An Iranian Artist Recalls Her Life in New York and Tehran
The 91-year-old Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian misses New York, where she lived in the late '40s and into the '50s and again after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She returned to Tehran ten years ago, to reopen her art studio after her self-imposed exile in New York. It's a place where, as she put it in her memoir, “the earth smells so good after a rain.”