Iran

Tate Modern screens Shirin Neshat’s 1999 film ‘Soliloquy’

06/01/2021

A rarely seen video work by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is revived from the Tate's collection, and will be free to view (when the museum reopens) until the beginning of February...

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Tehran’s Art Fair Opens Despite Growing Tensions With US

24/06/2019

The second edition of Teer Art Fair aims to foster domestic Iranian art scene at a time when international sales are increasingly difficult for the country's galleries....

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Art and Public Morality in Iran

01/01/2019

Even those who have renounced the Ayatollah’s regime and live largely secular, Western lives carry within them a time-consciousness split between ancient Persia and contemporary Iran...

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Golnaz Fathi: Calligraphy, movement in Iranian art

29/12/2018

The art of Iran is intrinsically bound with religion and the calligraphic interpretation of their sacred texts. Golnaz Fathi...

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Tarantist

Death (Sentence) Metal: Not a Crime [Tarantist]

15/11/2017

Iranian Metal goes one step further - TarantisT now sing in Farsi...

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Iran, exquisite roof

The real cost of music?

18/09/2017

Suffering for your art is common practice, but is it worth dying for?...

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Heterochrome, Melancholia

To Die For? Iranian Metallers Heterochrome Offer Melancholia Against All Odds

06/09/2017

Progressive metal from Iran. Now that's extreme....

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sea snakes

‘A thousand thousand slimy things…’: Sea Snakes in Iran

10/10/2016

Iranian coastal waters: New home to a rarely seen venomous sea snake ...

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Desiree Akhavan in Appropriate Behaviour 2

Don’t give me your lesbian orphan propaganda! (Appropriate Behaviour)

28/06/2015

Appropriate Behaviour is indication of an exceptionally strong new filmmaking talent....

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