The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Tehran-based artist Gohar Dashti. Her work is on view now in two exhibitions: “She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World” is on view at the Museum of...

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Tehran-based artist Gohar DashtiHer work is on view now in two exhibitions: “She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World” is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition was curated by Kristen Gresh and will be up through January 12, 2014. Amazon offers the show's excellent catalogue for $30. At the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Dashti is in “About Face: Contemporary Portraiture,” a survey of photographic portraiture since 2000. The show was organized by Jane L. Aspinwall and April M. Watson and will be on view through January 19. 2014.

On this week’s MAN Podcast, Dashti tells us about her photographs and how they address being Iranian in the wake of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Dashti was born in the war’s first year and believes that her generation is substantially defined by that armed conflict. One of the pictures Dashti and host Tyler Green discuss is above: Untitled #2 (2008) from Dashti’s “Today’s Life and War” series. 

Please help us out! For about fifty weeks of the year we here at The Modern Art Notes Podcast want nothing more than for you to download and, hopefully, enjoy the show. But for a couple weeks each September we ask for a little bit of help: We offer up a survey that will help us learn about our audience and about ways to improve the program. It shouldn’t take more than five minutes. Please click here to fill it out!

Listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. See images of art discussed on the program. Also:

  1. hamkhoone reblogged this from manpodcast
  2. zembot reblogged this from manpodcast
  3. aburamadan reblogged this from mafishi
  4. ginloulou reblogged this from waesche-leinen
  5. run-on-and-on-blog reblogged this from herb-nice
  6. haricotsnoirs reblogged this from jada111
  7. waesche-leinen reblogged this from manpodcast
  8. manpodcast posted this