Opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art in tehran

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“I was very young and at the time, I didn’t know much about the art being celebrated there,” says Jila Dejam, who had the only official license to take photos at the museum. She shudders, however, when remembering the moment when Shah Reza Pahlavi stopped to look at a Japanese artist’s work, a basin filled with a shiny black liquid.

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