By bnm Tehran bureau Iranian financial authorities have allowed artists and art owners to use certified artworks as collateral for banking, following regulatory changes and coordination between ...

Day 26 of 100 Doodle Flags! Kauczuk draws the flag of Iran and hides 3 interesting facts about the country in the doodle art.

Still capture from Sheida Soleimani’s video work within her solo exhihition, Medium of Exchange (all images courtesy the artist) The timing is uncanny, in light of President Trump’s recent decision to ...

Last weekend, the Ovissi Boutique held a soft opening at the Reston Town Center. With many current featured artists and artisans on hand, Maryam Ovissi opened the boutique to highlight her father’s ...

Introduction. Celebrating the career, writings and exhibitions of Linda Komaroff -- chapter 1. A Mongol historian looks at art: Abuʹl-Qasim Qashani's description of Sultaniyya / Sheila S. Blair and ...

Purvis Young, “Sometimes I Get Emotion from the Game” (early 1980s), 12 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. Acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. (courtesy the Souls Grown Deep ...

"During the course of the 19th century, a relatively modern medium entered the private space of Iranian houses of the wealthy and became a popular feature of interior design in Persia. This was print ...

The 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests erupted in Iran following the shocking death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, in police custody. Like many Iranians in the diaspora, illustrator Roshi ...

LONDON — Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary works out of a luminous studio in a leafy corner of southwest London. Her misty abstract paintings evoke the galaxy, the cosmos, the afterlife. To make them, ...

IRAN, a land with a civilization stretching back more than five thousand years, has always been one of the most significant cultural and civilizational centers in West Asia and the world. With ancient ...