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Chelsea Museum Hits the Mark With “Iran Inside Out”

By Robert Ayers

Published: June 26, 2009
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© the artists, courtesy Chelsea Museum of Art
Shirin Aliabdai and Farhad Moshiri, "We Are All American" (2006) from the series "Operation Supermarket" 2

“Iran Inside Out” is a must-see, broad-ranging and consistently provocative in both medium and subject matter. There a lot of references here that the non-Iranian viewer has to work pretty hard at, but the Chelsea Art Museum has done a splendid job with its wall texts and catalog, and you’ll come away from this show knowing and thinking about things that had never occurred to you before. At a moment of crucial political imbalance, what more might you ask of an art show?
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