The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art commenced its activities in 1977. Since then, Iran has witnessed significant political, social, and geopolitical upheavals. During certain periods, the Museum has actively engaged with society as an institution, while in others, it has maintained its distance as an artistic entity. The following text presents some of the Museum’s activities duri...

This article provides a brief overview of the Iranian art market’s performance since 2020, a sensitive period marked by successive social, political, and economic crises that have shaped the domestic art scene. The focus is on the statistics and results of Tehran Auction, the only publicly available official source, showing that the market’s lowest performance coincided with the cou...

Trench art refers to objects and handmade artifacts created during wartime, often using leftover materials such as bullets, shell casings, mud, wood, or even fruit pits. These works blur the boundaries between survival, memory, and artistic expression. Mary Walling Blackburn’s Wound, Whittle, and Peach examines these marginal forms through historical and theoretical perspectives, hi...