The Conversation|Edward McDonald-Toone: A new exhibition of works from the Barjeel collection recently opened at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art to considerable international fanfare. No reviews have appeared at time of writing (and this is also not one), but The Sea Suspended has been widely hailed as the first group exhibition of modern art ...

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Tehran, March 30, IRNA Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati stressed on Sunday the need for pursuing diplomacy of culture in order to promote Iran?s relations with other countries. Addressing a local meeting here, the minister referred to the significance of promoting influential relations with representatives of foreign countries ...