Parviz Tanavoli is a contemporary Iranian artist, best known for his bronze sculptures combining the semiotics ... he studied at the Brera Academy of Milan in Italy until 1959 before going on to teach ...

In a renaissance of contemporary Iranian art, Bahman Mossavar-Rahmani, founder and CIO of UAS Asset Management, sits down with Barron's Sonia Talati to discuss his passion for collecting art that ...

The Israeli director managed to convince Nafisi of his vision—and then to secure the funding, assemble a suitable Iranian cast, and settle on Rome as the shooting location, given that Tehran was not ...

Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, Shahbazi received her formal training at the Fachhochschule Dortmund and the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich. The artist’s works have been exhibited at the ...

Contemporary artists in Iran played a "pivotal role" in helping turn a "nationwide protest into a cultural uprising that resonated across the globe", wrote AFI's Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston ...

The Tehran Auction, conceived in June 2012, is described by the organizers as a national endeavor to fulfill the increasing interest in modern and contemporary Iranian art and to facilitate the ...

The 2008 photo Miss Hybrid by Shirin Aliabadi is one of the more modern pieces in the show, which takes visitors on a journey through Iran's art history The V&A museum's Epic Iran show is the ...