... If the artists who emigrated to other cultural capitals after the 1979 Revolution are any indication, the global art world has been the beneficiary. Yet if the small but diverse selection of art in the exhibition, Portraits: Reflections of Iranian Artists, is representative of the visions being withheld from public view in Iran, then the global audience may have only seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of the wealth of contemporary Iranian art. The fact that the majority of the artists shown in the Portraits show still live in Iran assures us that there is a contemporary idiom that Americans, and perhaps Westerners as a whole, share with Iranians despite our many cultural and ideological differences. Or perhaps those differences have all along been exaggerated by our media, experts and governments
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:42:51 +0000
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