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Tehran reveals works of Western art kept hidden for years
FirstpostYoung Iranians are increasingly interested in international art despite their nation’s growing isolation from the rest of the world and worries that the hard-line administration may further restrict their limited social and cultural liberties Tehran: For the first time in decades, some of the most coveted pieces of Western modern art were unveiled in Tehran. They gazed at a rare 4-meter untitled sculpture by American minimalist pioneer Donald Judd and one of Sol Lewitt’s best-known serial pieces, “Open Cube,” among other important works. “Even in the West these works are at the heart of discussions and dialogue.” The government of Iran’s Western-backed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife, the former Empress Farah Pahlavi, built the museum and acquired the multibillion-dollar collection in the late 1970s, when oil boomed and Western economies stagnated. “These are good works of art, you don’t want to imitate them,” said Mohammad Shahsavari, a 20-year-old architecture student standing before Lewitt’s cube structure.
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