{"id":6533,"date":"2017-06-02T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2017-06-02T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T10:32:20","slug":"ali-banisadr-at-sperone-westwater-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/ali-banisadr-at-sperone-westwater-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Banisadr at Sperone Westwater Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From amid sweeping and energetic forms in Ali Banisadr\u2019s painting \u2018Myth\u2019 emerge odd faces that suggest a camel (upper left) a clown with a tall, spotted cap (middle left) and a cast of slightly sinister characters. The Iranian born, NY-based artist explained that the paintings in his current show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speronewestwater.com\/exhibitions\/ali-banisadr_1\/installations\">Sperone Westwater Gallery<\/a> were inspired by politics in the US; he suggests both mass migration and a barbed wire fence in the sky and a mass of menacing figures in the foreground. (On the Lower East Side through June 24<sup>th<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6534\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6534\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6534\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ali_banidsadr-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Banisadr, Myth, oil on linen, 66 x 88 inches, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From amid sweeping and energetic forms in Ali Banisadr\u2019s painting \u2018Myth\u2019 emerge odd faces that suggest a camel (upper left) a clown with a tall, spotted cap (middle left) and a cast of slightly sinister characters. The Iranian born, NY-based artist explained that the paintings in his current show at Sperone Westwater Gallery were inspired &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/ali-banisadr-at-sperone-westwater-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ali Banisadr at Sperone Westwater Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[7158,8,13,2055,431,5199,856,33,3046,3716,7159,16,7160],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-ali-banisadr","tag-art","tag-gallery","tag-iran","tag-lower-east-side","tag-myth","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-sperone","tag-tour","tag-westwater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Hn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}