and it is only when you familiarize yourself with the history of Persian photography [that you can] appreciate Ghadirian’s attention to detail,” Kristen Gresh, the curator of the touring ...

Erfan Sharifpour is a master of the ancient Persian lute, known as the tar, and one of those intimate, underground artists that plays small venues and houses around the city. Erfan stops by ...

At 15, she started on the tar, a six-stringed Persian instrument, with each of the strings paired. “I fell in love with the tar at the age of 15 and practiced almost eight hours a day,” she ...