More than 500 works were submitted last year after protests swept the country

The Shiraz-born artist tells us how she became an artist after a bad cycling accident and why what is happening in Iran is “no longer a protest, it’s a revolution”

Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubda were sentenced in September for the crime of "corruption on earth through the promotion of homosexuality"

Plus, Shirin Neshat on Iran's uprising and Puerto Rican art after Hurricane Maria

Protesters gathered at Lacma to mark the Zahedan massacre as well as draw attention to the suppression and imprisonment of protesters and activists

Following the death of Mahsa Amini in September, the museum and art world have been called on to address the worsening human rights situation in the country

An anonymous collective unfurled banners proclaiming “Women, Life, Freedom” from the top of the institution's rotunda

Institutions are urged to show solidarity following Mahsa Amini's death after her detention by the morality police

Pieces in West Hollywood and London's Piccadilly are a reaction to the death of 22-year-old student Mahsa Amini, after being detained by authorities in the country

Yaser Khaseb fell into a 1977 installation by the Japanese artist Noriyuki Haraguchi in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Our roundup of the latest art publications

Asia Society group show from Mohammed Akfami collection shows 'great diversity' of Iran’s often unseen arts scene

Before the discovery of the more than 50 painted blocks, “the richness of Mannaean civilisation had not been appreciated”, expert says

From 5,000 years of Iranian art and culture to Black female resistance and the domestic sphere

A new memoir by curator Donna Stein reveals the story behind the creation of a Western art collection for the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in the 1970s

Vincent’s print—inscribed “At Eternity’s Gate” by the artist—went from Nelson Rockefeller to Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art

With ten sections covering ancient Iranian history to contemporary art, London museum plans to open delayed show in February

Despite pandemic, Russian and Iranian museum directors met online to discuss future cultural collaborations

Pejman Foundation in Tehran opened a museum at the start of this year only for it to close soon after as coronavirus struck

The artist says Iran has been “devastated” by the crisis, which he adds has been exacerbated by US sanctions

The US-Iranian artist tells The Art Newspaper which artists inspire her and why

Insurers refused to cover the transport of loans, including salt-mine mummies and Greek and Roman antiquities

The US president’s reversal comes after widespread condemnation and defense officials’ assurances that military would abide by international law

Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, calls on the international community to condemn President Trump's threat to target Iran's cultural sites

Meanwhile, an impromptu tribute to the country’s cultural heritage broke out on Twitter, as users posted images of their favourite places

The US is signatory to The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which forbids any act of hostility to cultural property

Two artists began a collaborative project after one was denied a visa to enter the US under Donald Trump's travel ban

The Iranian artist's major exhibition opens at the Broad museum features new work addressing discrimination in Trump's America