Kevin Schwartz looks at the allure of Persian nasta’liq calligraphy in the ateliers and courts of the Persianate world, as well as to a new generation of Iranian artists
All posts tagged “exhibition”
A Thousand Years of the Persian Book
Kevin Schwartz on an exhibition at Washington, DC’s Library of Congress celebrating a millennium of Persian textual production from Iran and beyond
Here and Elsewhere
Sarah Hassan’s reflections on a ‘long-overdue’ exhibition of contemporary art from the Arab world on display at New York City’s New Museum
Rumour Has It
Joobin Bekhrad talks to Lebanese artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige about their work and their latest exhibition, I Must First Apologise …, currently on display at France’s Villa Arson
Bed of Broken Mirrors
A chat with Iranian-American artist Asad Faulwell about his Les Femmes d’Alger series and the role played by women in the Algerian War of Independence
The Strange Fruits of a Fascination
A review of the recent Sehnsucht Persien exhibition in Switzerland, which explored the longstanding mutual fascination between Iran and Europe through art
Points of Departure
‘Palestine … is a possibility, a potentiality constantly on the threshold of physical reality’ - Rima Chahrour on the ‘Points of Departure’ exhibition at the ICA
Peace Out
Peace, love, and baklava - Sarah Zakzouk on the recent ‘Peace, from the Bottom of My Art’ exhibition of contemporary Iranian artists in London
Resilience and Light
‘Zurob’s works explore the way in which exile renders certain modes of travel irrelevant and eliminates the possibility of certain shared spaces’
Journey to the East
A conversation with renowned Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli about Safar, a major upcoming exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern art in Canada