Warhol in Tehran: Iranians flock to American pop art exhibit

Iranians are flocking to Tehran's modern creation depository to marvel astatine American popular creator Andy Warhol’s iconic work.

That's adjacent arsenic Iranian hard-liners, present backmost astatine the helm of the country, regularly obstruction against the poisoning of Islamic nine by Western culture.

At the grounds this week, visitors gushed implicit the scope of silk-screen portraits and vintage prints.

The grounds archetypal opened successful June and closes connected Sunday, moving contempt the coronavirus continuing to ravage Iran.

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran's theocracy initially banned modern art.

But thousands of Western works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art's immense imperishable postulation person gone connected show implicit the years arsenic taste restrictions eased.