Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut by Paul Gauguin 1888

Iran’s Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Has Been Hiding One of the World’s Great Art Collections

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Lautrec Girl with Lovelock by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1889

via Iran’s Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Has Been Hiding One of the World’s Great Art Collections.

This is an extensive article on Bloomberg on the art collection acquired by Empress Farah Pahlavi of Iran before the current barbarous regime took over. Very well done, this article will answer many questions one might have in regards to the works held at this museum. The authors, Peter Waldman and Golnar Motevalli, are a little too generous in their presentation of the current state of affairs, failing to mention that Iran is still the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism, deals in large scale hegemony and engages in all sorts of barbaric behavior internally. However, the information presented is quite fascinating and put together very well.

Knowing the iconoclastic nature of the brutal Iranian regime, leads one to think that as long as these works remain in that country and as long as the current savages remain in power, the works will always exist precariously.

For those that do not know, the fundamentalist Muslims that control Iran adhere to primitive notions about the rendering of images. In western culture a famous period in history that saw a rise in Iconoclasm was in Byzantium, around the time of Emperor Leo III (717-741).