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    IN THE FIELDS OF EMPTY DAYS

    Jul 01, 2018 3 minutes
    JENNIFER S. LI

    A catalog essay accompanying the exhibition “In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art” cites Edmund Burke’s oft-repeated aphorism: “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” But, if the 125 works in the exhibition are any indication, it seems that Iranian artists who know their modern history—which is a complicated one, burrowed deep in the cultural psyche, beginning

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