Stories from All The Good Things
A Friday with Tania, gallery to gallery
In Tehran the weekend lands on Friday — so that's the day she walks the galleries, hunting the newest work and the artists worth bringing West.
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The manteau is the canvas
I spent a season meeting Tehran's clothing designers. The first thing I learned: the overcoat is where all the invention is.
Heech: the art of nothing
I was exploring the art, trying to name what makes a Tehran painting feel both ancient and completely now. The answer was a word that means nothing.
Tribal cloth, modern cut
I kept being told to find Nina. When I did, she was cutting hundred-year-old nomad cloth into a coat you could wear to a gallery.
The museum that kept Picasso in the basement
I went to understand where Tehran's artists come from. Half the answer is a museum that has kept a Pollock in its vault for forty years.
The Basement
I kept hearing about a gallery in a cellar. I went down the stairs and found the engine room of Tehran's art.
Dressing in code
I went looking for Tehran's fashion designers and learned that most of them, officially, don't exist — they work from living rooms and private accounts, and the clothes are extraordinary.
A deep look into the art scene of Tehran
Behind a quiet door off a north-Tehran street: a white room, a crowd, and some of the most urgent art being made anywhere.
Finding the right things
There is no algorithm for taste — only a long walk, a good eye, and the patience to leave most of it behind.
A week on the looms of Yazd
To dress a termeh loom takes a day. To fill it takes a week. We went to Yazd to watch it happen.