KAT WADE / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER The Mediterranean Courtyard at the Honolulu Museum of Art was transformed into a Persian Paradise Garden with the addition of plants and trees for fragrance, ...

Bahar Behbahani, ‘Garden Coup,’ installation view (all images courtesy of the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York) Bahar Behbahani’s incendiary photograph “Proceeding” (2007), of a woman ...

From Timur's tent in Samarqand to Shah Abbas' palace in Isfahan and Humayun's tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an intergral part of Persianate gardens since its earliest appearance at the ...

A current ad campaign for the Friends of the Public Garden in Boston declares, “In literature, paradise is usually a garden. Real life, too.” Behind that pithy appeal are layers and layers of human ...

Installation view, Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The Houston Museum of ...

The Persian Garden consists of a collection of nine gardens, selected from various regions of Iran, which tangibly represent the diverse forms that this type of designed garden has assumed over the ...