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After the regime's brutal response to the street demonstrations, an adviser to presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi said he handed out "around a thousand" CDs containing hip-hop and rap tracks with pro-democracy messages. A graffiti artist sprayed "Death to [Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali] Khamenei" - a phrase no one would have dared utter two months ago - on a city bus. And a prominent underground Tehran rock band, Hypernova, now living in exile, created a Web portal, the Freedom Glory Project, to gather support from other Iranian performers for the "green movement." (See a video featuring Hypernova...
...have to move somewhere with the freedom of speech to share my feelings with others," says the producer. He says that operating as an artist in Iran has become almost impossible because of the heavy-handed Internet filters that block the social-networking sites he relies on to market his music. "When I get out of the country, I will show [the government...
Most youths in the street scene are just as desperate to leave, for to become commercially successful in Iran, an artist or performer must at least have the tacit approval of the theocratic regime. One of the country's best-known rappers, Hichkas (Soroush Lashgari), started out being harshly critical of the regime, but in the past year, he has become increasingly pro-government. In one song, he scolds partygoers who stay out late and get roughed up by the religious police. "He's a total sellout," says a 26-year-old student who now listens to exiled bands like...
...probability, according to City Secrets New York City, that the young person sitting next to you at one of the many new hipster bars on Ludlow Street is either an artist recently profiled in The New York Times or a New York University student playing hooky...
...think best in wire,” the artist once said. Thank you for abandoning paints and canvas, Mr. Calder. You bring back the crafty, Lincoln-log stacking, mobile-blowing child...