The royal family of Iran has roots in southern Connecticut, and Farah Diba Pahlavi, the widow of the late Shah of Iran and ...

In summer 1979, the then-ailing, recently deposed Shah of Iran bought a 12-room house on South Street for $250,000.

Hovering between a hostage situation and a buddy comedy, Mosaic's "Andy Warhol in Iran" cleverly connects art and politics.

And Warhol's portrait of the former queen of Iran was too political. In fact, Pahlavi's portrait was vandalised and torn apart with a knife during the revolutionary turmoil.

He was editor of Warhol's Interview magazine from 1971 to 1983, and became actively involved in all aspects of life — business and social — at The ... Fereydoon Hoveyda, and he actually arranged for ...

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef (More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct an untitled feature film project centered on the life of Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran ...

From abstract expressionism to pop art, the collection at the museum serves as a time capsule of pivotal artistic movements. Among the artwork is Warhol's portrait of Farah Pahlavi - Iran's last ...

The government of Iran’s Western-backed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife, the former Empress Farah Pahlavi, built the museum and acquired the vast collection in the late 1970s, when oil ...