The Tehran Museum makes public Western works of art that were previously kept private.
Some of the most coveted works of western contemporary art have been unveiled in Tehran for the first time in decades Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a virulent cleric, rails against foreign influence. امداد خودرو غرب تهران authorities have criticised "deviant" artists for "attacking Iran's revolutionary culture." The Islamic Republic has also stepped up its confrontation with the US and Europe as it swiftly advances its nuclear programme and diplomatic efforts stall.
Contradictions, however, abound in Tehran.
where tens of thousands of affluent men and women witnessed the debut exhibition this summer of American and European minimalist and conceptual masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Art critics and students recently viewed Marcel Duchamp's transparent mural The Large Glass from 1915, which has long been regarded as an examination of erotic frustration.
Along with other significant works.
The exhibition included a rare 4-meter (13-foot) untitled sculpture by American minimalist innovator Donald Judd and Open Cube, one of his most well-known serial works. The Judd sculpture is made up of horizontal panels of lacquered brass and aluminium, and it is estimated to be worth millions of dollars.
Observing the 130 works of art for the fourth time since it had been on display since June, Babak Bahari said, "It takes a lot of courage to set up a show with such a theme and such works." Even in the west, these works "are at the centre of discussions and dialogue." Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran who received support from the west, and his wife, the former empress Farah Pahlavi, constructed the museum and the multibillion-dollar collection in the late 1970s, a period of oil boom and stagnant western economies It raised Iran's cultural profile abroad when it first opened by exhibiting works by well-known artists like Jackson Pollock, Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, and Pablo Picasso.