Culture Takes Shape
Caption
Twelve cultural milestones, 1930 to 1977: a heritage law, a university, a national museum, radio, television, the Shiraz Arts Festival and more.
Which one would you like to see in a full thread?
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Short takes
At the 1971 Shiraz Arts Festival, Peter Brook staged Orghast at Persepolis and Naqsh-e Rostam, with a text by Ted Hughes in an invented language alongside Greek and Avestan. The cast came from many countries.
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In 1969 Abbas Kiarostami helped set up the film department of Kanoon, the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. His first short film there, Bread and Alley, came out in 1970.
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Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, opened in 1977 and designed by Kamran Diba, holds works by Pollock, Warhol, Picasso and Bacon. The building spirals underground.
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