Articles

Anger Piled Atop Anger: Iran Diary

It’s not entirely clear to me when it all began.

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Girl on a Train: Getting Real with Fatima Daas

How do you sit with your ass between two chairs?

Momtaza Mehri

Laughter Was Our Inheritance: A Beirut Diary

On February 14, 2005, the day Rafik Hariri was assassinated, I was sent to confession for the first time.

Edwin Nasr

Spirit Riders: A Conversation with Mati Diop and Fatima Al Qadiri

In Dakar, the spirits ride at dusk.

Mati Diop, Fatima Al Qadiri, Negar Azimi, Babak Radboy

Trump Cocktail

Hello, I’m Hadi and this is my art.

Hadi Fallahpisheh

Rude Pieties: Six Glimpses of Hervé Guibert

A possible epitaph? Better to remain hungry than to renounce appetite.

Moyra Davey, Lia Gangitano, Bruce Hainley, Hedi El Kholti, Wayne Koestenbaum, Christine Pichini, Janique Vigier

Phoneme Riot: A Conversation with Nour Mobarak

The work of Los Angeles–based artist Nour Mobarak can be understood as an open-ended engagement with the promiscuous and constitutive power of words.

Jace Clayton

General Behavior

When two gooms get each other.

Farah Al Qasimi

South of Nothing: The Photographs of Soham Gupta

When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker.

Sukhdev Sandhu

Blasted: On Reza Abdoh’s Tight Right White

He ate camp and shat punk, his style a fizzing intestine stuffed with culture’s slime and scraps.

Tobi Haslett

We Are The Lines of Control: Unraveling Naeem Mohaiemen

Like a kite catching thermal winds.

Skye Arundhati Thomas

Matter and Mind

As a child in Tehran, the artist Shirin Sabahi took weekly painting classes not far from Park-e Laleh, or tulip park, in the sprawling city center.

Shirin Sabahi

The Night Journey of Ahmed Bouanani

In the stillness of the house at Aït Oumghar there are ghosts of cats.

Anna Della Subin

Book of Judges: Larry David and the War on the War on Comedy

The war of all against all against nothing

Gary Dauphin

Sweet Talk: A Conversation with Thuraya Al-Basqsami and Monira Al Qadiri

I feel like there’s a forest inside me, full of vegetation. Like a bowl of tabbouleh.

Monira Al Qadiri, Thuraya Al-Baqsami

Louvre Me Tender

Soft power plays

Rahel Aima

The Video People

1990s VHS Tehran Cinephiliacs

Media Farzin

Soft Dramaturgy: A Conversation with Lukas Duwenhögger, Part II

Precluding the indifferent, eradicating void and uninspiring vastness of, for instance, sunsets.

Bruce Hainley, Lukas Duwenhögger

Soft Dramaturgy: A Conversation with Lukas Duwenhögger, Part I

I hope these words make you cry.

Bruce Hainley, Lukas Duwenhögger

Mary Boone is Egyptian

“I find the whole notion of celebrity embarrassing.”

Gini Alhadeff