The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art

I said farewell to the Empress and her court in 1977, but more than forty years later I remain haunted by my memories of the sights and smells of Iran, as well as the immense kindness and occasional small-mindedness of its vivacious people. It is now time to tell the story of the complementary goals of two women of the same generation from very different cultures-an Iranian Empress who was a pioneering art patron and an adventurous American art curator. As the Empress told me in 1990 in the...