The Iranian artist Shirin Neshat has spent her career documenting the struggle for civil liberties that still rages throughout much of the Islamic world, approaching every project with an exacting yet ...

Shirin Neshat talks about her art, life and new body of work at the Robert Rauschenberg 19th Street Project Space in New York. Neshat was recently commissioned by the Rauschenberg Foundation to create ...

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For the last 30 years, Shirin Neshat has used different media to explore complicated political realities, with a particular focus on Iran and America. Her videos, poetry and photos examine the borders ...

“Shirin Neshat: Facing History,” a major exhibition of the work of the Iranian-born, New York-based video artist, photographer and filmmaker, runs May 18–Sept. 20 at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum ...

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 ...

Portraits of New Mexico residents from Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams, an installation at Istanbul’s Dirimart gallery, link America’s future to Iran’s past. Nazli Erdemirel I think that fiction can be ...

Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat’s dark kohl-lined eyes are immediately recognizable. Now she is bringing their gaze on Iranian and Arab women’s resistance to oppression to this most political of ...

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 ...

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi, Persia, 1207–1273 Shirin Neshat, Iranian-born though living in New York, has captured audiences ...

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian artist based in New York. Her upcoming survey “Shirin Neshat: Facing History” takes a sweeping look at her output and will present her iconic black-and-white photographic ...

Shirin Neshat and Shahzia Sikander are two critically acclaimed Asian American artists whose work examines, among other things, the themes of gender, Islam, tradition and identity. The two artists ...