Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art - Wikipedia
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We all know the Iran from the news: It's an
ugly, belligerent Muslim state that locks up reporters, denounces the US
and Israel, and yet educates and promotes women and is proud of its
cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity. It's also a society closed to
the outside world in which hospitality is an art form and visitors are
graciously welcomed.
Iran is possibly the most bizarre and contradictory place on earth.
So to find an estimated $2 billion dollars worth of modern and postwar European and American art lining the racks at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art,
several feet below ground, seems strangely normal in this abnormal
place. It was bought with public money during the 1970s under the
patronage of the Shah, whose oppressive and ultimately illegitimate rule
ended abruptly with the Islamic revolution in 1979.[...]
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I've seen bits and pieces of the collection before, four years ago while reporting on the Tehran contemporary art scene for the New York Times.
To say it's impressive is an understatement. The depth and diversity of
the holdings are nothing short of monumental—around 1400 words of
classic European and American art.
The inmates here include Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Alberto Giacometti, Donald Judd, Camille Pissarro, Morris Louis, Rene Magritte, Andre Derain, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Willem de Kooning, and on and on.[......]
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