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Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art to Digitize Collection

From ArtForum (http://artforum.com/news/id=63117)

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is working to digitize all of the works in its collection, including Pablo Picasso’s Artist and His Model, Andy Warhol’s Suicide, and Jackson Pollock’s Mural on Indian Red Ground, in order to feature them on its website, Zahra Alipour of |www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/tehran-museum-of-contemporary-art-tmoca-website-vault.html|Al-Monitor| reports. The museum will not organize any permanent displays from its collection until the project is finished due to a lack of space as well as security concerns.

In 2015, the culture ministry confirmed that twenty-seven artworks were stolen from the museum. After the works were successfully recovered they were put on display at a gallery in Tehran to assure the public of their safe return.

Speaking of the museum’s heightened security, Amir Rad, director of the new media center, said, “The museum vault is like a large box that is very safe. The bureaucracy seen in everyday dealings in Iran is even more intense at the museum. Removing or bringing in any work of art from the museum requires several rounds of communication and numerous permits. I think the vault is an untouched treasury.”