Joobin Bekhrad catches up with Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand (a.k.a. ‘TVAT’) to discuss her new work, as well as all things Sex, Drugs, and Gol-o-Bolbol™
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REORIENT Radio - Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar
What on earth is Sassan doing promoting contemporary Iranian art in the south of France, and why is he so frustrated? Joobin Bekhrad finds out in the fifth episode of REORIENT Radio.
Mea Culpa
‘It reads as a poem for those who cannot shake the feeling of having left something behind’ - Sayantan Mukhopadhyay on Mea Culpa, Ghazel’s latest solo exhibition in Dubai
Face-Off
Aysha Khan examines the effacement of the female voice in the literary traditions of the Persianate world, from the days of the Mughals to the present
Initials B.B.
Joobin Bekhrad talks to France-based artist and entrepreneur Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar about his new foundation and his ambitions to shake up the contemporary Iranian art scene
Like a Rolling Stone
Mina Khanlarzadeh looks at the tasnif genre and how Iran’s Velshodegan have been shaking things up in the realm of classical Iranian music
Facing History
Joan Hua examines the oeuvre of Shirin Neshat and her ongoing retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum marking the end of a chapter in her artistic career
Hajji Baba of New York City
‘Parviz Khatibi loved his country enough to tell it the truth’ - Leila Jarman and Caitlin Carlson reflect on the trials and triumphs of an Iranian entertainment icon
Routes of Modernism
Aria Fani on the life and accomplishments of leading Iranian literary scholar Karim Emami (1930 - 2005), and a new ‘illuminating’ English-language collection of his writings
The King
Dreams, decrepitude, and despotism - Amir-Hussein Radjy examines Iranian-Dutch writer Kader Abdolah’s latest novel about the legendary Iranian monarch Nasereddin Shah