What’s Happening: Embraced by Iranian protesters following the murder of Mahsa Amini, the rallying cry “woman, life, freedom” continues to galvanize resistance to the Islamic Republic and now inspires a series of four powerful new pieces of protest art in Edinburgh, Paris, and Dublin.

The Download: Saturday marked a year since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in the custody of Iran’s morality police on allegations of violating the country’s strict hijab law. “Her vicious and unjust murder unleashed a lot of pent-up rage,” the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat told Harper’s Bazaar after Amini’s death, which stirred the world’s conscience and ignited months-long protests led by women and girls. “It was almost like the women of Iran had been waiting for something to happen.” Across the country, women publicly unveiled and demanded an overhaul of the government in what some deem as the most serious challenge to the Islamic Republic since they took power in 1979. A violent crackdown ensued—security forces arrested thousands and killed at least 500 protesters, including children and teenagers.

The phrase “woman, life, freedom” became a rallying cry during the protests, and its message continues to reverberate as the Iranian fight for liberation soldiers on. To commemorate the anniversary of Amini’s death and highlight the work ahead, four artists—Koushna Navabi, Anahita Razmi, Abbas Zahedi, and Hadi Falapishi—have unveiled posters on the streets of Edinburgh, Paris, and Dublin underscoring the slogan’s message of defiance. The project was initiated by Artists for Woman Life Freedom, an organization founded by Navabi that partners with museums to display public artwork raising awareness of Iranian dissent and resistance.

Each poster displays the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” and pays tribute to the powerful visual art that has painted countless streets around the world thanks to grassroots activists. Each is uniquely attention-grabbing: Navabi’s poster superimposes a uterus onto an Iranian heritage site; Zahedi asks the handwritten question “This poster has more rights than most women living on this planet, how?” The launch coincided with a day of “art, activism, and reflection” this past weekend at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery and Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie, which both screened moving-image works by Iranian filmmaker Mina Keshavarz. It also follows the release of editor Malu Halasa’s Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran, an anthology that captures this pivotal year of uprising in artwork and first-person testimony.

In Their Own Words: “As an artist, I believe that aligning the Iranian women’s rights movement with the universal human rights cause against the oppression of all women globally is vital,” Zahedi told The Art Newspaper. “Art transcends borders, just as the struggle for equality does. Iranian women’s challenges are a poignant reflection of broader patterns of female oppression worldwide.”

Surface Says: Neshat was right when she said it’s important that artists are vocal.

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One look at the exuberant wall coverings designed by Gupica founder Gunilla Zamboni and it’s no surprise to learn the Bologna-based talent cut her teeth studying fresco and mural painting in Versailles. Well-versed with how color and graphics influence the perception of space, she wields that painterly approach to dial into design’s emotional dimension when dreaming up mesmerizing luminaires, eye-catching glass objects, and everything in between.

When: Until Oct. 28

Where: Marta, Los Angeles

What: The New York–based duo’s latest exhibition of lighting and furniture looks inward, providing a darkly comedic take on the “toil” of production as a working artist. Cultural reference points for the collection span Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (a cult, Soviet-era sci-fi flick), Japan’s post-war, biomimetic, Metabolism architecture, and even the sanitariums that had all but shuttered by the mid-20th century. The result is a spartan series of foam furniture and polychromatic lighting that creates a cloistered universe from which to contemplate what it means to have a life in the race to social, intellectual, financial, and creative fulfillment.

Last week, guests from design, fashion, business, music, and entertainment gathered at the Porsche Experience Center in Los Angeles to celebrate a collaboration between paint and wall coverings brand Backdrop. The limited-edition palette celebrates 75 years of the German automaker by bringing four heritage Porsche colors to the home. Held at Porsche’s private driving track, the event let attendees experience an installation highlighting the collection and a “hot lap” with a pro driver before enjoying music by DJ Mick and Parlé.

When was it? Sept. 12

Where was it? Porsche’s Los Angeles headquarters.

Who was there? Natalie Ebel, Caleb Ebel, Courtney Trop, Christina Caradona, Nathaniel Ru, Andre Herrero, Melanie Masarin, Dabito, Nicholas Sheppard, and more.

For a scant few, the pay and perks of a plum museum job leave little to be desired when it comes to meeting basic needs like a livable wage. But for the other 76 percent, factors like low pay, 18-hour days, lack of job security, few growth opportunities, and burnout are contributing to their thoughts of leaving the museum industry for good. The problem isn’t localized to one region or museum: according to Museums Moving Forward and its 2022 workplace equity and organizational culture study, only 24 percent of the 1,933 staff surveyed across 50 museums are not considering leaving their jobs. An unrelated study recently published by Future Forum found that while 48 percent of U.S. workers were satisfied with their jobs, only 28 percent of museum workers, specifically, were satisfied with theirs.

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