I find myself thinking of the Tehran International Film Festival, founded in 1972 and gone by 1977 after only six […]

Last night, Oscar night performed its usual sleight of hand: a blizzard of glamour, a few victors, a few bruised

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There is a particular kind of moral vandalism that only our era could mass-produce: dressing a claim in a photograph,

Yesterday, Golestan’s windows learned the oldest lesson in architecture: history isn’t “over,” it just sometimes arrives without taking its shoes

Iran Cannot Be a Matter of Indifference : Reflections on art, conscience, museums, and the limits of solidarity In February

به هنرمندان، خلاقان، و متخصصان میراث فرهنگیِ ایران، و به‌ویژه آنان که زیر فشار، زیر نظارت، زیر اندوه کار می‌کنند،