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What Cannes 2026 Revealed About the State of Global Culture

A cultural essay exploring the films, ideas, and tensions that defined Cannes 2026.

Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial

Ebrahim Poustinchi

Ebrahim Poustinchi, architect, technologist, and graphic designer was born and raised in Iran in 1988 and moved to the United States in 2013. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Design at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at the Kent State University.

Sculpture

Athena Jahantigh

Athena is a doctorate graduate in Art & Science of Art from Pantheon Sorbonne, France.

Painting

Reza Azimian

Reza was born in 1977 in Hamedan, Iran. He is a self-taught painter with a focus on showcasing human’s psychological challenges.

Installation, Painting

Zahra Nazari

Zahra was born in 1985 in Hamedan, Iran. And currently she works and lives in New York City. She has a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Her large-scale abstracted and architectonic paintings and installations are based on the ruins of historical sites in Iran in conjunction with American postmodern architectural forms.

Painting

Amir H. Fallah

Amir H. Fallah was born in Tehran, Iran in 1979. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 and his MFA from University of California Los Angeles in 2005.

Industrial, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Morehshin Allahyari

Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator and occasional curator. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine.

Design, Graphic Design, Interview

Interview with Hassan Karimzadeh

Hassan Karimzadeh is a prolific Visual artist; Graphic designer, Cartoonist and Art director for many years.

Painting

Azadeh Razaghdoost

Azadeh was born in 1979 in Tehran, Iran, She received her BA in painting from Tehran’s University of Art in 2002.

Event

MAP 4th Annual Fundraising Gala in Orange County

As a nonprofit organization MAP contributes to the fight against poverty. Nearly one half of the world’s children live in

Painting

Farhad Gavzan

Farhad in an Iranian drawing artist. He was born in 1974 Babol, Iran. He holds a BA in Painting from Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Tehran , and a MA in Painting from Art university of Tehran.

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