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For this rolling feature Nico Kos-Earle has chosen 15 international artists working in various mediums to look out for in 2023.

The art fair in Paris has expanded its scope, bringing Iranian contemporary artists and galleries to a platform called “Tehran Now.”

Few in the West will have been to Tehran. We are either likely to think of an exotic Persia full of sultans and hareems

Ask a science communicator how old their field is. They might say a few decades, or even centuries, because they’re thinking about the Western science communication tradition associated with a scientist-public gap. These days, we almost exclusively associate science communication with Western science. Yet humans have always communicated knowledge about the world within their own societies and to others. There’s evidence of this going back tens of thousands of years. Society today should r...

By Susan Acret  |  Tehran, 26 October 2015 Bahar Samadi, still from film  101, 2012, 3’ 34’’, black & white found footage, DV PAL 4:3. Courtesy the artist. With the recent nuclear rapprochement, Iran is on the brink of the end of sanctions. This, along with new-found freedoms that arrived with the government of Hassan Rouhani in 2013, has fostered a sense of optimism. It seems a fortuitous time to visit and I am keen to see how the city’s artists are depicting this shift. O...