IFP - Iranian graphic artist Carmel Maleki, who was expected to represent Iran in an international event to reconstruct the quake-hit city of LAquila in Italy, has been denied a visa to visit the European country. Maleki is among the graphic artists who were picked up from across the world to take part in the international Rebirth project ...

The Guardian - Iranhas opened its first museum dedicated to a solo female artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who has received widespread international attention during decades of exile. The nonagenarian doyenne of Iranian art and friend of Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, had her first US solo museum exhibition at the Guggenheim ...