Ali Banisadr talks to critic John Vincler for Cultured ahead of Katonah Museum of Art exhibition

'Banisadr is among my favorite people to talk with about art. We’ve talked art in his light-filled Brooklyn studio surrounded by his paintings and numerous reference materials arrayed on tables and work benches (a selection of these will also be on view at Katonah). We’ve passed in and out of downtown galleries together in conversation, and we’ve met to look at Martin Schongauer and Dürer prints, Blake drawings, and Persian miniatures in the reading room of the Morgan Library. Banisadr’s art is as infused with intellectual history as it is with art history. He looks, he reads, and has a seemingly infinite curiosity that informs and compels him in his own work. His show at Katonah welcomes everybody into the conversation.'

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Image: Ali Banisadr, These fragments I have shored against my ruins (detail), 2023

Oil on linen

218.4 x 457.2 cm, 86 x 180 in

© Ali Banisadr

Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro⁣