Visual

Hamidreza Shafiei and the Distinctive Women in the Paintings of Afshin Pirhashemi at Boom Gallery, Tehran

Afshin Pirhashemi is a singular figure in the Middle Eastern art scene. For three consecutive years, he was listed among the world’s 500 most expensive…

Omar El-Nagdi and the Femininity of Civilization in the Raha Gallery Collection

Omar El-Nagdi’s painting La Pharaonne forms a bridge between Pharaonic mythology, contemporary reality, and the shared global concerns of humanity. One of the…

IranArt ’s Video Report from the Launch of the Sadegh Tabrizi Book

New Oil? An Analysis of the Art Economy in the Middle East by Seyedmohammad Omrany

Over the past decade, the economy of visual arts in the Middle East has shifted from a marginal and largely symbolic sphere to a significant component of the…

Hamidreza Shafiei and the Mythic Narrative of Behzad Shishegaran’s Portraits of Ahmad Shamlou

See: Mojdeh Gallery Unveils the Sadegh Tabrizi Book at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Khashayar Farhat at Mojdeh Gallery, Tehran/Photos

Hamidreza Shafiei and the Paintings of Jamshid HaghighatShenas at Cama Gallery, Tehran / Photos

Mahboubeh Kazemi: The Middle East Must Recognize Zinat al-Sadat Emami — The Third Vertex of the Triangle Formed by Monir Farmanfarmaian and Fakhr-al-Nisa’ Zeid

The world does not know that the so-called male-dominated Middle East also produced remarkable women artists a century ago—women whose artistic creations have…

Faramarz Pilaram and the Sacred Rotation in the Raha Gallery Collection

This painting by the late master Faramarz Pilaram is a rare example of the fusion of script, color, rhythm, texture, and ritual in modern Iranian art. It…