Director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) Ehsan Aqai was dismissed on Monday just two days after a thespian slightly damaged Oil Pool, an artwork at the museum, by mistake during his performance. Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Mahmud Salari announced Ebadorreza Eslami-Kulai as the new director of the museum on Monday ...

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) is playing host to an exhibition displaying a collection of Iranian artworks on Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. The museum has also borrowed some artworks from collectors for the showcase entitled Panj Ganj (Five Treasures). Opening on Saturday evening with a special musical performance by Avay-e Mehr ensemble ...

IFP- Berlin and Rome are in talks with Tehran to open exhibitions putting on show items on loan from Tehrans Museum of Contemporary Arts. Director of Irans Museum of Contemporary Art Ali Mohammad Zare says items on loan from the museum are to be displayed at exhibitions in Rome and Berlin. He noted that the necessary arrangements are being made ...

MNA Following a letter by German FM to Irans Zarif guaranteeing the safety of the treasured collections of Tehrans Museum of Contemporary Arts, conditions are now ripe for touring the treasury in Berlin. On Nov. 4, Iranian deputy Minister of Culture for Art Affairs Ali Moradkhani discussed with reporters the signing of agreements with Germany ...

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) is considered to have the most valuable collection of Western modern art outside Europe and North America. Tucked away in the museums 40-year-old treasure vault are such masterpieces as Picassos "Artist and His Model," Francis Bacons "Two Figures Lying on a Bed With Attendants," Andy Warhols "Suicide," ...

Iranian and western artworks among the treasured collections of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) will be sent to Berlin and Rome later this year to be shown at museums there. The TMoCA owns an impressive collection of artworks by great Iranian artists including Manoucher Yektai, Sohrab Sepehri, Mansour Ghandriz, Faramarz Pilaram and ...

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Artis planning to host an exhibition of works by Iranian modernist painter Farideh Lashai. The event will display a collection of works from different phases of Lashais artistic activities. Born in 1944, Farideh Lashai was among the most successful Iranian artists, writers and translators, best known for her ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 25 (MNA) A collection from the Rainbow series by German artist Otto Piene is currently being showcased at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a collection of artworks by the German painter, printmaker and environmental artist, as well as the founder of the influential European postwar ...

German graphic designer Fons Matthias Hickmann has presented a workshop on the art of typography at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Organized by the Iranian Graphic Designers Society (IGDS), the event was held concurrent with the Tehran Graphic Design Week, celebrating World Graphic Design Day, on April 27. A number of Iranian graphic students ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 5 (MNA) The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) has purchased two paintings by former curator Habibollah Sadeqi. The works were purchased at his exhibition, which is currently underway at the Sareban Gallery, the gallery announced on Monday. The exhibition entitled Amethystine Garden reflects parts of his childhood memoirs....

A collection of art pieces created by a number of artists belonged to the Saqqakhaneh Art Movement has been displayed at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA). The exhibition kicked off during a ceremony held at the museum, while a number of Iranian officials in culture attended the gala. Iran's Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance ...