Opinion
The Gestural Feminism of Iranian Women
The student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism.
Tehran
News
Tehran Art Museum Reports 30 Missing Paintings
The artworks’ whereabouts remain unknown after the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum lent them in July.
Art
Why on Earth Did Tehran’s Contemporary Art Museum Plant Vegetables in Its Yard?
For critics, the now-removed vegetable garden symbolized the museum’s decades-long decline.
News
Tehran's Contemporary Art Museum Has a Serious Bug Problem
A video showing insects crawling inside a framed photograph by artists Bernd and Hilla Becher caused uproar, and disgust, online.
Art
Two Artists Attempt to Collaborate Across Continents, Travel Bans and All
With “The Other Apartment,” a joint project by Jon Rubin and Sohrab Kashani, located in both Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iranians and Americans can attend events and experience the space together, in real time.
Art
Tehran Diary: The Lives Projected onto Public and Private Spaces
TEHRAN — Traveling from the center to the north of Tehran reveals the city’s multiple elevations: topographical, architectural, and economic.
Art
Tehran Diary: A Largely Local Art Scene Begins to Open Up
TEHRAN — My first impression of the Iranian capital is one of vagueness in a difficult topography, as the city sprawls in all directions and stands at different elevations surrounded by mountains.
Art
Cinematic Illusions of Destruction
The dismal, desert landscape in Wawrzyniec Kolbusz's latest photographic series looks much like the bombed-out terrain we often see in documentary war images.