Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is taking on a subject close to home for her new film, which is debuting at Los Angeles’s Broad Museum in October. Titled Land of Dreams, the film is a rumination on ...
Shirin Neshat’s biggest exhibition to date opened last month at the Broad in Los Angeles. Titled “Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again,” the photographs and videos on view are often informed by ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The films and photographs of internationally celebrated artist Shirin Neshat are opening on exhibit at The Broad. It is the largest exhibition of her nearly 30-year career. The ...
In 1975 Shirin Neshat’s parents sent her from Iran to live with her older sister in a cramped Westwood apartment. She immediately fell into depression. Then only 17, she didn’t speak a word of English ...
A new exhibition of female Iranian artists curated by photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat explores the nexus between politics, protest and culture. Christiane speaks with Neshat alongside another ...
Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is known for her images of women that pose probing questions about the female body within Islam and Iranian culture. This hour, she reflects on her life and work in exile.
On the eve of the largest and most comprehensive survey of her 30-year career, photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat admits to surprising herself. From her landmark “Women of Allah” — ...
LOS ANGELES — The title of Shirin Neshat’s exhibition at Los Angeles’s Broad Museum, I Will Greet the Sun Again, is taken from a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, which appears as inscription in several of ...
In my artworks I approach beauty as a way to escape the mundane. Beauty isn’t just the physicality of my characters, but their raw emotions, dignity and humanity. As an Iranian, I was born into a ...
Shirin Neshat is perhaps the most famous living Iranian artist in the world. She has lived in the United States, in exile from her native Iran, for most of her adult life. Neshat was born in Qazvin, ...