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Robert Adanto’s new documentary Pearls on the Ocean Floor features interviews with some of the most highly regarded Iranian female artists living and working in and outside the Islamic Republic, including Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat, Parastou Forouhar, Haleh Anvari, Sara Rahbar, Leila Pazooki, Afshan Ketabchi, Malekeh Nayiny, Bahar Sabzevari, Afsoon, Gohar Dashti, Pooneh Maghazehe, Mona Hakimi-Schuler, Taravat Talepasand, and Shadi Yousefian and Negar Ahkami. This screening takes place in conjunction with LACMA’s installation: Yek, Do, Se: Three Contemporary Iranian Artists , which features Yassaman Ameri, Bahman Jalali and Samira Alikhanzadeh.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Robert Adanto; Pearls on the Ocean Floor; Free; http://www.lacma.org

‘Yek, do, se’
Bahman Jalali, Yassaman Ameri, Samira Alikhanzadeh
10 July — 5 December, 2010
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exhibition curated by Carles Guerra and Thomas Keenan.
The exhibition includes work by Paul Lowe, Phil Collins, Gilles Peress, Gilles Saussier, Paul Fusco, Laura Kurgan, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg, Clemente Bernad, Allan Sekula, Hito Steyerl, Kadir van Lohuizen, Goran Galic and Gian-Reto Gredig, Renzo Martens, Peter Piller, Walid Raad, and Harun Farocki; archives collected by Mauro Andrizzi, Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Gaza Strip), Ariella Azoulay, Susan Meiselas, and Sohrab Mohebbi; music videos edited by Jonathan Cavender, Robbie Wright, and Shane McDonald.

La Virreina Centre de l'Image; Antiphotojournalism; Various; 5 July — 10 October 2010; http://antiphotojournalism.blogspot.com

Opening reception: Saturday, July 17th, 2010 6-9pm
LA<ART; Eleven Minus One; Amir Zaki; 17 July — 21 August, 2010; http://laxart.org

Fikret Atay, Bani Abidi, Maya Schindler, Eko Nugroho, Mounira al Solh and Noa Charuvi
Lombard-Freid Projects; Heat Wave; Various; 17 June — 30 July, 2010; http://www.lombard-freid.com

This group exhibition features New York-based artists who make work with, for, and about strangers. For each video, photograph, installation, and performance, artists cast out lines to remote neighbors who (wittingly or not) become active partners in creating the work. The resulting projects realign and sometimes undermine extant social relations and artistic intentions, engaging and confounding issues of authorship, exchange, generosity, and chance. Interactions both off site and within the gallery will continuously shape the exhibition’s content over the course of the show. The artists in the exhibition include: Einat Amir, Daniel Bozhkov, Xavier Cha, Eteam, Hope Hilton, Nancy Hwang, and Dave McKenzie.
Opening Reception: Friday, June 25, 6-8pm
The Kitchen; The absolutely Other; Various; 25 June — 7 August, 2010; http://www.thekitchen.org

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Christine Streuli, Timo Nasseri, Philip Taaffe. Opens 22 July, artists will be present.
Galerie Sfeir-Semler; Christine Streuli, Timo Nasseri, Philip Taaffe ; 22 July — 10 August, 2010; http://www.sfeir-semler.com

Bidoun Magazine and The Delfina Foundation, with the support of the British Council, are pleased to announce the launch of a unique residency opportunity in London to support new writing from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and the Palestinian Territories.
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Opening Reception of Beauty is Diamond at Laleh June Galerie Basel on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 4-9 PM.
Laleh June; Beauty is DIamond; Ed Ruscha, Behrouz Rae, Anoush Abrar, Geogre Condo, Marc Rembold, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Julian Schnabel, Dexter Dalwood, Claes Oldenburg, Philippe Zumstein, Peter Zimmermann; 18 May — 31 June, 2010; http://www.lalehjune.com

Four rare animations have been added to Malek Khorshid on BubuWeb. Ali Akbar Sadeghi (b. 1937) is an Iranian painter, animator and illustrator. A founding member of Kanoon, Sadeghi is most famous for his mixture of traditional miniature style with the surreal.
Special thanks to Arash Sadeghi!
Watch Ali Akbar Sadeghi animations on UbuWeb

From October 2009 through January 2010, four documentary photographers—Farhad Parsa, Arash Saedinia, Parisa Taghizadeh, and Ramin Talaie—focused their lenses on second-generation Iranian-Americans of Los Angeles, the world’s largest population of expatriate Iranians.
Fowler Museum at UCLA; Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles; 6 June — 22 August, 2010; Farhad Parsa, Arash Saedinia, Parisa Taghizadeh, Ramin Talaie; http://www.fowler.ucla.edu

Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art
Invisible Publics
May 23 – June 20 2010
10 Nabrawy Street off Champollion Street
Downtown Cairo, Egypt

The show will feature works and acts by Dora Garcia, Sharon Hayes, Johanna Billing, Johan Svensson, Nikos Arvanitis, Sarah Pierce, Miklos Erhardt + Little Warsaw, the Complaints Choir in addition to Bidoun Video 2010 with programmes curated by Bidoun and guest curators Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Aram Moshayedi, and the duo of Özge Ersoy and Sohrab Mohebbi.
More information at Art Agenda

Rayya Badran Selected for Bidoun/Delfina New Writing Residency

Delfina Foundation and Bidoun are pleased to announce that Rayya Badran has been selected for the Bidoun/Delfina New Writing Residency, supported by the British Council.

Rayya Badran (b. 1984) is a writer based in Beirut who focuses on the performative nature of the voice as well as on characteristics of aurality and music in film and video. In recent years, her research has explored melancholy in music. Her first publication entitled Radiophonic Voice(s) was produced in the framework of Ashkal Alwan’s Homeworks 5: A forum on cultural practices in April-May 2010, Beirut. The publication engaged two radiophonic events recorded and filmed in 2006 during the Israeli war on Lebanon. Rayya will be in residence in Winter of 2011 during which time she will research how popular culture, specifically Western music, is received, lived and later theorized among different generations in the context of Beirut.

About the Bidoun/Delfina New Writing Residency

Bidoun Magazine and The Delfina Foundation, with the support of the British Council, are working in partnership to provide a unique residency opportunity in London to support new writing from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and the Palestinian Territories. During the residency, s/he will incubate ideas, conduct independent research, access new information, take advantage of UK cultural resources, and further his/her practice as a writer. The residency will be a platform for exploration and experimentation around the themes related to the writer’s research. Under the editorial direction of Bidoun, the resident will produce a written outcome to be published in a future issue of the magazine.

The residency will take place from mid-February to March 2011 for six weeks.

The ideal candidate will be:
— A writer, artist, curator, researcher or cultural practitioner wishing to strengthen his/her practice in writing or undertake specific research for written publication and;
— currently living and working in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt or the Palestinian Territories;
— emerging to mid-career, at least 25 years in age;
— able to demonstrate how the experience of an international residency in London may benefit their practice and career development; and available during the time period.

We welcome applications from writers who do not use English in their practice. However, the application form and additional material should be submitted in English. Applicants will also be asked to demonstrate English proficiency. The successful applicant will be provided with:
— accommodation at Delfina Foundation;
— mentoring and professional development support from Bidoun; and
— an enabling bursary / allowance of £2,250 to cover international flights, per diems for six weeks, and a basic living/materials allowance.
Demonstrable artistic quality and development potential will be key assessment criteria.

Application process

Applications are not currently being accepted. Please check back at a later date for more information.