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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution2011.08.16
‘FOLLOW YOUR SENSES,’ LOFT OWNER ADVISES Granite quarry his ‘bread and butter,’ but passion for art shines in Castleberry Hill. Massoud Besharat didn’t plan to live in a loft in Castleberry Hill. Heck, he didn’t plan to live and own a granite quarry in Elberton either. But here he is —- in both places. ARTNET Magazine2011.03.14
THE COLOR OF MEANING by Adrian Dannatt You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing — you’re not sure whether it’s intentional or inadvertent. And then you discover he is the son of a notorious Dominican admiral, that the tyrannical dictator Trujillo was best man at his parents’ wedding, that his mother was a fabled high-society beauty, that he grew up on battleships and estancias before going, inevitably, to Brown. ARTCARDS Review2011.03.14
The Fame Monsterby Cielo Lutino on March 10, 2011 “El Triunfo De La Muerte” (courtesy Besharat Gallery)
In the early days of my nerdom, I used to stay up late before the book fairs my elementary school held, marking and then erasing, and then marking again which books I wanted to buy when the fair opened. Our teachers provided us beforehand with a catalogue of the books that would be at the fair, but my mother capped how much I could spend. It meant budgeting. I hated not being able to buy whatever I wanted, but the limitations made me appreciate all the more what my restricted dollars bought and what they could not. I would wander the stacks of books, learning titles I hadn’t known existed, and I would be grateful for my exposure to them; later I would look in the library for those I hadn’t been able to buy. Read more… “Maison Massoud”2010.03.01
The Atlantan Magazine – March/April 2010
Maison Massoud A peek into the loft/gallery of Castleberry’s new art czar reveals an aesthetic informed by exotic European Salon at Besharat Gallery2009.08.20
September 20, 2009, 6 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Step into a 1925 building with the art and flair of a European Salon. This evening in the Castleberry Hill Gallery where owner Massoud Besharat mixes business with pleasure, you will meet a collector whose calling card reads ‘Saint and Poet’. Read more… |
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