{"id":1927923,"date":"2026-05-10T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1927923"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:49:52","slug":"art-as-survival-us-artists-anti-war-artefacts-exhibited-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1927923","title":{"rendered":"Art as survival: US artists&#8217; anti-war artefacts exhibited in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/75\/32\/70\/1200x675_cmsv2_a4046d89-aa4e-5133-959d-bfee5a756575-9753270.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2892642-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1 the-media-object--has-video\" data-nid=\"2892642\" data-cid=\"9753289\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2892642-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" 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o-article-newsy\">\n<div class=\"helper-site-container o-article-newsy__container\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__main\">\n<header class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__header\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs\">\n<div id=\"adb-article-breadcrumb\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs__list\">\n<p>                          Culture<\/p>\n<p>                          Art<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            Art as survival: US artists&#8217; anti-war artefacts exhibited in Tehran<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/75\/32\/70\/1536x864_cmsv2_a4046d89-aa4e-5133-959d-bfee5a756575-9753270.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt='Iranian Artist Ghazaleh Jahanbin looks at screenprints of American artist Robert Indiana as she visits an exhibition called: \"Art &amp; war\" displaying some artworks of American'><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              Iranian Artist Ghazaleh Jahanbin looks at screenprints of American artist Robert Indiana as she visits an exhibition called: &#8220;Art &amp; war&#8221; displaying some artworks of American<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0AP Photo\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspOmid Lahabi\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1778428192\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-05-10 17:49:52 +02:00\">10\/05\/2026 &#8211; 17:49 GMT+2<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-partage-commentaire-share\"><span>Share<\/span><\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire-popup-overlay js-c-article-partage-commentaire-popup-overlay u-display-none\">\n<div id=\"js-c-article-partage-commentaire-popup\" class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire-popup js-c-article-partage-commentaire-popup\">\n<div 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js-article-content\">\n<p>With Tehran&#8217;s streets lined up with anti-American billboards and posters amid tensions in the Middle East, Iranians turned out to visit an anti-war exhibition at one of the city\u2019s top museums.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The exhibition, titled &#8220;Art and War&#8221;, features works by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and James Rosenquist. These pieces, created in the 1960s pop art style, have all been selected for their anti-war themes.<\/p>\n<p>The works on display come from the museum\u2019s major collection of American and European modern art, which was acquired in the 1970s by Farah Pahlavi, the former shah\u2019s wife, and has largely been kept out of public view since the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Amid war and confrontation, the works resonated with young visitors strolling the gallery. Some of them examined Rosenquist\u2019s work &#8220;F-111&#8221;, a collage critiquing America\u2019s military-industrial complex with images of a warplane\u2019s fuselage, a nuclear mushroom cloud and a child\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby was &#8220;Brattata&#8221;, one of Lichtenstein\u2019s characteristic comic-book-panel paintings of a fighter-plane pilot shooting down an enemy craft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican artists have always had a really interesting way of ridiculing war, and that\u2019s always fascinated me in their work,\u201d said Ghazaleh Jahanbin, a Tehran artist. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/75\/32\/70\/808x539_cmsv2_00b96cdc-0492-530d-afed-b7894f9455f8-9753270.jpg\" alt='A woman looks at \"F-111\" an artwork of American artist James Rosenquist as she visits an exhibition called: \"Art &amp; war\" displaying some artworks of American artists, Tehran.'><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">A woman looks at &#8220;F-111&#8221; an artwork of American artist James Rosenquist as she visits an exhibition called: &#8220;Art &amp; war&#8221; displaying some artworks of American artists, Tehran.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Vahid Salemi\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMaybe part of it, I don\u2019t know, comes from their geographical distance from war itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Sadegh Abbasi, one of the visitors, praised the staging of this exhibition in such uncertain times: &#8220;Despite the war and all the hardships people are enduring, art is a way of escaping the pressure everyone is under. In other words, art is a means of survival and a way of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Exhibition, a response to &#8220;events unfolding around it&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Reza Dabiri-Nejad, the museum\u2019s director, said the institution intended the exhibition to be a response to &#8220;the events unfolding around it&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He told the media that this was why the works showcased &#8220;had either been shaped by the experience of war or created as a reaction to wars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>During the 40-day war, museums and many other cultural activities in Iran were closed. But since the ceasefire, many of them have once again opened their doors to the public. <\/p>\n<p>However, according to the museum director, the number of works on display has deliberately been kept low so that, should the war resume, they can quickly be moved to secure storage.