The Islamic Republic sought to drive out Western influence. Yet in the storerooms of a Tehran museum, it still preserves nearly three billion dollars’ worth of modern masterpieces. In the basement of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art lies a world the Islamic Republic believed it had expelled from Iranian history. Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, Warhol, Bacon, Giacometti, Magritte: the masters of European and American modernism survived the fall of the Shah, the revolution, the war with Iraq,...

Exploring the timeless genius of El Greco’s visionary style El Greco, born Doménikos Theotokópoulos in 1541 on the island of Crete,...

The Unique Vision of Ali Banisadr Art Ali Banisadr (b. 1976) is a contemporary artist whose work is deeply influenced by his early...