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ROOTED/UPROOTED: TREES AND ARTISTS AT ELGA WIMMER PCC GALLERY

By Nancy Nesvet

Rooted/UpRooted, curated by Roya Khadjavi and Massoud Nader, which is on view from November 12 through 25 at Elga Wimmer PCC Gallery, New York, New York, connects trees, whose roots […]

Artemis Akchoti Shahbazi, The Rising Sun (Installation detail from ”Executive Order Reimposing Certain Sanctions with Respect to Iran” + Wearing Our Collective Punishment, 2019, mixed media, 117 x 41 cm.
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COLLECTIVE IDENTITY: MUSA CONNECTS OUR COMMON NARRATIVE

By Elizabeth Michelman

This July, “Collective Punishment,” works by 10 international artists curated by Roya Amigh, an Iranian artist now living in Boston, will be on view at the Musa Collective Gallery in […]

"The 'Door to Hell.'" In 1971, Soviet geologists were drilling in the Turkmen desert when the land gave way beneath them, leaving a seventy-meter-wide, noxious gas–emitting crater. They ignited the gas to try to burn off the excess, but the crater has been ablaze ever since. Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2012. Courtesy Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. © Chloe Dewe Mathews.
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SHAPED BY OIL: MATHEWS DOCUMENTS LIFE IN THE CASPIAN STATES

By Isabel Barbi

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews brings the environmental and cultural facets of the five countries bordering the Caspian Sea to viewers in the recently-opened exhibition, “Caspian: The Elements.” In October 2018, […]