'Andy Warhol in Iran' a fictional meeting in a very real world
Artistic director BJ Jones helms the award-winning drama, based on Warhol’s 1976 visit to the country.
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Art and Politics Share a Bedroom in "Andy Warhol in Iran"
In 1976, Andy Warhol flew to Tehran to take Polaroids of Empress Farah Pahlavi, whom he had met with her husband, the Shah of Iran, at the White House the previous year during Gerald Ford's administration. Intrigued by this fish-out-of-water story, the playwright Brent Askari admitted ...
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