Finally, a solo Darvish Fakhr
The extraordinary painterly explorations by Darvish Fakhr finally get a dedicated exposure in the artist’s solo exhibition at EOA.Projects, aka Edge of Arabia, in southwest London’s slowly regenerating Battersea Thames riverside, writes SAJID RIZVI. It’s a tightly edited, evocative oeuvre that’s on view at the gallery, a culmination of several years of work informed or influenced by visits to native Iran....
Lida Sherafatmand: Early Milestones of an Inner Journey
The subtitle of Lida Sherafatmand’s exhibition at the Roerich Family Museum and Institute, St Petersburg, references an extraordinary citizen of the world, in many ways like Lida herself, in the person of Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих, 9 October, 1874-13 December, 1947), writes SAJID RIZVI. Again, like Lida Sherafatmand, an itinerant artist (in the best sense of that phrase) Roerich demonstrated an...
Book Review: Ancient Persia, by Josef Wiesehöfer
Ancient Persia, by Josef Wiesehöfer, surely must rate as one of the most underrated books on Iran, perhaps because it announces itself as a book about ‘Persia’ rather than Iran of the news headlines. It further delivers—unintentionally, no doubt—a disincentive for those keen to learn more about contemporary and modern Iran. Yes, the one often cited in the West’s War on Terror and what precedes or follows that...
Iran in the Service of World Peace
Few books published in English in Iran under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi offer a wider window on epochal events of the period, and subsequent events leading up to the Islamic Republic in 1979, than this tome by Zaven N Davidian, writes SAJID RIZVI. Published in 1971 under the aegis of the University of Isfahan Department of International Relations, Iran in the service of world peace was among a handful of titles rushed out in English...
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