<\/p>\n<p>The museum\u2019s collection of modern American and European art has a storied history. The government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi built the museum and acquired the collection in the 1970s, when oil was booming and Iran was the closest US ally in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The shah\u2019s wife, former Empress Farah Pahlavi, largely picked the collection, including artists ranging from Picasso and Van Gogh to Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Iran responds to US proposal to end the war via a Pakistani mediator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>But just two years after the museum opened, the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted the shah, and theocratic rule by Shiite clerics was installed. 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class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    New report claims Kurt Cobain&#8217;s death is homicide staged as suicide<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"abe-2892416-pos3-mostViewed\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-3 m-modeDesktop-3 m-modeXL-3 the-media-object--has-related the-media-object--no-label\" data-nid=\"2892416\" data-cid=\"9752607\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Venice Biennale opens: contested presence of Russia and Israel<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"abe-2892136-pos4-mostViewed\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-3 m-modeDesktop-3 m-modeXL-3 the-media-object--has-related the-media-object--no-label\" data-nid=\"2892136\" data-cid=\"9751118\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    White House calls out Star Wars actor Mark Hamill for dead Trump image<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"abe-2881251-pos5-mostViewed\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-3 m-modeDesktop-3 m-modeXL-3 the-media-object--has-video the-media-object--has-related the-media-object--no-label\" data-nid=\"2881251\" data-cid=\"9698342\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Sarah Mullally makes history as first woman to lead Church of England<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articleBody\" data-key=\"articleBody\">With Tehran&#8217;s streets lined up with anti-American billboards and posters amid tensions in the Middle East, Iranians turned out to visit an anti-war exhibition at one of the city\u2019s top museums.The exhibition, titled &#8220;Art and War&#8221;, features works by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and James Rosenquist. These pieces, created in the 1960s pop art style, have all been selected for their anti-war themes.The works on display come from the museum\u2019s major collection of American and European modern art, which was acquired in the 1970s by Farah Pahlavi, the former shah\u2019s wife, and has largely been kept out of public view since the revolution.Amid war and confrontation, the works resonated with young visitors strolling the gallery. Some of them examined Rosenquist\u2019s work &#8220;F-111&#8221;, a collage critiquing America\u2019s military-industrial complex with images of a warplane\u2019s fuselage, a nuclear mushroom cloud and a child\u2019s face.Nearby was &#8220;Brattata&#8221;, one of Lichtenstein\u2019s characteristic comic-book-panel paintings of a fighter-plane pilot shooting down an enemy craft.\u201cAmerican artists have always had a really interesting way of ridiculing war, and that\u2019s always fascinated me in their work,\u201d said Ghazaleh Jahanbin, a Tehran artist.\u201cMaybe part of it, I don\u2019t know, comes from their geographical distance from war itself.&#8221;Mohammad Sadegh Abbasi, one of the visitors, praised the staging of this exhibition in such uncertain times: &#8220;Despite the war and all the hardships people are enduring, art is a way of escaping the pressure everyone is under. In other words, art is a means of survival and a way of life.&#8221;Exhibition, a response to &#8220;events unfolding around it&#8221;Reza Dabiri-Nejad, the museum\u2019s director, said the institution intended the exhibition to be a response to &#8220;the events unfolding around it&#8221;.He told the media that this was why the works showcased &#8220;had either been shaped by the experience of war or created as a reaction to wars&#8221;.During the 40-day war, museums and many other cultural activities in Iran were closed. But since the ceasefire, many of them have once again opened their doors to the public.However, according to the museum director, the number of works on display has deliberately been kept low so that, should the war resume, they can quickly be moved to secure storage.The museum\u2019s collection of modern American and European art has a storied history. The government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi built the museum and acquired the collection in the 1970s, when oil was booming and Iran was the closest US ally in the region.The shah\u2019s wife, former Empress Farah Pahlavi, largely picked the collection, including artists ranging from Picasso and Van Gogh to Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon.But just two years after the museum opened, the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted the shah, and theocratic rule by Shiite clerics was installed. 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