Janet Rady’s artist of this month is Hojat Amani. You can read the Art Radar interview with Amani here. It describes Amani’s newest “Still Life” series and how the artist “deftly blends contemporary Western pop culture with the Persian script and classical motifs”. Best of all, there’s a “proof that angels do exist”. But images …
Parviz Tanovoli is the father of modern Iranian sculpture – and there’s currently a groundbreaking retrospective in the Davis Museum including many of his Heeches (Heech means ‘nothing’ in Persian). Hear more in /see some images from the show here. As Tanavoli says: ““Heech has multiple layers of meaning – in Persian Sufism it has …
The dust in Ahvaz is at a record 66 times greater than the legal limit: with particles in the air reaching 9985 micrograms per cubic meter. It’s been dusty in Ahvaz for some time – the city is the most polluted in the world according to World Health Organization (2013) data. But recently the situation …
This week a sand cat was released from a Bustard trap in Khorasan. The rare cat received immediate medical treatment, and was released back into the wild the same day. Its capture triggered a search-and-destroy mission for other poachers’ traps in the area. Read more, in Persian, here. Sand cats are the only cat found …
Reza Haeri’s fascinating and very funny film Final Fitting is about a tailor who makes garments for the top religious men in Iran. There are very few films about fashion for Muslim men, but this really gets behind the scenes – showing Ayatollahs being measured and fitted, interspersed with on- and off-duty images of the …