Image of the Day

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Another cool collaboration from Ohne Titel – last season they worked with Tauba Auerbach, and the SS2011 campaign features Iranian-born artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. When I worked in Soho I used to see this woman walking around – sometimes alone, sometimes with her family – and I wondered who she was. I was already a fan of her work so it was funny when I realized she was the great Shirin Neshat.

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I just noticed that the New York Times posted a short video of Neshat discussing her shoot for Ohne Titel and her feelings on fashion meeting art, among other things – watch at nytimes.com. (which reminds me, the Times' featured Neshat's Soho loft in the Home section awhile back – click here to see).

This Woman's Work

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The cover image from a new book by Arthur Danto on Iranian/American photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, with a foreword by Marina Abramovic. Get more info on the book at Rizzoli, and read a recent interview with Neshat here. Shirin Neshat is represented by Gladstone Gallery.

In Seattle from July 9–15, the Henry is sponsoring a screening of Shirin Neshat's first full-length feature film, Women Without Men, at Northwest Film Forum: "Set in Iran during [the] infamous 1953 CIA-backed coup, the film follows four women from different social classes as they take refuge in a metaphorical orchard." Here's the trailer:

Go to nwfilmforum.org for info and tickets