Artist Farshchian and Iran's Culturati Rankled By MET's Ranking of Arab Countries
TEHRAN TIMES
IRAN - Ranking the name of Iran behind other countries in the title of galleries to be reopened in the Islamic Art section of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has aroused some resentment in Iran. Master Iranian miniaturist Mahmud Farshchian and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art curator Mahmud Shaluii objected to ranking the name of Iran “after other countries”. A suite of 15 dramatic new galleries for the art of the Arab lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and later South Asia will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 1. “Iran possesses more artworks in comparison with other countries that are named ahead of it in the title of the galleries,” Farshchian and Shaluii claimed. The grand reopening of the galleries will house the Metropolitan’s renowned collection of Islamic art—one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of its kind in the world. [link]
IRAN - Ranking the name of Iran behind other countries in the title of galleries to be reopened in the Islamic Art section of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has aroused some resentment in Iran. Master Iranian miniaturist Mahmud Farshchian and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art curator Mahmud Shaluii objected to ranking the name of Iran “after other countries”. A suite of 15 dramatic new galleries for the art of the Arab lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and later South Asia will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 1. “Iran possesses more artworks in comparison with other countries that are named ahead of it in the title of the galleries,” Farshchian and Shaluii claimed. The grand reopening of the galleries will house the Metropolitan’s renowned collection of Islamic art—one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of its kind in the world. [link]
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