manpodcast: Shirin Neshat, Ramin, 2012. This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features New York-based artist Shirin Neshat, who joins me to discuss the art she’s made in response to Iran’s Green Revolution and to the Arab Spring. “The Book of Kings,” an exhibition of Neshat’s work is on view at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York through February 11. A detail from Neshat’s My House is Burning Down (2012) is featured in this week’s banner.  Neshat has been the subject of major survey exhibitions at museums in Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Among many other honors, she won the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival for “Women Without Men” and the First International Award at the 1999 Venice Biennale. Next year the Detroit Institute of Arts will present a major retrospective of her work. To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. You can stream the program through the player below. In our conversation Neshat and I discuss: The passion she feels for her homeland of Iran even after having lived abroad for 37 years; The challenges inherent in making art for audiences in Iran and the Middle East when Neshat lives and shows in the West; The ways in which her art is seen in Iran today; How the uprisings in the Persian and Arab worlds motivated her newest work; and Why metaphor is such an important strategy for her. […] For images of the works discussed on this week’s program, click here. More Neshat.
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Shirin Neshat, Ramin, 2012.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features New York-based artist Shirin Neshat, who joins me to discuss the art she’s made in response to Iran’s Green Revolution and to the Arab Spring. “The Book of Kings,” an exhibition of Neshat’s work is on view at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York through February 11. A detail from Neshat’s My House is Burning Down (2012) is featured in this week’s banner. 

Neshat has been the subject of major survey exhibitions at museums in Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Among many other honors, she won the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival for “Women Without Men” and the First International Award at the 1999 Venice Biennale. Next year the Detroit Institute of Arts will present a major retrospective of her work.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. You can stream the program through the player below.

In our conversation Neshat and I discuss:

  • The passion she feels for her homeland of Iran even after having lived abroad for 37 years;
  • The challenges inherent in making art for audiences in Iran and the Middle East when Neshat lives and shows in the West;
  • The ways in which her art is seen in Iran today;
  • How the uprisings in the Persian and Arab worlds motivated her newest work; and
  • Why metaphor is such an important strategy for her. […]

For images of the works discussed on this week’s program, click here.

More Neshat.

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