For critics, the now-removed vegetable garden symbolized the museum’s decades-long decline.
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Tehran’s Contemporary Art Museum Has a Serious Bug Problem
A video showing insects crawling inside a framed photograph by artists Bernd and Hilla Becher caused uproar, and disgust, online.
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Two Artists Attempt to Collaborate Across Continents, Travel Bans and All
With “The Other Apartment,” a joint project by Jon Rubin and Sohrab Kashani, located in both Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iranians and Americans can attend events and experience the space together, in real time.
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Tehran Diary: The Lives Projected onto Public and Private Spaces
TEHRAN — Traveling from the center to the north of Tehran reveals the city’s multiple elevations: topographical, architectural, and economic.
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Tehran Diary: A Largely Local Art Scene Begins to Open Up
TEHRAN — My first impression of the Iranian capital is one of vagueness in a difficult topography, as the city sprawls in all directions and stands at different elevations surrounded by mountains.
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Cinematic Illusions of Destruction
The dismal, desert landscape in Wawrzyniec Kolbusz’s latest photographic series looks much like the bombed-out terrain we often see in documentary war images.
