Today we are sharing a preview of our upcoming summer issue of Middle East Report, Art at Work. "‘Closed Until Further Notice’–Keeping a Tehran Art Institution Alive During Wartime" is an interview with Hamidreza Pejman, the founder and director of the Pejman Foundation, a non-profit contemporary art foundation that has been operating in Tehran since 2015. We look forward to sharing more previews of Art at Work as we lead up to the release later in August. 'Closed Until Further Notice’ – Keeping a Tehran Art Institution Alive During WartimeHamidreza Pejman in conversation with Parham GhalandarThe following interview took place over voice and text messages between March and May 2026 amid the ongoing war. Parham: Your website currently has a notice that you are “closed until further notice,” which can sound like an administrative phrase.