SHAHROKH HATAMI

Shahrokh Hatami (1928-2017).

AMITIS MOTEVALLI

Amitis Motevalli (b. 1969).

ABBAS KOWSARI

Abbas Kowsari (b. 1970).

NASIR AL-MULK MOSQUE

The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque  is a traditional mosque in Shiraz, Iran. It was built from 1876 to 1888, by the order of Mirzā Hasan Ali (Nasir ol Molk), a Qajar ruler. The designers were Mohammad Hasan-e-Memār, an Iranian architect, and Mohammad Rezā Kāshi-Sāz-e-Širāzi.

MOMA takes a stand

MOMA – The Museum of Modern Art — in one of the strongest protests yet by a major cultural institution, has reconfigured its fifth-floor permanent-collection galleries — interrupting its narrative of Western Modernism, from Cézanne through World War II — to showcase contemporary art from Iran, Iraq and Sudan, whose citizens are subject to the ban.

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LAURENCE RASTI

Laurence Rasti (b. 1990).