Required Reading

This week: Iranian artists remember the victims of the Minab airstrike, a trip through Alabama’s Barn Quilt Trail, Kansas City’s bygone lesbian haven, Erling Haaland memes, and more.

Required Reading
Last month, artists gathered at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art to adorn vases with portraits of girls with wings, joyous figures against fields of color, and children growing as flowers in a garden. "An Embroidery on Minab" created a space for collective grief and memory through art, inviting everyday people to paint portraits in honor of the 156 teachers and students killed by the United States's airstrikes on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in February. One artist rendered a girl swimming in a sea of her own tears, peering out at the world through a red book and hosting a flock of doves in a basket balanced on her head, as an olive tree flourishes nearby. (photo Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)