern art outside Europe and the United States. The rarely shown collection, which includes works by giants such as Pollock, Warhol and Bacon, was bought under the supervision of Farah Pahlavi -Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Guardian - 8/2/12
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