The Guardian - Iranhas opened its first museum dedicated to a solo female artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who has received widespread international attention during decades of exile. The nonagenarian doyenne of Iranian art and friend of Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, had her first US solo museum exhibition at the Guggenheim ...

A new exhibition of modern Iranian art will showcase the work of 26 artists from the 1950s to the 1970s, when global art movements particularly influenced Iranian artists, the Asia Society Museum in New York is announcing on Monday. The show coming amid stirrings of hope that Irans international relations will relax under its new president, Hassan ...