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Vancouver Art Gallery

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Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78

Vancouver Art Gallery · Vancouver, Canada · 11 Dec 2026 to 2 May 2027

Opening soonConfirmed , 7 weeks agoFrom the museum's own page

About 100 works in various media by modern Iranian artists, examining how they negotiated modernist innovation alongside traditional Iranian cultural forms between 1948 and 1978.

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