Iran

Other highlights include a documentary on the political and religious conflicts in one Iranian family and Elizabeth Willis’s new book on US pioneerism

We speak to the Iranian artist, a highlight of the Focus section from Frieze Los Angeles 2023, about her experience as part of the Los Angeles diaspora and making work in the wake of traumatic news from back home

Sean Burns speaks to the artist about the current protests in her home country and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents

Meridian Payseno talks with artist Malekeh Nayiny about how her whimsical reworkings of old family photographs uncover truths in imagined memories

A free exhibition at No.9 Cork Street, exploring the many aspects of violence in Iran and the Middle East

Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away

It’s a refusal to learn anything about a culture that could be obliterated

In further news: British Council condemns curator’s imprisonment in Iran; Australia’s first gallery showing all women artists set to open

In further news: Activists protest Luke Willis Thompson at Turner Prize exhibition opening; Helena Almeida (1934–2018)

Michelle Orange traces the recent history of Iranian films, from Jafar Pahahi’s Taxi (2015) to Mani Haghighi’s Pig (2018)