Archive for November 1994

New York- Bahman Maghsoudlou, the Iranian expatriate film scholar and author who has successfully moved into movie production from his International Film & Video Center in Manhattan, has devised a way to further distinguish his store from the competition: He has turned it into an art gallery. Maghsoudlou has just hung six paintings by Daryush…

New York- Amir Naderi’s Manhattan By Numbers manages to become a mesmerizing quest for meaning simply by projecting Manhattan into the foreground and its narrative in the background. Is this the city (or, rather, the borough) that launched a thousand dreams? Hardly. Mr. Naderi is closer in spirit to the George Orwell of Down and…