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Iran sets sights on cultural projection through vibrant contemporary art
Jan16

Iran sets sights on cultural projection through vibrant contemporary art

Iran has set sights on reaching out to the international community through a major cultural initiative that draws on the remarkable rise of its modern and contemporary art globally, both in its aesthetic appreciation and the marketplace. Although ostensibly an independent private sector initiative, the Contemporary and Modern Art (CAMA) project’s ambitious cultural outreach has the hallmarks of a finely nuanced diplomatic...

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Adib Rostami in performance
Jun10

Adib Rostami in performance

It’s a paradox of frequent or recurrent troubles in the Middle East that an international diaspora continues to spawn or uncover new artistic talent in music, theatre and the visual arts in the West or the wider world at large. Adib Rostami is one such discovery for London. Both a music industry management student and a music practitioner, Rostami has earned fame and is well on way to creating his own space in the...

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Homage to Abbas Kiarostami, mystic moviemaker
Jul05

Homage to Abbas Kiarostami, mystic moviemaker

Abbas Kiarostami, artist, poet, philosopher and moviemaker, has died after a battle with gastrointestinal cancer. In 2005 he featured in a special Eastern Art Report tribute, Abbas Kiarostami in Eastern Art Report. One of Kiarostami’s most celebrated works, the 1997 film Taste of Cherry, was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. “Abbas Kiarostami, who had travelled to France for treatment, has died,” the...

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A Horse by a Pond and Other Congruities in  Medieval Iranian Ceramic Decoration: Abstract for lecture
Nov25

A Horse by a Pond and Other Congruities in Medieval Iranian Ceramic Decoration: Abstract for lecture

Abstract by Dr Oya Pancaroğlu, received and published 25 November 2014, of a forthcoming lecture entitled ‘A Horse by a Pond and Other Congruities in  Medieval Iranian Ceramic Decoration.’ A significant proportion of Iranian ceramics painted in the luster and mina’i techniques between the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries were decorated with figural subjects.  While the majority of these can be described as...

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Ceramic focus in Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture
Nov16

Ceramic focus in Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture

An early 13th century Iranian ceramic plate that has been the focus of speculation over the years by academics far and wide is one of the highlights of The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture on 3 December 2014. Dr Oya Pancaroğlu, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, will deliver the lecture, ‘A Horse by a Pond and Other Congruities in Medieval Iranian...

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