Topic Archives: Iranian

Preview lots for the Ayyam Auctions The Young Collectors Auction until 16 January 2012, then head to Ayyam Art Center in Dubai the next day for the auction proper.

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In a TED Talks video posted in May 2011, Shirin Neshat tells the audience how, as an artist in exile, she was inspired by her home country and people there.

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Dubai gallery The Third Line announced in a recent newsletter that work by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Farmanfarmaian is a mosaic artist, often working mirrors, who has spent much of her prestigious artistic career in New York. She returned to Tehran in 2000 and continues her work from there. Continue reading →

Islamic art is moving into the contemporary realm. Award-winning Iranian artist Afruz Amighi exhibited Islamic-inspired work in Dubai earlier this year. Continue reading →

EMERGING ASIAN ARTISTS –  ART PRIZES   Four Asian artists were nominated for Pulse Awards at the PULSE art fair  which took place in New York City and Miami between 4-7 March 2010: Shun Duk Kang from Korea, Hiroshige Furuhaka … Continue reading →

CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART A Christies auction in Dubai set a new record for the price of a contemporary Arab artwork, fetching $662,500 for a double calligraphy piece by Egyptian artist Ahmed Mustafa titled “Remembrance and Gratitude.” Matoob Business reports Mustafa already held … Continue reading →

PHOTOGRAPHY MARKET TRENDS At a seminar held in London in September 2009 organised by ArtInsight three London-based photography market experts from a fund, a gallery and a major auction house shared their views on the most promising opportunities and interesting trends … Continue reading →

CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART For a revealing insight into contemporary art and its relationship with political and gender issues in Iran today, don’t miss this intriguing interview with Parastou Forouhar in which she describes how she challenges viewers to take a … Continue reading →

IRANIAN ART SURVEY 56 contemporary Iranian artists are presented in the attention-grabbing and timely Iran Inside Out exhibition at Chelsea Art Museum in New York (June 26 – Sep 5 2009). Surprisingly – or perhpas not – only 35 artists in the show reside inside Iran … Continue reading →

IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION US New York’s Chelsea Art Museum is holding its “groundbreaking” exhibition Iran Inside Out (26 June to 5 September 2009) which features 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 21 others living in the diaspora. We are promised a ”multifarious portrait of … Continue reading →

ABRAAJ CAPITAL ART Unlike other art prizes, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize is awarded for art project proposals rather than work already produced. By recognising the latent potential of ideas and providing funding for the winners, the Abraaj Art Prize … Continue reading →

ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK 2009 For the first time since its inception in 2004 Cambodian and Tibetan artists will be on show in the 200 artist, 8 day event to be held in New York May 10-18th.  But this is … Continue reading →

EMERGING ARTISTS ASIA Trend: Generational grouping of art The New Museum in New York chooses 8 artists from Asia and a total of 50 globally, to describe the next generation of emerging artists (born after 1976) as part of its … Continue reading →

    SAATCHI MIDDLE EAST ART SHOW Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London to 6 May 2009 Advertising mogul and art patron Saatchi is a master at generating extensive high profile media coverage for his shows giving us an uncommon opportunity to synthesise … Continue reading →

FEMALE IRANIAN ART The Masques of Shahrazad to 9-14 March 2009 at Candlestar GalleryEvolution and Revolution of three generations of Iranian women artists An exhibition featuring work by 28 Iranian women artists runs at The Mall Galleries, London, 9 – … Continue reading →

MIDDLE EASTERN ART BEIJING Shirin Neshat Women Without Men Faurschou Gallery Beijing to January 18 2009 As unlikely as it seems given the current political climate, many people in the art world are now asking: is contemporary Middle Eastern art … Continue reading →

    MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Helpful sources of objective and rigorous judgement, museums  provide an independent voice in an art world populated by more unscrupulous personalities and poor research than is ideal.  But how can we find out what the top museums are acquiring and what … Continue reading →

    IRANIAN ART The New York Times has written a useful summary survey about art from Iran, the market for it over the last two years and what has been happening in recent auctions. Artists worked in relative obscurity … Continue reading →

IRANIAN ART PHOTOGRAPHY FILM WOMEN 27 September 2008 – 10 January 2009 30 Years of Solitude is a survey show of photography and film by some of Iran’s most talented women artists and is the first exhibition in the UK … Continue reading →

MIDDLE EASTERN ART A quick glance at three interesting shows in Dubai this autumn throws up a plethora of talent.   Huda Lutfi at The Third Line 13 November – 4 December 2008 One of Egypt’s most notable contemporary artists, … Continue reading →

IRANIAN ARTIST Ardeshir Mohassess, an Iranian artist long resident in America who pushed the art of the cartoon to almost Surrealist satire of his native land in work both popular and profound died of a heart attack on Oct. 9 in Manhattan. … Continue reading →

MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS Acquired as a gift by The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection: Akram Zaatari born 1966 Nature Morte, 2008 Video projection 11 minutes Dimensions variable Ed 2/5 + 1 AP Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg Akram … Continue reading →

COLLECTOR SHOW CHINESE ART Influential British art collector Charles Saatchi is back after three years out of the limelight, opening a major new gallery in central London showcasing some of China’s hottest artists reports Reuters. The man who introduced the … Continue reading →

  ACQUISITIONS MIDDLE EASTERN ART As financial markets roil , art collectors seeking a safe haven eye up opportunities in the Middle East. If anything, some players expect an even stronger market in the Middle East than in China, because so many of … Continue reading →

EMERGING ARTIST IRAN Following his recent exhibition ‘Stitched’ in London, Iranian artist Farhad Ahrarnia is featured by Middle East specialist art magazine Canvas as ‘one to watch’. Born in 1971 in Shiraz, Iran and educated at the Northern Media School … Continue reading →