Japanese artist back to `frozen` Iranian museum, 40 years on
(WorldNews Iran)

When the Museum of Contemporary Art opened in central Tehran in 1977, just two years before the Islamic revolution, the country`s cultural scene was flush with royal patronage.Queen Farah was determined to make Iran a global centre of the arts and gathered masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol -- a collection now valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. ......