Author / Ala Ebtekar

The latest in a series of international presentations of Negus, the exhibition acknowledges the importance of hip-hop as a fundamental American art form by making the 8-track, 28-minute recording available without the distractions of technology…

Not long ago, man brought the skies closer to earth by covering the interior of domes and praying halls with polychrome tiles, representing heaven looking over man; heaven made from the earth; from clay on the bed of rivers, the soil that embraced layers and layers of organic and non-organic matter that flowed in the rivers over millions and millions of years…

The wall was a collaboration between Artist-in-Residence GhalamDAR and Bay Area based artist Mike “BAM” Tyau along with help from Stanford University students enrolled in Ala Ebtekar’s course on Public Art…

A Naqqali performance (from the Shahnameh) live-streamed from a Coffee-House in Darvaze Ghar, Tehran, Iran…

Minoosh Zomorrodinia and Tara Goodarzi work on an in-situ performative intervention between Stanford, California and Khoram Abad, Iran…